The ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ Dance Festival presents Sean Dorsey Dance with “The Missing Generation.” (Lydia Daniller)

Sean Dorsey presents the East Coast premiere of “The Missing Generation,” a dance-theater production that explores the impact of the 1980s AIDS crisis, in ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ Dance Festival performances at 7:30 p.m. Thursday and Saturday, July 16 and 18, in Schaeffer Theatre, 329 College St.

Admission is $25 for adults, $18 for seniors and $12 for students. For information about ordering tickets, please visit the festival website — — or call the ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ box office at 207-786-6161.

A powerful fusion of full-throttle dancing, luscious partnering, intimate storytelling and highly physical theater, “The Missing Generation” features real-life stories layered with Dorsey’s writing and a haunting original score. This moving portrait of contemporary American history is heartbreakingly beautiful and profoundly relevant to our times.

The company offers a Show & Tell lecture-demonstration at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, July 14, in Schaeffer. Dance writer Debra Cash gives an Inside Dance pre-performance lecture at 7 p.m. on July 18. A talkback with the artists follows both concerts.

Sean Dorsey. (Lydia Daniller)

Dorsey has been a frequent presence at ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ during the past year, including a two-week teaching residency last fall.

A Bay Area choreographer, dancer and writer, Dorsey is the United States’ first critically acclaimed transgender modern dance choreographer. He has received two Isadora Duncan Dance Awards and the Goldie Award for Performance, and has been named one of the “Top Ten” San Francisco dance artists by both the Bay Guardian and the Bay Area Reporter.

Dorsey was named one of the nation’s “Top 25 to Watch” by Dance Magazine, and his company was honored as “San Francisco’s Best Dance Company” by SF Weekly.

Dorsey has been awarded grants and commissions from the National Endowment for the Arts, National Dance Project, National Performance Network, Creative Work Fund, Wallace Alexander Gerbode Foundation, William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, James Irvine Foundation and the San Francisco Arts Commission.

His recent piece “The Secret History Of Love” received rave reviews and toured to more than 20 U.S. cities including Boston, Miami, Chicago, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Washington, D.C., and Lewiston, Maine. Learn more:

About the ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ Dance Festival

Founded in 1982 at ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ College, the ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ Dance Festival brings together an international community of contemporary choreographers, performers, educators and students in a cooperative community to study, perform and create new work.

The festival serves as an annual destination for artists, students and audiences to engage in a full range of activities and performances that foster a creative exchange of ideas, encourage exploration of new ground and provide access to a wide spectrum of dance and movement disciplines.

At press time, support for the 2015 season has been provided by ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ College, the National Endowment for the Arts, the New England Foundation for the Arts, National Performance Network, Maine Arts Commission, Maine Humanities Council, Leonard C. and Mildred F. Ferguson Foundation, Lewiston-Auburn Children’s Home, the firm of Norman, Hansen & DeTroy, Platz Associates, the Onion Foundation, the Sequoia Foundation, the Shapiro Family Foundation and generous individual donors.

Dante Brown|Warehouse Dance performs “Social Plaque.” (MABS Media)

A company known for testing both the social implications and the physical limits of moving bodies, Dante Brown|Warehouse Dance are among the performers in ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ College’s annual Fall Dance Concert, with performances at 5 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 15; 2 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 16; and 7:30 p.m. Monday, Nov. 17.

The venue is Schaeffer Theatre, 329 College St. Admission is $6 for general admission; $3 for senior citizens, non-ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ students, and ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ faculty and staff; and free for ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ students. Purchase tickets at . For more information, call 207-786-6161.

On the program:

• “Social Plaque” performed by Brown and Warehouse Dance;

• choreography by two dance majors as part of their senior thesis projects;

• four works created in intensive repertory courses for ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ dancers by visiting guest artists including San Francisco’s Sean Dorsey, regarded as the first widely known transgender modern dance choreographer;

• and a collaboration between ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ dance professor Rachel Boggia and video artist Jesse Sugarmann.

ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ College dance major Talia Mason ’15 during a rehearsal in March 2014. (Phyllis Graber Jensen/ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ College)

Based in New York, Brown and company employ highly physical creative processes to produce intense, dynamic stage environments. “Social Plaque” creates an immersive experience where the audience experiences the building and breaking down of a community. ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ will welcomes Brown to its faculty as a lecturer for the winter semester of 2015.

An award-winning choreographer, dancer and writer, Dorsey spent two weeks at ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ this fall teaching repertory students his piece “The Secret History of Love.”

Along with Dorsey, the choreographers who visited the repertory courses are Laquimah Van Dunk, a Tennessee-based choreographer who looks at community, rituals and habits through a process of game play; and Median Movement founders Alex Springer and Xan Burley, of New York City, whose lively piece on the ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ program is the result of a joint residency involving both ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ and Colby College dancers. The piece will be shown at both schools, with the Colby performances taking place Nov. 22 and 23 in Strider Theater.

“The guest artists bring a variety of perspectives on choreography,” says Boggia, assistant professor of dance and artistic director for the concert. “Along with our thesis students, they create a show that proves that you don’t have to choose between deep thinking and beautiful movement.

“In addition to challenging them with new ideas, the visiting artists give our students a tangible connection to professional artistic life.”

Boggia choreographed an accompaniment to “We Build Excitement,” a nationally touring video installation created by California video artist Sugarmann. Incorporating footage of laid off auto workers re-enacting their jobs and car accident survivors re-enacting their crashes, the humorous, poignant piece explores Americans’ relationships to cars.

An adaptation of site-specific work commissioned by SPACE Gallery in Portland, Maine, Boggia’s choreography will occupy the lobby and theater space in Schaeffer.

Two ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ seniors offer choreography in a partial fulfillment of a senior thesis in dance. Talia Mason ’15 of Silver Spring, Md., a double-major in dance and in French and francophone studies, presents a piece exploring the Rwandan genocide of 1994. The work was inspired in part by an oral history by a survivor of the genocide.

Regan Radulski ’15 of Topsham, Maine, is a dance major with a minor in chemistry. She is developing a piece that examines the similarities between human movement and the movement of proteins.