The Missing Generation is a new dance-theater work that gives voice to longtime survivors of the early AIDS epidemic. This powerful show delivers 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. Trailblazing transgender choreographer Sean Dorsey created the work over a 2-year period by conducting oral history interviews with survivors of the early AIDS epidemic, doing archival research and hosting Community Residencies in 6 cities across the US. Dorsey brings the work to Dance Place on Saturday, April 2 at 8pm and Sunday, April 3 at 7pm as part of a week-long residency including community master classes and workshops.
The Missing Generation features full-throttle dance, luscious partnering, intimate storytelling and theater – performed by Dorsey’s stellar, multi-generational ensemble of dancers: Sean Dorsey, Brian Fisher, ArVejon Jones and Nol Simonse. Dorsey created a lush multi-layered soundscore featuring the voices and remarkable real-life stories recorded in these oral history interviews, Dorsey’s own writing and original music from a stellar team of composers: Alex Kelly, Jesse Olsen Bay, Ben Kessler and Jeffrey Alphonsus Mooney.
From 2015-2017, The Missing Generation will tour to 20 cities across the US while facilitating week-long Community Residencies in each city. The DC residency features community conversations; Master Class at Dance Place on March 30; free trans-friendly dance workshop; “Dance Your Story” self-expression workshops for LGBTQ people and people living with HIV/AIDS at The DC Center for the LGBT Community on March 31.
About Sean Dorsey
Sean Dorsey is an award-winning San Francisco-based choreographer, dancer and writer. Recognized as the US’s first acclaimed transgender modern dance choreographer, Dorsey has won audiences and accolades from San Francisco to New York with his powerful dance-theater.
Dorsey was named in Dance Magazine’s 25 To Watch and named “San Francisco’s Best Dance Company” (SF Weekly). He has been awarded three Isadora Duncan Dance Awards and the Goldie Award for Performance. Most recently, he 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 toured his work to over 25 US cities.
WHAT: Sean Dorsey Dance
WHEN: Saturday, April 2 at 8pm and Sunday, April 3 at 7pm
WHERE: Dance Place, 3225 8th Street NE, Washington, DC 20017; two blocks from Redline Brookland/CUA Metro station; free and convenient parking
TICKETS: $30 Admission At the Door; $25 Admission (Advance Sales only)*; $20 Dance Place Members, Seniors (55+), Artists and Veterans (Advance Sales only)*; $15 College Students and Children (17 & under)
*Advance Sales end 4 hours prior to performance start time.
To purchase tickets, visit danceplace.org or call 202.269.160
