SEAN DORSEY DANCE

As a transgender, white, disabled/Hard-of-hearing and queer longtime social practice artist, Dorsey creates his works over 2-3 years in deep relationship with/in community. Dorsey's dances are powerful explorations of human experience - a fusion of full-throttle dance, luscious partnering, intimate storytelling and theater. Highly physical, accessible, rooted in story, and danced with precision and guts and deep humanity, Dorsey's works have been praised as "exquisite…poignant and important" (BalletTanz), "trailblazing" (San Francisco Chronicle) and "evocative, compelling, elegant"... As a teaching artist, Dorsey leads workshops, classes and DREAM LABS with a trans-positive pedagogy - and centers and celebrates gender non-conforming and trans bodies, voices and aesthetics... Sean Dorsey (he/him) 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..

Primary location: San Francisco United States