BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:1.0 TZ:-07 BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:The Missing Generation: Exploring AIDS Loss in Dance URL:http://www.harbourliving.ca/event/the-missing-generation-exploring-aids-loss-in-dance/ LOCATION:University Centre Farquhar Auditorium :: University of Victoria, 3800 Finnerty Road Victoria, DESCRIPTION;ENCODING=QUOTED-PRINTABLE:

THE MISSING GENERATION gives voice to long time survivors of the early AIDS epidemic, through full-throttle dance, luscious partnering, intimate storytelling and theater. This powerful show is 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. Sean Dorsey created the work over a 2-year period by traveling across the US to record oral history interviews with long time survivors of the early AIDS epidemic, host community residencies, and conduct extensive archival research.

“There is an incredible urgency to undertaking this project now,” says Dorsey. “During my lifetime, we will see the passing of the last generation of people who actually experienced the early years of the AIDS epidemic first-hand. We are already rapidly losing our community’s stories. I wanted to capture and share part of this important history and reckon with the loss and grief this generation endured, and to collectively face this history and grieve and heal together.”

Sean Dorsey is the nation’s first acclaimed TRANSGENDER contemporary dance choreographer. With his signature fusion of contemporary dance, storytelling and theater, Dorsey is blazing a trail celebrated by critics and sold-out audiences alike. 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. Dorsey and his dance company has been named “San Francisco’s Best Dance Company” (SF Weekly) and named in the nation’s “Top 25 to Watch” by Dance Magazine. Dorsey has been awarded three Isadora Duncan Dance Awards, the Goldie Award for Performance, national commissions, and praise from New York to Los Angeles. THE MISSING GENERATION has been nominated for 2 Isadora Duncan Awards in 2015-16 for Best Company Performance and Best Soundscore/Text/Music.

Sean Dorsey Dance’s multi-generational ensemble of dancers dance to a lush multi-layered soundscore that features the voices and remarkable real-life stories, along with Dorsey’s own writing and original music. Performed by: Sean Dorsey, Brian Fisher, ArVejon Jones and Nol Simonse. Original music by: Alex Kelly, Jesse Olsen Bay, Ben Kessler and Jeffrey Alphonsus Mooney. Lighting Design: Clyde Sheets. Sound Engineering/Mixing: Laura Dean. Costume Design: Tiffany Amundson.

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UVic Ticket Centre
www.tickets.uvic.ca or by phone at 250-721-8480
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Mon-Fri 9:30 AM-4:00 PM

More info: http://www.uvic.ca/auditorium

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