Sean Dorsey is an award-winning choreographer, dancer and writer. Recognized as the U.S.’ first out transgender modern dance choreographer, Dorsey has won audiences and accolades from San Francisco to New York with his powerful dance-theater.

Dorsey’s acclaimed work is a fusion of post/modern-dance, storytelling and theater. Praised as “exquisite” (BalletTanz), “trailblazing” (San Francisco Chronicle), “epic…powerful” (Miami Herald), Dorsey has gained national attention for his highly-physical, articulate, deeply moving work.

Dorsey was named “San Francisco’s Best Dance/Performance Company” (SF Weekly) and was named in the nation’s “Top 25 to Watch” by Dance Magazine. He has been awarded two Isadora Duncan Dance Awards and the Goldie Award for Performance. Dorsey been praised as one of the ‘Top Ten’ San Francisco dance artists by both the San Francisco Bay Guardian and the Bay Area Reporter. He was recently named one of San Francisco’s most “influential visionaries” by San Francisco Magazine.

Dorsey has been profiled on PBS-TV, NPR-radio, BalletTanz, Time Out New York, American Theater Magazine, OUT Magazine, The Advocate, San Francisco Chronicle, SF Weekly, Miami Herald, LA Weekly, LA’s Fight Magazine, Boston’s Bay Windows, New York’s Dance Insider, Curve Magazine and many other publications.

Dorsey has been awarded major commissions by the New England Foundation for the Arts, National Dance Project, National Performance Network, Creative Work Fund, Wallace Alexander Gerbode Foundation, William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, San Francisco Arts Commission, Queer Cultural Center (San Francisco), The Theater Offensive (Boston), Links Hall (Chicago), and Highways Performance Space (Santa Monica / L.A.).

Dorsey has collaborated with artists including the Wachowskis (Directors, The Matrix, Cloud Atlas), international music sensation Antony Hegard of Antony and the Johnsons and Kate Bornstein.

Dorsey’s new concert The Secret History Of Love received major commissions from the New England Foundation for the Arts, National Dance Project, National Performance Network, the Queer Cultural Center (San Francisco), The Theater Offensive (Boston), Links Hall (Chicago), the Creative Work Fund and the San Francisco Arts Commission.

Dorsey is the founder and Artistic Director of Fresh Meat Productions, the nation’s first organization to create and present year-round transgender arts programs. Fresh Meat’s programs include the outrageously popular annual Fresh Meat Festival of transgender and queer performance, Sean Dorsey Dance’s local and touring performances and media arts events.

THE SECRET HISTORY OF LOVE:

The Secret History Of Love is an evening-length suite of dances that reveals the underground ways that LGBT people managed to survive and love one another in decades past. The Secret History Of Love was created during a 2-year national LGBT Elders Oral History Project. The voices and life stories of LGBT seniors that Dorsey recorded are heard and seen onstage. The Secret History Of Love employs full-bodied post/modern-dance, riveting storytelling, oral history interviews, physical theater and original music. An inter-generational cast of 5 dancer-performers embody these historic narratives – expressing intimate accounts of violence, first love, risk, loss and enduring relationships. The audience is immersed in a multi-layered soundscore featuring multiple voices, life stories, sounds and original music. The first work of its kind in the U.S., The Secret History Of Love received major national commissions and will tour to cities including Boston, Chicago, New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Miami, Santa Cruz, Chico, Claremont, Philadelphia and San Antonio. Please contact us with booking inquiries. Read more about the show or join our email list.

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WHAT THE PRESS ARE SAYING:

“epic…powerful, moving, hilarious”
 - Miami Herald

“evocative, often dreamlike…compelling, elegant”
 - LA Weekly

“wonderfully imaginative and powerful”
 - The Advocate

“breathtaking beauty”
 - San Francisco Bay Times

“deeply felt, splendidly shaped…aches with beauty and grief”
 - San Francisco Bay Guardian

“boundlessly gifted…flawless dance”
 - Bay Area Reporter

“trailblazing…powerful”
 - Boston Bay Windows

“inspired…charming, chilling, heart-rending”
 - Miami Sun Post

“an artistic force to be reckoned with”
 - SF Weekly

“I can’t remember the last time I saw so much tenderness, romanticism, delicacy of feeling, tentative grace, truth of gesture, human longings for loyalty, affection, and abiding relationship surrounded by such claims to be shocking, bold, futurist, subversive.”
 - DanceView Times

“I’m an elder of the transgender community, and Sean Dorsey is my pride and joy. His sensitivity to the pain that comes with transformation is as compassionate as any Zen master’s. His deadpan comic timing, his skill at seduction, his charm and boyish sexiness all make us – his audience – love him all the more. Dorsey choreographs and performs…with a skill that rivals Mark Morris.”
 - Kate Bornstein