Fri + Sat, August 12 + 13 @ 8.30pm
After sold-out runs in San Francisco and New York, Uncovered: The Diary Project tours to Highways for one weekend only!
Using text from real-life diaries of LGBT people, this award-winning show fuses dance, theater and storytelling to reveal lives and stories that history has tried to erase.
Diary secrets, bathhouse antics, pop idols, outrageous love, impossible courage and the importance of documenting and sharing our history explode onstage in this powerful, groundbreaking production.
“SAN FRANCISCO’S BEST DANCE COMPANY” (SF Weekly)
“BREATHTAKING BEAUTY” (Bay Times)
“ONE OF THE TOP DANCES OF THE YEAR” (San Francisco Bay Guardian)
Trailblazing transgender choreographer Sean Dorsey (winner of two Isadora Duncan Dance Awards and the Goldie Award for Performance) and a gorgeous cast of dancers chase the naked truth in Uncovered: The Diary Project. Uncovered features two dances: ‘Lou,’ a dance based on the lifelong journals of Lou Sullivan (1951-1991), a pioneering transgender activist; and ‘Lost/Found,’ the story of an imaginary boyhood based on a very real diary.
To create ‘Lou,’ Dorsey researched the lifelong journals of Lou Sullivan, a transsexual gay man who was a trailblazing activist, organizer and writer. Before his death from AIDS, Sullivan bequeathed 30 years of his journals and papers to the GLBT Historical Society in order to leave a companion for other transgender people, to educate and open minds, and to ensure that the progress he had struggled a lifetime for would not be lost. To create ‘Lou,’ Dorsey researched this collection, compiled and distilled 30 years of Sullivan’s journal writings into an original soundscore, and choreographed a suite of dances based on Sullivan’s remarkable journey.
Performed by a gorgeous cast of dancers: Sean Dorsey, Juan De La Rosa, Brian Fisher and Nol Simonse. Original music by Shawna Virago, Storm Florez and Ben Kessler.
For Full Show info visit www.freshmeatproductions.org
$15 Students/Members
*No one turned away for lack of funds
