Sean Dorsey Dance's 20th Anniversary Home Season
-- SEPTEMBER 19-21, 2014 (Z Space, SF)
-- TICKETS/INFO: seandorseydance.com/20thAnniversary/
ONE WEEKEND ONLY! Celebrate two decades of groundbreaking artistry at Sean Dorsey Dance’s 20th Anniversary Home Season (September 19-21 at Z Space, SF). For the first time in Sean Dorsey Dance’s entire history, the company will revisit and perform excerpts of audiences favorites from the last 20 years.
Sean Dorsey Dance will perform a powerful retrospective program featuring two decades of their award-winning artistry - with works including Lou (2009) based on the lifelong diaries of pioneering trans activist Lou Sullivan; and excerpts from The Missing Generation (2015) and The Secret History of Love (2012), both based on oral histories Dorsey recorded with LGBTQI+ elders across the US. These 3 works comprised an award-winning trilogy that the company performed and toured to more than 25 cities across the US.
These dances are powerful explorations of human experience - featuring Dorsey’s signature fusion of full-throttle dance, luscious queer partnering, theater and intimate storytelling. Highly physical, accessible, rooted in story, and danced with precision and guts and deep humanity, Dorsey’s work has boldly created new space for trans and queer voices, bodies and stories in contemporary dance.
Sean Dorsey Dance’s 20th Anniversary Home Season is performed by: Becca Dean, Sean Dorsey, Brandon Graham, Héctor Jaime, and David Le. Lighting Design: Clyde Sheets. Costume Design: Krystal Harfert and Tiffany Amundson. Technical Direction: Emily Paulson. Original music composed by: Jesse Olsen Bay, Anomie Belle, StormMiguel Florez, Frida Ibarra, Alex Kelly, and Ben Kessler.
Our special 20th Anniversary lobby experience includes: a retrospective photo exhibition of photos of Sean Dorsey Dance by Lydia Daniller and Kegan Marling; a gigantic love letter to Sean Dorsey Dance for audiences to sign; limited edition Sean Dorsey Dance merch; photobooth and DJ!
Plus: Saturday September 21 performance includes a special post-show Gala reception and champagne toast with Artistic Director Sean Dorsey - a transgender trailblazer and internationally-celebrated artist.
ACCESS NOTES / KN95 MASKING:
- ASL interpretation provided at Friday September 20 performance;
- Z Space is wheelchair accessible and has all-gender bathrooms;
- KN95 masks provided & required for performances; masks optional for post-show receptions.
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ABOUT SEAN DORSEY:
Sean Dorsey is an Emmy award-winning choreographer, dancer, writer, educator and activist. Long recognized as the U.S.’ first acclaimed transgender modern dance choreographer, Dorsey has toured his work to more than 35 cities across the US and internationally - and taught with his explicitly trans-positive pedagogy in more than 40 cities.
Dorsey is a Doris Duke Artist, a United States Artists Fellow, and a Dance/USA Artist Fellow. He has been awarded an Emmy Award, five Isadora Duncan Dance Awards, and the Goldie Award for Performance. In 2019, he became the first openly-transgender person on the cover of Dance Magazine. Dorsey is the first openly-transgender US artist to be presented by The Joyce Theater (NYC), American Dance Festival, and many other major stages.
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VIDEO CREDITS:
Original music composed for Sean Dorsey Dance by: Alex Kelly, then Frida Ibarra
Footage: RAPT Productions, plus additional archival footage from Andy Mogg
Sean Dorsey Dance - Dancers (in order of appearance):
Juan De La Rosa, Brian Fisher, Nol Simonse, Sean Dorsey, ArVejon Jones, Héctor Jaime, Brandon Graham, Will Woodward, David Le, Mair Culbreth, Courtney Moreno.
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