Sean Dorsey Dance's 20th Anniversary Home Season - BACK BY AUDIENCE DEMAND!

*KN95 Masks provided & required for show AND post-show lobby

*KN95 Masks provided & required for show AND post-show lobby

*KN95 Masks provided & required for show AND post-show lobby

BACK BY AUDIENCE DEMAND for ONE WEEKEND ONLY! Celebrate two decades of groundbreaking artistry at Sean Dorsey Dance’s 20th Anniversary Home Season (April 11-13 at Dance Mission Theater, SF). For the first time in Sean Dorsey Dance’s history, the company will revisit and perform excerpts of audiences favorites from the last 20 years.

ASL interpretation will be provided at the Sunday April 13 4pm performance.

Sean Dorsey Dance will perform a powerful retrospective program featuring two decades of their award-winning trans and queer artistry — with works including (2009) based on the lifelong diaries of trailblazing trans activist Lou Sullivan; and excerpts from (2015) and (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.

KN95 Masks will be provided & required for this event.

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 Director: Emily Paulson; Assistant Stage Manager Jessi Barber; Sound Operator Jules Indelicato. Original music composed by: Jesse Olsen Bay, Anomie Belle, StormMiguel Florez, 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; and a Sean Dorsey Dance photobooth!

Tickets for this Anniversary event will sell quickly: advance tickets are recommended.

ACCESS INFORMATION:

• Dance Mission Theater's entrance, lobby, bathrooms and audience seating areas are all wheelchair accessible. Please note there is an elevator from the ground floor entrance to the lobby and theater.
• The front row of theater seats are at floor level; all other rows of seating are on risers and require climbing stairs. The front row will be reserved for accessible seating, wheelchair users, and mobility-device users.
• All audience seats are armless chairs.
• If you need to reserve accessible seating, please email us at [email protected]. Please specify your access need (eg. if you’re a wheelchair user coming with one companion; if you have mobility access needs and need two front-row seats; if you need to be seated in the ASL seating area for Sunday’s ASL-interpreted performance).
• Dance Mission Theater's bathrooms are all-gender.
• There will be no strobing or rapidly changing lights at this performance.
• All ages are welcomed. This performance has no nudity, but does have some mature language and mature themes.
• Identification (ID) is not required to purchase or pick up tickets.

COVID SAFETY PROTOCOLS FOR THIS EVENT:

• Please note that this show requires all attendees to wear a KN95 mask at all times while in the building. Sean Dorsey Dance staff will provide KN95 masks to everyone before they enter the building.
• By attending the 20th Anniversary Home Season, you agree to the following:
• You do not have any signs of contagious illness (COVID or otherwise), including pink eye, that aren’t fully explained by a non-contagious health condition that you have
• If you have had COVID, it’s been at least 10 days since your first symptoms or positive test if you were asymptomatic.

Special Thanks to our Lead Community Partners:
The GLBT Historical Society and The Transgender District.

Thank you to all of our other Community Partners as well!
AXIS Dance Company; Community United Against Violence; El/La Para Trans Latinas; LYRIC Center for LGBTQ+ Youth; Openhouse; San Francisco Trans Film Festival; San Francisco AIDS Foundation; Sins Invalid; San Francisco LGBT Center; TRANS:THRIVE

ASL interpreters were coordinated through Urban Jazz Dance Company’s Access Services

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Dance Mission Theater, 3316 24th Street, San Francisco, United States