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HOWARD MACK HEADRICK The SECRET HISTORY of LOVE Choreographed & Written By Sean Dorsey Soundscore Design, Music Direction & Soundscore Narration By Performed By Sean Dorsey Sean Dorsey, Juan De La Rosa, Brian Fisher & Nol Simonse & Sound Recording, Engineering & Special Musical Guest Shawna Virago Mixing By Laura Dean Original Music By Alex Kelly, Ben Kessler, Jesse Olsen Sean Dorsey Dance Technical Bay, Ramon & Jessica, Director & Stage Manager Keith Kenniff, Jeffrey Alphonsus, Emily Paulson Storm Miguel Florez Costume Design By Lighting Design By Tiffany Amundson Clyde Sheets 7 STAGES MISSION 7 Stages is a professional, non-profit theatre company devoted to engaging artists and audiences by focusing on the social, political, and spiritual values of contemporary culture. We give primary emphasis to international work and the support and development of new plays, new playwrights, and new methods of collaboration . CAST Sean Dorsey Dance ................. Sean Dorsey, Juan De La Rosa, Brian Fisher, Nol Simonse Music Sung by Special Musical Guest.. ......................................................... Shawna Virago Soundscore features: excerpts of Oral History Interviews recorded during a 2-year Na­ tional LGBT Oral History Project- interviews by Sean Dorsey with Felicia Elizondo, Nicky Frausto, Laura Godfredsen, Jamison Green, Frank Lapiana, Marilyn Montaro, Pamela Quiton, Diego Sanchez; and excerpts of archival materials 7 STAGES PRODUCTION CREW 7 Stages Production Manager ...................................................................... Jennifer Kimball Light Board Operator ... ... .............................. .. ..... .. .... .. ................. .. .. .. .... .Geoffrey Solomon* Sound Board Operator ........ ...... .................. ... ................ .................... ...... .. ... Esther Reeves* Master Electrician ............................................. ... ................ ..... ....... ........ Katherine Neslund Electricians ............................................ Aiex Conkright*, Laura Hurda*, Geoffrey Solomon* *denotes member of 7 Stages Youth Creates Ensemble tonight's concert is 1 hour and 15 minutes and has no intermission The Secret History Of Love is presented by Fresh Meat Productions and was cre­ ated with generous support from the New England Foundation for the Arts' Na­ tional Dance Project (with lead funding from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and additional funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation), National Perfor­ mance Network's Creation Fund and Performance Residencies, 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 Founda­ tion), San Francisco Arts Commission, Queer Cultural Center (San Francisco), The Theater Offensive (Boston), and Links Hall (Chicago). The Secret Histo of Love Section Credits Our Greatest Industry Music by: Ben Kessler, Jesse Olsen Bay Performed by: Company What About Love? Performed by: Company The Search Is ON! Music by: Ramon & Jessica Performed by: Company I Could Use A Little Help Here! Performed by: Sean Dorsey Voice of the Doctor: Tina D'Eiia What It Feels Like Music by: Alex Kelly Performed by: Sean Dorsey First Crush Music by: Alex Kelly Performed by: Company Prescription Performed by: Company Speakeasy! Music by: Music Firm, Laura Dean Performed by: Company Backstage at the Speakeasy Performed by: Company This performance is funded in part by a grant from South Arts in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts and Georgia Council for the Arts. The Secret Histo of Love Section Credits War Duets Music by: Ben Kessler Performed by: Company Honey Fontaine Music by: Eddie Cooley and Otis Blackwell Sung by: Shawna Virago Performed by: Company Lifeboat Music by: Ben Kessler Performed by: Company Underground Music by: Alex Kelly, Jeffrey Alphonsus Mooney Performed by: Company Not Up For This Performed by: Company The Leap Music by: J.S. Bach, performed by Storm Miguel Florez Performed by: Sean Dorsey and Nol Simonse Electricity Music by: Storm Miguel Florez Performed by: Company Last Dance Music by: Ben Kessler, Keith Kenniff Performed by: Company 7 Stages is a NPN Partner of the National Performance Network. This project is made possible in part by support from the NPN Performance Residency Program. Major con­ tributors include the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation , Ford Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts (a federal agency) for more information www.npnweb.org CAST BIOS Sean Dorsey (Artistic Director, Dancer) is a San Francisco choreographer, dancer and writer. He has been awarded two Isadora Duncan Dance Awards and the Goldie Award for Performance . Dorsey has been named one of the nation 's "Top 25 to Watch " (Dance Magazine) , "San Francisco's Best Dance Company" (SF Weekly). Dorsey has been awarded major grants and commissions by the National Endowment for the Arts, National Dance Project, National Performance Network, Creative Work Fund, Gerbode Foundation , Hewlett Foundation , Irvine Foundation , San Francisco Arts Commission , Queer Cultural Center (San Francisco) , Bates Dance Festival, The Theater Offensive (Boston), 7 Stages (Atlanta), Links Hall (Chicago), Highways Perfor­ mance Space (Los Angeles) and Dance Place (Washington DC). Dorsey has collaborated with artists including Lana and Andy Wachowski (Directors,The Matrix trilogy, Cloud Atlas) and Antony and the Johnsons. The Secret History Of Love is currently touring 20 cities across the US including San Francisco, Los Angeles, Miami , Boston , Chicago, Washington DC, Atlanta, Pittsburgh and other cities. Sean Dorsey Dance is currently creating a new show: The Missing Generation will explore the contemporary impact of the loss of so much of an entire generation of gay and transgender people to AIDS in the 1980s. Dorsey will create the work through a national Inter-Generational LGBT Oral History Project and creation residencies in 5 cities . The Missing Generation will premiere in San Francisco in April2015 before touring the US ... and coming to 7 Stages! Dorsey is also the founder and Artistic Director of Fresh Meat Productions, the nation's first nonprofit organization to create, present and tour year-round transgender arts programs. Fresh Meat's programs include the annual Fresh Meat Festival, Sean Dorsey Dance's local and touring engagements and other Bay Area arts programs. www. seandorseydance.com Brian Fisher (Dancer) has appeared on Broadway, Off-Broadway, and has appeared in works by Alvin Ailey, Kurt Joos, Chao San Goh , lgal Perry, Sonya Delwaide, Mark Franko, Lar Lubovitch , Doug Varone, Amy Siewert, Rebecca Salzer and Robert Moses. He has performed with ODC, Mark Foehringer, San Francisco Opera , Rosalind Newman and Dancers, Anima Mundi, Peninsula Ballet Theater, Berkeley Ballet Theater, Western Ballet and Diablo Ballet. He has been awarded an Isadora Duncan Award for Best Ensemble Performance. This is Brian 's seventh season with Sean Dorsey Dance. CAST BIOS Juan de Ia Rosa (Dancer) is an active member of both the theatre and dance communities in the Bay Area and has danced with Kelly Kemp and Company, 13th Floor Dance theatre, Mark Foer­ hinger, Dance Brigade's Great Liberation Upon Hearing, Chris Black/Potrzebe's Extinction Burst: a dance of lost movement at the Cal Academy of Sciences and Little Seismic Dance's We Don 't Belong Here. He is thrilled to return to the stage with Sean Dorsey Dance for his sixth season . Nol Simonse (Dancer) is a founding member of Kunst-Stoff, Janice Garrett and Dancers (now Garrett+Moulton Productions), and Sean Dorsey Dance. He is also a long time collaborator/ performer of Sue Roginski, Eric Kupers, Christie Funsch , Stephen Pelton, and Kara Davis. He produces his own work with Todd Eckert for the 'Shared Space' series , and has set work on the Lines summer program, ODC's Dance Jam, Dance Brigade's Grrrl Brigade, and USF students. Nol teaches at Lines Dance Center, Shawl-Anderson and Dance Mission . He has been awarded the Goldie Award for dance and an Isadora Duncan Dance Award for Individual Performance.