The Secret History of Love

May 17-20, 2012
 
Sean Dorsey, award-winning dance theater choreographer and director, and Fresh Meat Productions visited Boston in December to prepare for our upcoming dance theater piece, The Secret History of Love! The Theater Offensive, alongside the National Performance Network, is the lead co-comissioner for The Secret History of Love. Stellar interns Elizabeth Ehret and Kelsey Jarboe helped Sean conduct interviews with local transgender and queer elders to compile a historical collection of OUT stories to be used in the piece. We invite you to join us May 17-20th for the east coast premiere of The Secret History of Love!
 
Check out a sneak preview of The Secret History of Love HERE!
 
Info on The Secret History of Love from Fresh Meat Productions‘:
 
Over the past two years, Sean Dorsey has been uncovering 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 new dances.
To create this new work, Dorsey has been doing extensive archival research and conducting and recording 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.
 
The Secret History Of Love features a stellar cast of dancers and performers: Juan De La Rosa, Sean Dorsey, Brian Fisher, Nol Simonse 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.
 
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 [with Lead Presenters 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).
 
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