Sean Dorsey’s concert Uncovered: The Diary Project premiered in early 2009 at an extended, sold-out run in San Francisco and is now touring throughout the country. Named Best Dance/Performance Company by the SF Weekly and one of the TOP DANCES OF 2009 by the San Francisco Bay Guardian, Sean Dorsey and a stellar cast of dancers chase the naked truth in this nationally-celebrated concert.
Using text from actual, real-life diaries of transgender and queer people, Uncovered's powerful dances reveal lives and stories that history has tried to erase. Out spill diary secrets, bathhouse antics, pop idols, outrageous love, impossible courage and the importance of documenting and sharing our history. This critically acclaimed concert is the culmination of a year-and-a-half long research process in which Sean Dorsey uncovered and researched diaries of transgender and queer people - from the famous to the unknown.
Uncovered features Lou, a powerful suite of dances based on the lifelong journals of Lou Sullivan (1951-1991), a pioneering Bay Area transgender activist; and Lost/Found, the story of an imaginary boyhood based on a very real diary.
After sold-out runs in San Francisco, New York, Los Angeles and San Diego in 2009, the concert returned for another sold-out run in San Francisco in February, 2010. Dorsey and Uncovered made headlines in feature articles in the San Francisco Chronicle, In Dance, Curve Magazine, the SF Weekly, SF Appeal and on TV’s Culture Wire, Time Out New York and Out Magazine.
For more about Uncovered: The Diary Project, go to http://www.freshmeatproductions.org/uncovered.html