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AT WATER'S EDGE

4 minutes
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United States of America

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English/English

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English/English

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English/English

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Unreviewed
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Featuring mesmerizing queer dance in watery coves and ocean edges, AT WATER'S EDGE is a short dance film by Emmy Award-winning transgender choreographer Sean Dorsey. AT WATER'S EDGE juxtaposes trans and queer bodies in motion with water -- mutable, flowing, and ever-transforming. This short is part of a series of dance films created as part of Sean Dorsey Dance's THE LOST ART OF DREAMING project. (Other films in the series include PLACE/PORTAL and SEEK/AFTER.) Stunning...These films are exquisite, intimate, and radiate with Dorsey’s gesture-rich choreography. (Bay Times) Gorgeous (48 Hills) Dorsey has been awarded an Emmy Award (Sean Dorsey Dance: Dreaming Trans & Queer Futures), five Isadora Duncan Dance Awards, and is a Doris Duke Artist and a Dance/USA Artist Fellow. Dorsey is widely recognized as the USA's first acclaimed transgender modern dance choreographer. Dorsey's THE LOST ART OF DREAMING project imagines expansive trans, gender-nonconforming and queer Futures. This series of short films featuring choreography and performance by the groundbreaking all-LGBTQ Sean Dorsey Dance company -- and is an invitation to reclaim, conjure, and manifest joy, pleasure, well-being, freedom, love, connection, and liberation. The series features 6 short films: AT WATER'S EDGE, SEEK/AFTER, PLACE/PORTAL, SPELL/DREAM, UNFOLD/INTO, and SEEK/AFTER.

Eventive. “2023 San Francisco Transgender Film Festival.” Accessed June 25, 2026. https://sftff2023.eventive.org/films.
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References
“2023 Festival Schedule.” San Francisco Transgender Film Festival, n.d. Accessed April 14, 2026. https://sftff.org/festival/2023-festival-schedule/.