Sarah Bush Dance Project

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We need to raise $15,000 to produce our biggest show yet, Spirit & Bones. Please consider making a personally meaningful contribution today!

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Sarah Bush Dance Project (SBDP) formed under the artistic vision of Sarah Bush in 2007 to promote innovative artistry, community interaction, and feminist ideals through the creation and presentation of multimedia dance. SBDP creates dance that reminds audiences of the power and compassion in ourselves and others, bolstering a resilient hope for humanity.

“elegant, muscular choreography
danced with controlled abandon”
— KQED Arts

“exuberant and visceral choreography”
— SF Chronicle

Our 2018 premiere Spirit and Bones is an evening-length intergenerational and multimedia performance using dance, visual design, and live original music to highlight female resilience in times of darkness. Inspired by Clarissa Pinkola Estés’ book Women Who Run with the Wolves and national debates around women’s validity and rights, this evening-length production will highlight female resilience in times of darkness, the tenacity of the individual woman, and the ferocious love and strength generated by community. This is SBDP’s fourth and most ambitious show yet.
Save the date! – October 26-28, 2018.

Sarah Bush Dance Project finished off its 10th anniversary season with the 2017 sold-out premiere of Homeward, exploring the ideal of home — safe, solid, reliable, personal — and then, just like that, it can be gone.

“Homeward is an intriguing, heartfelt look at human connections and the ways people feel at home; it left the audience thinking about its own versions of home long after they left the studio.”
— The Daily Californian

SBDP’s 2016 project This Land brought together two great sources of inspiration: Art and Nature. In This Land Oakland, SBDP called us back to this incredible landscape of Oakland, from the developed and designed to its watery edges, enchanted redwoods and scenic hills. SBDP continues to work with community group creating “This Land” workshops. Please contact us for info.

“Against these spectacular, constantly shifting backdrops, infiltrated by ambient sounds and intentional music, the drama of Bush’s highly charged movement is meant to renew our sense of self, our sense of place and community.”
— The Huffington Post

We’ve also been touring our repertory piece, Rocked by Women, both domestically and internationally. Please contact us for workshop and performance bookings.

“Rocked [is] a weighty yet explosive expression of the power of an indomitable spirit and embracing courage.”
— SF Bay Guardian

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Performance Photos from Concept 23 -
Spirit & Bones work-in-progress.
Photos by Amal Bisharat

Individual and collective power. An artistic ray of hope. - Great news! Blum Family Foundation will match ALL donations to Spirit & Bones given between today and Saturday June 30th!

Exciting News!! Campaign Update and Happy Pride! - With one week left of our summer fundraising campaign we were excited to receive a $2000 grant from Open Meadows Foundation!! That brings us to $10K, but we still have $5K to go to reach our goal.