Transgender Dancer Sean Dorsey Dreams of a Limitless Future for Trans and Queer Community
- Director: Lindsay Gauthier
- Writer: Sean Dorsey, Lindsay Gauthier, Kelly Whalen
- Producer: Lindsay Gauthier, Masha Pershay, Kelly Whalen
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Question: Are the audiences coming to see trans-people or dancers?
This kind of exclusivity has to raise difficult questions.
Trailer...
The(ir) Blurb...
As a modern dance choreographer and as a transgender person, Sean Dorsey felt irresistibly drawn to San Francisco with its history of trans and queer resistance and culture. But the city he moved to in the early 2000s was not the city he had envisioned. He discovered he was the only openly trans modern dancer and no one was putting trans artists on stage. Dorsey spent the next two decades championing trans and queer performing arts in the city, hand in hand with his life partner, the musician, filmmaker and transgender activist Shawna Virago. Their Fresh Meat Festival is in its 21st season of showcasing trans and queer performance; Sean Dorsey Dance has toured innovative modern dance to more than 30 cities in the U.S. and abroad; and accolades have arrived in the form of prestigious national awards, commissions and grants.
Cast & Characters
Sean Dorsey (as Self - Transgender Choreographer)
Héctor Jaime (as Self - Dancer)
Nol Simonse (as Self - Dancer)
Will Woodward (as Self - Dancer)
Brian Fisher (as Self - Dancer)
Shawna Virago (as Self - Trans folk / punk singer / songwriter)