Sean Dorsey is an award-winning choreographer, writer and dancer. Celebrated as the nation’s first out transgender modern dance choreographer, Dorsey has won audiences and accolades from San Francisco to New York with his powerful dances that provide a window into transgender and queer experience.

Dorsey’s acclaimed style is a fusion of dance, storytelling and theater. Praised as “brilliance” by the San Francisco Chronicle, Dorsey has gained national attention for demystifying modern dance with his highly accessible, articulate, deeply moving work that is followed passionately by trans, queer and straight audiences alike.

Dorsey was recently named as one of Dance Magazine's Top "25 To Watch," an annual who's-who list of the nation’s leading young dance artists. Dorsey is the first transgender artist to be named in “25 To Watch,” which is known internationally as one of the US’ greatest dance honors. Dorsey is also the winner of two Isadora Duncan Dance Awards, the Goldie Award for Performance and was named one of the international dance scene's most promising choreographers by Europe's leading dance magazine, BalletTanz.

“exquisite…poignant and important” - BalletTanz

“breathtaking…tear jerking and hilarious” - SF Bay Guardian

“boundlessly gifted…flawless dance” - Bay Area Reporter

Dorsey has been profiled in Time Out New York Magazine, Out Magazine, the San Francisco Chronicle, Curve Magazine, PBS/KQED-TV, SF Bay Guardian, SF Weekly, Bay Area Reporter, Boston’s Bay Area Windows, Make/Shift Magazine, and many others. Dorsey has performed extensively throughout the Bay Area and at the National Queer Arts Festival, Fresh Meat Festival, West Wave Dance Festival, Tranny Fest, HOT! Festival (New York), Fresh Fruit Festival (New York), HomoAGoGo, Out On Screen Festival (Vancouver), Lesbian and Gay Dance Festival; and on tour in cities across the US and Canada.

Dorsey’s nationally-celebrated concert Uncovered: The Diary Project premiered in early 2009 at an extended, sold-out run in San Francisco and is now available for touring. 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. Named one of the TOP DANCES OF 2009 by the San Francisco Bay Guardian, the concert is the culmination of a year-and-a-half-long research process and includes Lou, a suite of dances based on the lifelong journals of pioneering female-to-male transgender activist Lou Sullivan (1951-1991). Sean Dorsey Dance is now booking 2010-2012 tour performances of Uncovered: The Diary Project and other work in the Company's repertoire. Please contact us with bookings inquiries to bring Sean Dorsey Dance to your festival, theater or college.