ALL LEVELS
TRANS-FRIENDLY DANCE CLASS
with Sean Dorsey Dance (SF)
ALWAYS WANTED TO DANCE BUT…
DIDN’T FEEL COMFORTABLE TRYING BECAUSE YOU ARE TRANSGENDER, NON-BINARY OR LGBQI2S+?
TERRIFIED BEGINNERS WELCOME! This all-levels, super-friendly workshop led by transgender choreographer Sean Dorsey and his all-queer/gender-nonconforming/non-binary company will lead us through mindful breathing, meditation, a gentle warmup, movement exercises … and then creative self-expression through movement! For ALL levels – including terrified “non-dancers”!
Please join us for this super-friendly and welcoming workshop (especially if you’re terrified!).
PLEASE WEAR COMFORTABLE CLOTHING that you can move in. We will be barefoot, and we will sometimes be sitting or lying on the floor. We will provide all-gender bathrooms and changing areas. All ages, all bodies, all levels, all welcome! There will be no touch involved.
Wheelchair accessible venue, workshop area and bathrooms. All-gender bathroom /changing room available.
Please come a bit early to change clothes or find the space.
THIS WORKSHOP is part of Sean Dorsey Dance’s week-long residency at Velocity Dance Center: don’t miss our performances of THE LOST ART OF DREAMING (March 2-5 at 12th Avenue Arts, Seattle)!
KN95 Masks are required to be worn by all participants and facilitators at all times during this workshop. Please bring your own, or we will provide one for you.
TEACHER BIO
Sean Dorsey (he/him) is a San Francisco-based transgender choreographer, dancer, writer, teaching artist and cultural activist. Dorsey has toured his work to more than 30 cities across the US and abroad – and taught with his explicitly trans-positive pedagogy in more than 35 cities.
Dorsey is a 2020 Doris Duke Artist and an inaugural Dance/USA Artist Fellow. He has been awarded five Isadora Duncan Dance Awards and the Goldie Award for Performance. In 2009, Dorsey was named in Dance Magazine’s “25 To Watch;” in 2019, he became the first openly-transgender person on the cover of Dance Magazine.
A 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” (LA Weekly).
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.
Dorsey is also the founding Artistic Director of Fresh Meat Productions: Fresh Meat Productions invests in the creative expression and cultural leadership of transgender and gender-nonconforming communities. We create and commission new work, present performing arts programs, conduct education and engagement, and advocate for intersectional justice and equity in the Arts.
ACCESS INFORMATION
KN95 Masks are required for all participants at all times during this workshop. 12th Avenue Arts is fully accessible for wheelchairs and walkers. The lobby and bathrooms are at street level, and seating is available without the need for an elevator or stairs.
For access needs, contact us at operations@velocitydancecenter.org so that we can prepare with you.