We met our IndieGoGo Fundraising Goal for The Secret History Of Love! who made a tax-deductible donation on IndieGoGo and raised $7500 for Sean Dorsey Dance’s all-new show The Secret History Of Love! |
| THE FRESH MEAT FESTIVAL 11th annual transgender and queer performance festival |
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Emily Vasquez (American Idol, The Glee Project) International drag sensation Miss Barbie-Q! “San Francisco’s Best Dance Company” (SF Weekly) Sean Dorsey Dance Gravity-defying trapeze by Cohdi Harrell Americana hero StormMiguel Florez Saucy standup by Natasha Muse Folk seductress Shawna Virago Tenacious taiko by Taiko Ren …and more! SAVE THE DATE! The Fresh Meat Festival is the nation’s premiere transgender and queer performance festival. Outrageously popular, artistically outstanding, and always delicious, advance tickets are recommended for this very popular event. After 10 years of sold-to-capacity audiences, the Fresh Meat Festival moves to an even larger venue this year: the gorgeous art-deco Brava Theater! To celebrate the big move, the Fresh Meat Festival has proudly commissioned a world-premiere collaboration by America’s Best Dance Crew superstars Dashaun Williams and Prince Jor-el Rios of VOGUE EVOLUTION and EMILY VASQUEZ of Glee Project and American Idol fame! And the hot cherry on top of this year’s star-studded Festival? An exclusive performance by international drag sensation MISS BARBIE-Q! Advance tickets are recommended for this 3-nights-only engagement. A gala reception follows the show each night featuring DJ Miz Rowdy, photo booth, refreshments and more! Special guests top a spectacular lineup including Dashaun and Prince from Vogue Evolution (New York), Willem DeVries and Michael Walker (Los Angeles), Sean Dorsey Dance, Shawna Virago, Cohdi Harrell (New Mexico), StormMiguel Florez, Natasha Muse and Taiko Ren! Fresh Meat Productions builds community through the arts by creating, presenting and touring year-round transgender arts programs. We are the first and only organization of our kind in the nation. Fresh Meat’s programs include the annual Fresh Meat Festival of transgender and queer performance, Sean Dorsey Dance’s local and touring performances, and media arts events. Founded by Artistic Director Sean Dorsey, Fresh Meat Productions celebrates our Eleventh Season this year! |
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Now accepting tour inquiries and bookings for 2012-2014: contact us for information.
| Dates: | August 2012 |
| Location: | Highways Performance Space 1651 18th Street Santa Monica, CA 90404 [map] |
| Event at: | TBA |
The Secret History Of Love is a new full-length production from award-winning Sean Dorsey Dance (named “San Francisco’s Best Dance/Performance Company” – SF Weekly). Through full-bodied dance, theater and storytelling, the show uncovers the ways that queer and transgender people managed to find – and love – each other in decades past. Secret love affairs, the history of outlawing love and the underground ways that transgender and queer people found each other through the decades are revealed in these powerful dances.
The show is the culmination of a two-year community research process, in which Dorsey conducted extensive archival research and recorded oral history interviews with LGBTQ elders. From 1920s speakeasies to outrageous 1940s love affairs, from police raids to passionate love letters, from Personals to the Internet, the “love that dared not speak its name” emerges from buried history and explodes onstage in these full-bodied dances. Read more about the show…
The Secret History Of Love features a stellar cast of dancers and performers: Juan De La Rosa, Sean Dorsey, Brian Fisher, NolSimonse and Shawna Virago. Original music by Jesse Olsen Bay, Alex Kelly, Ben Kessler, Jeffrey Alphonsus Mooney and Keith Kenniff; Sound Engineering by Laura Dean; Lighting Design by Clyde Sheets; Costume Design by Tiffany Amundson; Production Assistance by Marisa Mariscotti.
Tours are currently scheduled in Boston, Miami, Santa Cruz, Los Angeles, Chicago, Whitewater Wisconsin, Philadelphia, San Antonio, Chico, San Jose and Claremont. We welcome your inquiries for tour bookings during the 2012, 2013 and 2014 seasons.
The Secret History Of Love is being created with generous support from the Queer Cultural Center, the Creative Work Fund (a program of the Walter and Elise Haas Fund supported by generous grants from The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation and The James Irvine Foundation), the San Francisco Arts Commission, the National Performance Network’s Creation Fund, The Theater Offensive (Boston), Links Hall (Chicago) and The New England Foundation for the Arts’ National Dance Project (with lead funding from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and additional funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation).
| SAN FRANCISCO (world premiere, Dance Mission Theater) | March 29-April 1, 2012 |
| SANTA CRUZ, CA The Secret History Of Love in Santa Cruz is being sponsored by: the Cantú Queer Center at UCSC, C.A.R.E. Council, Porter College, Latin American and Latino Studies, Blender Student Organization, Kresge College Provost, Crown College Provost, Cowell College, Literature Department. |
May 5, 2012 |
| MIAMI, FL | May 12, 2012 |
| BOSTON, MA (The Theater Offensive) | May 17-19, 2012 |
| SANTA MONICA, CA (Highways Performance Space) | August 2012 |
| CHICAGO, IL (Links Hall) | October 25-27, 2012 |
| WHITEWATER, WI (University of Wisconsin) | October 30, 2012 |
| PHILADELPHIA, PA (The Painted Bride) | 2013 |
| SAN ANTONIO, TX (Jumpstart) | 2013 |
| CHICO, CA | 2013 |
| CLAREMONT, CA | 2013 |
| SAN JOSE, CA | 2013 |
| Date | Show | Location |
| May 17 -19, 2012 | THE SECRET HISTORY OF LOVE – Boston | The Theater Offensive & Hibernian Hall 182 Dudley Street Roxbury Crossing, MA |
| May 12, 2012 | THE SECRET HISTORY OF LOVE – Miami | Colony Theatre 1040 Lincoln Road Miami Beach, FL |
| May 5, 2012 | THE SECRET HISTORY OF LOVE – Santa Cruz | University of California Santa Cruz 1156 High Street Santa Cruz, CA |
| April 24, 2012 |
UNCOVERED: THE DIARY PROJECT tours to Chico, CA |
BMU Auditorium Chico State University Chico, CA |
| April 11-13, 2012 | The Fresh Meat Tour | San Jose State University Claremont Colleges |
| March 29 - April 1, 2012 |
THE SECRET HISTORY OF LOVE (world premiere) |
Dance Mission Theater San Francisco |
| December 18-21, 2011 | SEAN DORSEY TRAVELS TO BOSTON | Boston, MA |
| December 10, 2011 | SEAN DORSEY DANCE PERFORMS IN TAMPA, FLORIDA | NPN’s Annual Meeting Tampa, Florida |
| August 14, 2001 | Free Workshop with Transgender Dancer Sean Dorsey | Highways Performance Space 1651 18th Street Santa Monica, CA 90404 |
| August 12 & 13, 2011 |
UNCOVERED: THE DIARY PROJECT at HIGHWAYS PERFORMANCE SPACE (SANTA MONICA, CA) |
Highways Performance Space 1651 18th Street At 18th Street Arts Center Santa Monica, CA 90404 |
| June 16 - 19, 2011 | THE 10th ANNIVERSARY FRESH MEAT FESTIVAL | Z Space @ Theater Artaud San Francisco |
| April 29 - May 1, 2011 | THE SECRET HISTORY OF LOVE: PART I | Z Space at Theater Artaud 450 Florida Street San Francisco |
| October 5, 2010 | Sean Dorsey and Shawna Virago at Chico State | BMU Auditorium Chico State University Chico CA |
| June 18 - 20, 2010 | 2010 Fresh Meat Festival | Z Space @ Theater Artaud 450 Florida Street San Francisco |
| March 20, 2010 | SEAN DORSEY DANCE at THE DANCE MISSION BENEFIT | Dance Mission Theater San Francisco |
| February 4-7, 2010 |
UNCOVERED: THE DIARY PROJECT Sean Dorsey Dance’s Fifth Anniversary Season |
Dance Mission Theater San Francisco |
| February 18, 2010 | Artist Talk with Sean Dorsey at CIIS | California Institute of Integral Studies San Francisco |
| February 2, 2010 | Uncovered: The Diary Project Presentation | Hotel Nikko Ballroom San Francisco |
| December 3-5, 2009 | Sean Dorsey Dance at Fall(ing): An Evening of Contemporary Dance at USF | USF San Francisco |
| November 5-7, 2009 | TRANNY FEST 2009 | Mama Calizo's Voice Factory San Francisco |
| July 30-August 2, 2009 |
UNCOVERED: THE DIARY PROJECT at NEW YORK’S HOT! FESTIVAL |
Dixon Place New York City |
| June 24-28, 2009 | SEAN DORSEY ON PBS/KQED-TV | |
| June 18-21, 2009 | FRESH MEAT FESTIVAL 2009 | Project Artaud Theater San Francisco |
| May 2, 2009 | SEAN DORSEY DANCE at THE MAY DAY FESTIVAL | CounterPULSE San Francisco |
| March 6-14, 2009 | FRINGES-MARGINS-BORDERS Tour | Highways Performance Space, Los Angeles Sushi Performance & Visual Art, San Diego |
| January 29 - February 1, 2009 | Uncovered: The Diary Project | Dance Mission Theater San Francisco |
| June 19-22, 2008 | 2008 FRESH MEAT FESTIVAL | Project Artaud Theater San Francisco |
| June 18-21, 2008 | SEAN DORSEY on KQED’s ‘SPARK’ | |
| November 16-18, 2007 | LOST/FOUND | Dance Mission Theater San Francisco |
| November 30, 2007 December 1, 2007 |
CHOREOGRAPHING CHANGE | Studio Theater at Lone Mountain San Francisco |
| November 5, 2007 | SEAN DORSEY’S THE OUTSIDER CHRONICLES in BARCELONA, SPAIN | Mercat de Les Flors Barcelona, Spain |
| September 20, 2007 | SEAN DORSEY at the TEA PARTY MAGAZINE RELEASE CELEBRATION | La Pena Cultural Center Berkeley |
| June 14 - 16, 2007 | Fresh Meat 2007 | ODC Theater San Francisco |
| November 16 - 30, 2006 | The Outsider Chronicles – a photo exhibition by Lydia Daniller | Dance Mission Theater San Francisco |
| November 16 - 18 2006 | The Outsider Chronicles | Dance Mission Theater San Francisco |
| July 22, 2006 | Sean Dorsey performs at New York’s Fresh Fruit Festival | Abingdon Theater New York |
| July 11, 2006 | Sean Dorsey at the WestWave Dance Festival | Project Artaud Theater San Francisco |
| June 15 - 17, 2006 | Fresh Meat 2006 | ODC Theater San Francisco |
| March 24 - 25, 2006 | Yerba Buena Presents: Sean Dorsey at Under the Radar II | Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Forum San Francisco |
| January 12, 20, 27, 2006 | Sean Dorsey’s “6 Hours” at WOW Festival | Dance Mission Theater San Francisco |
| November 18-19, 2005 | The Outsider Chronicles | ODC Theater San Francisco |
| June 16-18, 2005 | Fresh Meat 2005 | ODC Theater 3153 17th Street @ Shotwell San Francisco |
| May 18, 2005 | Trans/Giving in Los Angeles: A Night of Transgender Performance | University of California Los Angeles |
| Feb 13, 2005 | Sean Dorsey / Fresh Meat Productions at Genderqueers/Queer Genders Conference (University of Santa Barbara) | Dance Mission 3316 24th St. @ Mission San Francisco |
| Jan 14, 15, 21, & 23, 2005 | Sean Dorsey’s “Second Kiss” at WOW Festival | MultiCultural Center Theater University of Santa Barbara |
| Nov 19, 2004 |
The Moving Shows: 848 13th Anniversary Show (Dorsey guest performer) |
848 Community Space 848 Divisadero San Francisco |
| Oct 1-2, 2004 | Fling | Jon Sims Center 1519 Mission @ 11th San Francisco |
| Sept 28, 2004 | Viva Variety | Buriel Clay Theater 762 Fulton Street San Francisco |
| Sept 3 & 4, 2004 | Gender Neutral: An Evening of Queer Art | Rose Wagner Theater Salt Lake City, Utah |
| Aug 10, 2004 |
Tickled Pink Pink Vixen Productions |
WISE Hall Theater Vancouver, BC |
| June 17-19, 2004 | Fresh Meat 2004 | ODC Theater 3153 17th Street San Francisco |
| January 23-24, 2004 | Mesomorphic Thrust | 848 Community Space 848 Divisadero San Francisco |
| November 14, 2003 |
Hot Rods & Hot Pants Fresh Meat at TrannyFest |
Luna Sea Theater 2940 -16TH Street, 2nd floor San Francisco |
| June 20-22, 2003 | Fresh Meat 2003 | ODC Theater 3153 17th Street San Francisco |
| April 25 & 26, 2003 |
Migrations: Sean Dorsey and Amy Seiwert |
ODC Theater 3153 17th Street San Francisco |
| November, 2002 |
Mediums Collide: Artists Combined Sini Anderson and Guests |
Dance Mission Theater 3316 24th Street @ Mission San Francisco |
| November 10, 2002 | Performance Panopoly | Jon Sims Center 1519 Mission St. San Francisco |
| July, 2002 | Loose Limbs (LadyFest) | New College Theater 766 Valencia (@ 18th) San Francisco |
| June 25 & 26, 2002 | Fresh Meat 2002 | ODC Theater 3153 17th Street San Francisco |