PRESS ROOM

FRESH MEAT IN THE PRESS: 2002-2008


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PRESS QUOTES

Photo by Lydia Daniller 
"history in the making"
(Bay Area Reporter)

"outstanding…joyful…irreverent"
(Critical Dance)

"fierce and fine-tuned"
(Bay Area Reporter)

"This annual Queer Arts Festival favorite [Fresh Meat] is one of San Francisco's most entertaining and eclectic events - made all the cooler because the artists push transgender and queer performance boundaries to the limits."
(San Francisco Bay Guardian)

Photo by Lydia Daniller 
"the extremely popular trans and queer cabaret was all about creating, and delighting in, the sheer good art that can come out of queer tensions."
(San Francisco Bay Guardian)

"securing its place in history as a springboard of the interdisciplinary revolution"
(Bay Area Reporter)

"wildly popular … a dizzying lineup of performances, from aerialist feats to homo hip hop and straight, er, traditional theater, each with its own take on gender"
(SF Weekly)


Photo by Andrea Flores 
"exquisite…poignant and important"
(BalletTanz)

"trailblazing"
(San Francisco Chronicle)

"breathtaking…tearjerking and hilarious"
(San Francisco Bay Guardian)

"boundlessly gifted … flawless dance"
(Bay Area Reporter)

"among the most profound dances to be seen around here"
(DanceView Times)

"intelligent and evocative"
(In Dance)

"stunning dance"
(SF Bay Times)

"Dorsey's intelligent and evocative work helps build a frame of reference to enable viewers to experience dance outside of gender. At the same time, Dorsey is helping create a movement vocabulary to signal a newly gendered body. These conscious choices form an important contribution to the process of queering modern dance."
(Critical Dance)

Read more about Artistic Director Sean Dorsey.