• Home
  • Editors’ Picks
  • Dancer Spotlight
  • Health & Body
  • Career Advice
  • Training
  • Videos
  • Giveaways
  • Guides & Resources
  • Advice for Dancers
  • Auditions
  • Dance Magazine Awards
  • News
  • Rant & Rave
  • Dance & Science
  • Breaking Stereotypes
  • What Wendy's Watching
  • What Dancers Eat
  • Pop Culture
  • In The Studio
  • Dancer Voices
  • Dance As Activism
  • Style & Beauty
  • 25 to Watch
  • Dance History
  • Cover Story
  • The Creative Process
  • Broadway
  • In Memoriam
  • Playlists
  • Spotlight
  • Dance Magazine Video Contest Winners
  • Sponsored by Harlequin Floors
  • We Tried It
  • Day in the Life
  • Sponsored by McCallum Theatre
  • Sponsored by Boston Conservatory at Berklee
  • Sponsored by USC Glorya Kaufman School of Dance
  • Sponsored by University of Arizona
  • Sponsored by NYCDA
  • Sponsored by Hong Kong Dance Company
  • Log in
News News
Dance As Activism
Broadway
Pop Culture
Breaking Stereotypes
Rant & Rave
Career Career
Training
Career Advice
Health & Body
Auditions
Style & Beauty
Guides Guides
Virtual Dance Opportunities
College Guide
Auditions
Performance Calendar
Dance Annual Directory
Summer Study Guide
Other Guides & Resources
More More
Advertise
Dance Magazine Awards
Dance Media Foundation
Contact Us
Buy a Single Issue
Meet the Editors
Friday Film Break
SubscribeSubscribe
Change Privacy Settings
Sean Dorsey

Sean Dorsey is an award-winning San Francisco-based choreographer, dancer and writer. Recognized as the U.S.' first acclaimed transgender modern dance choreographer, 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.

Dorsey's dances are powerful explorations of human experience. His works are 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" (LA Weekly).

Dorsey has been awarded major support by the National Endowment for the Arts, National Dance Project, New England Foundation for the Arts, National Performance Network, Creative Work Fund, Kenneth Rainin Foundation, Phyllis C. Wattis Foundation, and commissions from Bates Dance Festival, Dance Place (Washington DC), Queer Cultural Center (San Francisco), The Theater Offensive (Boston), 7 Stages (Atlanta), Maui Arts & Cultural Center (Maui), Links Hall (Chicago), and Highways Performance Space (Los Angeles), Wallace Alexander Gerbode Foundation, William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, San Francisco Arts Commission and James Irvine Foundation.

Dorsey's most recent evening-length dances are a trilogy of works exploring our contemporary relationships to censored, buried or forgotten parts of LGBT history: THE MISSING GENERATION (2015), The Secret History Of Love (2013), and Uncovered: The Diary Project (2010).

Follow Unfollow Following
Sean Dorsey
Feb 17, 2018

"I Choreograph Because My Own Story is Untold; I Need to Dance it Into Being"

Don't miss a thing.
Sign up for our newsletter.
Subscribe