LEWISTON — The opening speaker for the 2016-17 season of the Great Falls Forum is Sean Dorsey who is recognized as the nation’s first acclaimed transgender modern dance choreographer. Dorsey has won audiences and accolades from San Francisco to New York with his powerful dance-theater

The forum will be held at the Lewiston Library, Thursday, Sept. 15, in Callahan Hall at noon.

 In a multimedia presentation entitled “Unearthing Buried LGBTQ History Through Modern Dance,” Dorsey will share video excerpts of a recent trilogy of dance works that explore our contemporary relationship to censored, buried, or forgotten parts of LGBTQ history. Taken together, these three works constitute a tour de force exploration and articulation of contemporary human experience.

Dorsey’s dances are explorations of human experience. His works are a fusion of full-throttle dance, luscious partnering, intimate storytelling and theater. Highly physical, accessible, rooted in story, and danced with precision, 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 U.S. cities and has been awarded major support and commissions by the National Endowment for the Arts, National Dance Project and Bates Dance Festival, among others.

The Great Falls Forum is a monthly, brown-bag speaker series featuring statewide and regional leaders in public policy, business, academia and the arts. The programs are free, open to all and no reservations are required. Coffee, tea and bottled water are provided for a donation at the event. The Forum is a co-sponsorship of the Sun Journal, Bates College and LPL.

For more information, contact LPL adult and teen services at (207) 513-3135 or LPLReference@Gmail.com

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