By Sean Dorsey Dance

April 30: Chico, CA
May 6: San Jose, CA
June 27-19: Florida Dance Festival (Tampa, FL)
July 11-14: Jump-Start (San Antonio, TX)

After sold-out audiences and standing ovations in San Francisco, Boston, Miami, Chicago, Los Angeles, Santa Cruz and Whitewater, The Secret History Of Love continues its 20-city national tour. Don’t miss this opportunity to see the award-winning work of Sean Dorsey Dance! Contact us with booking inquiries. Follow us as we tour: Join our email list.

The Secret History Of Love reveals the underground ways that LGBT people managed to survive and love each other in decades past. 1920′s speakeasies, wartime love affairs, police raids and steamy underground cabarets explode onstage in this powerful work by transgender trailblazer Sean Dorsey.

 Dorsey created The Secret History Of Love through a 2-year LGBT Elders Oral History Project. The Secret History Of Love features the voices and life stories Dorsey recorded in these oral history interviews – along with powerful, moving and hilarious episodes from the LGBT community’s remarkable history of finding love and community, against enormous odds.

The Secret History Of Love features full-throttle dancing, riveting storytelling, luscious partnering and first-hand tales of tremendous risk, passionate love, impossible courage, heart-breaking loss, and bold resistance –revealing the great resiliency and strength of the human heart … even in the face of great danger and devastating violence.

The Secret History Of Love features a stellar cast of performers: Sean Dorsey, Juan De La Rosa, Brian Fisher, Nol Simonse and special musical guest Shawna Virago.

The Secret History Of Love features original music by Jesse Olsen Bay, Storm Miguel Florez, Alex Kelly, Ben Kessler, Jeffrey Alphonsus Mooney and Ramon and Jessica. Lighting Design: Clyde Sheets. Costume Design: Tiffany Amundson. Sound Engineering and Mixing: Laura Dean. Technical Direction: Emily Paulson.

The Secret History Of Love is available for tour bookings in 2013, 2014 and 2015: tours include a range of Community Engagement Residency activities. Please contact us with booking inquiries.

Sean Dorsey Dance is the resident dance company of Fresh Meat Productions. Fresh Meat Productions is a dynamic San Francisco arts organization that creates, presents and tours year-round transgender arts programs. Founded in 2002, Fresh Meat Productions’ programs include Sean Dorsey Dance, the popular annual Fresh Meat Festival of transgender and queer performance, and media arts events. Learn more at www.freshmeatproductions.org.

With his signature fusion of modern dance, storytelling and theater, Sean Dorsey is blazing a trail celebrated by critics and sold-out audiences alike. As the nation’s first transgender modern dance choreographer, Dorsey has been named “San Francisco’s Best Dance-Performance Company” (SF Weekly) and named in the nation’s “Top 25 to Watch” by Dance Magazine. Dorsey has been awarded two Isadora Duncan Dance Awards, the Goldie Award for Performance, national commissions, and praise from New York to Los Angeles.

Read more about Sean Dorsey.

The Secret History Of Love is presented by Fresh Meat Productions and was created with generous support from the Queer Cultural Center, The New England Foundation for the Arts’ National Dance Project (with lead funding from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and additional funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation), the Creative Work Fund (a program of the Walter and Elise Haas Fund supported by generous grants from The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation and The James Irvine Foundation), the National Performance Network’s Creation Fund and Performance Residencies, the San Francisco Arts Commission, The Theater Offensive (Boston), and Links Hall (Chicago).

12th annual transgender and queer performance festival
June 20-22, 2013

The FRESH MEAT FESTIVAL is the nation’s premiere transgender and queer performance festival. Outrageously popular, artistically outstanding, and always delicious, advance tickets are recommended for this popular event.

Don’t miss this 3-nights-only event (advance tickets recommended). A gala reception with DJ Miz Rowdy, photo booth, drinks and dancing follows the show each night.

Special guests top a spectacular lineup including AXIS Dance Company, the Barbary Coast Cloggers, Coyote Grace, Sean Dorsey Dance, Allan Frias / Mind Over Matter, Jodaiko, Las Bomberas de la Bahia, Dana Morrigan, Shawna Virago and more! All artists perform every night.

Video Trailer from The 2012 Fresh Meat Festival

By Sean Dorsey Dance

ON TOUR NOW! After sold-out audiences and standing ovations in San Francisco, Boston, Miami, Chicago, Los Angeles, Santa Cruz and Whitewater, The Secret History Of Love continues its 20-city national tour. Don’t miss this opportunity to see the award-winning work of Sean Dorsey Dance! Follow us as we tour: Join our email list or contact us with booking inquiries.

Read more about The Secret History Of Love.