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‘The Secret History of Love’: An Interview With Choreographer Sean Dorsey

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Source Summary

Sean Dorsey is an award-winning choreographer, dancer and writer. Recognized as the United States’ first out transgender modern dance choreographer, Dorsey has won audiences and accolades from San Francisco to New York with his powerful dance-theater. Dorsey is the founder and Artistic Director of Fresh Meat Productions, the first U.S. non-profit dedicated to the year-round creation, presentation, and touring of transgender arts. Dorsey’s current show, The Secret History of Love, will be in San Francisco from March 28-31 as part of a 20-city national tour. Dorsey was able to talk to me via e-mail about the show, the LGBT history project upon which the show is based, and being out and trans in the dance world. Matt Kailey: How did you get interested in dance and choreography? Sean Dorsey: I have always loved dance and movement. I spent a lot of time twirling around my living room in my leotard,

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Interpretive context

Why this article may matter

Community significance

“‘The Secret History of Love’: An Interview With Choreographer Sean Dorsey” may matter to community readers because it preserves a first-person or testimonial account connected to history, archives, and memory, while also engaging transgender identity and history. Such accounts can document how an issue was understood and experienced from within the period or community being discussed.

Historical significance

The article may have historical value because it explicitly interprets or preserves material concerning history, archives, and memory. Published in 2013 by Transadvocate.com, it can be read both for the history it describes and as evidence of how transgender identity and history was framed at that moment.

Policy significance

No dominant policy frame was detected in “‘The Secret History of Love’: An Interview With Choreographer Sean Dorsey.” Its policy relevance, when present, is therefore likely indirect: the article’s treatment of history, archives, and memory may shape later arguments about institutions or public practice rather than proposing a specific rule.

Content analysis

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History, archives, and memoryTheme family: Knowledge, history, and communication
100%
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Transgender identity and historyTheme family: Identity, culture, and community
57%
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Community and organizingTheme family: Identity, culture, and community
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Science, evidence, and expertiseTheme family: Knowledge, history, and communication
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Family and relationshipsTheme family: Identity, culture, and community
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Violence, safety, and dehumanizationTheme family: Power, ideology, and social conflict
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Historical analysis
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Qualitative and interview research
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Archival research
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Granular comparative context

How “History, archives, and memory” appears across the Collective corpus

This article was published during the theme’s highest-presence year in the registered corpus (2013).

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3 source-held references record early links or citations; the documented sources span 1 domain. The dated evidence currently falls in 2013. These observations describe circulation and reuse; they do not assign cultural worth or evaluate the communities, arguments, or people discussed.

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3 2013

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Transmuseplanet (@sabrina_samone)

Transmuseplanet (@sabrina_samone) · twitter.com · March 25, 2013

‘The Secret History of Love’: An Interview With Choreographer Sean Dorsey http://t.co/Qh76jLmPsW

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Autumn Sandeen (@AutumnSandeen)

Autumn Sandeen (@AutumnSandeen) · twitter.com · March 25, 2013

Via @transadvocate: ‘The Secret History of Love’: An Interview With Choreographer Sean Dorsey http://t.co/BNv4YMcjqV #trans #lgbtqia

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Trans March (@transmarch)

Trans March (@transmarch) · twitter.com · March 25, 2013

Interview with #trans choreographer Sean Dorsey in TransAdvocate: http://t.co/lGVIyZcRNj

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mkailey

39 publications · 33 inbound sources/citations