Set in expansive fields and watery coves, Place/Portal is a dance film featuring award-winning transgender choreographer-dancer Sean Dorsey. Place/Portal asks: what happens when a trans body is allowed to dream about the Future? This short is part of a series of dance films created for Sean Dorsey Dance's multi-year project The Lost Atr of Dreaming which investigates and imagines expansive trans, gender-nonconforming, and queer Futures.
Sean Dorsey
Set in expansive fields and watery coves, Place/Portal is a dance film featuring award-winning transgender choreographer-dancer Sean Dorsey. Place/Portal asks: what happens when a trans body is allowed to dream about the Future? This short is part of a series of dance films created for Sean Dorsey Dance's multi-year project The Lost Atr of Dreaming which investigates and imagines expansive trans, gender-nonconforming, and queer Futures.
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