Sean Dorsey: The Missing Generation

May 4, 2018 @ 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm

SEAN DORSEY: THE MISSING GENERATION
In partnership with Three Dollar Bill Cinema’s Translations 2018: Seattle Transgender Film Festival
MAR 3–6, 2018 / 7:30PM
Velocity 1621 12th Ave
$20 ($25 at the door) / $17 Velocity + TDBC Members + / $15 under 25 (w/ ID) / $50 Patron

In partnership with Three Dollar Bill Cinema’s Translations: Seattle Transgender Film Festival, Velocity presents Sean Dorsey Dance’s THE MISSING GENERATION. THE MISSING GENERATION is a dance-theater work giving voice to longtime survivors of the early AIDS epidemic. It is “a love letter to a forgotten generation of survivors—those who witnessed and experienced the loss of part of an entire generation of gay and transgender people to AIDS in the 1980s and 1990s.”

Dorsey traveled to six US cities over two years, where he recorded oral history interviews with longtime survivors of the early epidemic, hosted community residencies and conducted archival research. With a team of composers, he then created a lush multi-layered soundscore featuring the voices and remarkable real-life stories recorded in these interviews. THE MISSING GENERATION features full-throttle dancing, luscious partnering, intimate storytelling and theater, performed by a multi-generational ensemble of dancers.

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“Heartbreakingly beautiful—a dance portrait of contemporary LGBT history that is profoundly relevant to all generations.”—SF Bay Times

“gut-wrenching, heart-breaking, and spirit-lifting”—Portland Sun Journal

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ABOUT THE ARTIST
Sean Dorsey is an award-winning San Francisco-based choreographer, dancer, and writer. Recognized as the first acclaimed transgender modern dance choreographer in the US, Dorsey has toured his work to 26 US cities. Dorsey has been awarded four Isadora Duncan Dance Awards and the Goldie Award for Performance. He has been named in Dance Magazine’s 25 To Watch and named “San Francisco’s Best Dance Company” (SF Weekly). Most recently, Dorsey was named in American Theater Magazine as a Top Theater Artist To Watch.

Details

Date:: May 4, 2018
Time:: 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Website:: https://www.facebook.com/events/577904099228862

Venue

: Velocity Dance Center
: 1621 12th Ave
Seattle, 98122 United States

Organizer

: Three Dollar Bill Cinema

About the Author: Michael Strangeways

As the Editorial Director/Co-Owner, Michael Strangeways writes, edits and does about a million other jobs for Seattle Gay Scene, Puget Sound's most visited LGBTQ news, arts and entertainment website now celebrating its 14th year as a media outlet. A semi-proud Midwesterner by birth, he's lived in Seattle since 2000. He's also a film producer who would like you to check out the Jinkx Monsoon documentary, "Drag Becomes Him" now available on Amazon.com. In his spare time, he gets slightly obsessive about his love for old movies, challenging theater, "otters", vodka, chocolate, "I,Claudius", Lizzie Borden, real books made out of paper, disaster films, show tunes, Weimar era Germany, flea markets, pop surrealistic art, the sex lives of Hollywood actors both living and dead, kitties, chicken fried steak, haute couture and David Bowie. But, not necessarily in that order.