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COVID-19 update:
~ All in-person performances canceled through at least the end of May.
~ The July National Women’s Music Festival in Wisconsin has been canceled, but SBDP will be there in 2021.
~ In-person classes canceled until further notice.
~ Join our FaceBook group to live stream Sarah’s dance classes.
We are working on ideas to continue making and sharing art in these unusual times. Please check back regularly for further updates about video streaming of performances and opportunities to share in our community art projects.
Oakland-based contemporary dance theater company.
Sarah Bush Dance Project creates and presents multimedia dance theater through innovative artistry and community interaction. SBDP creates art that reminds audiences of the power and compassion in ourselves and others, bolstering a resilient hope for humanity.
Our 13th year!
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“transformative dance that speaks so clearly to pressing social and environmental issues without ever sacrificing the beauty and daring of the choreography or the breathtaking performance”
Since 2007, Sarah Bush Dance Project has produced five critically acclaimed repertory shows in the Bay Area: Home, Rocked by Women, This Land, Spirit & Bones, and Un-Changing Nature.
The SF Chronicle said of our sold-out Spirit & Bones premiere, “Dance makers want to reflect the zeitgeist in their productions. But every so often the planets align, and a long-planned work ends up tapping the cultural climate so aptly that it doubles as a rallying cry.” Of the outdoor landscape series, This Land, the Huffington Post said, “the drama of Bush’s highly charged movement is meant to renew our sense of self, our sense of place and community.” The SF Bay Guardian reviewed Rocked by Women, a coming of age story honoring the history of women’s music, as “a weighty yet explosive expression of the power of an indomitable spirit and embracing courage.” A Homeward audience member reflected, “Homeward stirred memories and longings for relationship, for meaning, for home. Such a feast of choreography.”
— KQED Arts
— SF Chronicle
“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
Recent newsletters:
#SixFootWingspan – weekly creative prompts - We are so excited by all the community response to last week's prompt. Keep going!
Week 2 - Express Your Colorful Self. Be the Light...
Now we’re ALL Artists-in-Residence! 😊 - #SixFootWingspan community art project. Each week we’ll share prompts and process and invite you to join us in this bird-inspired adventure and our 13th season.
Not the newsletter I thought I’d write… - This March newsletter was supposed to include a report of my trip to Nebraska, news of our performance and workshops at the Palo Alto Art Center, a glamorous photo of the cast and musicians of Spirit & Bones at the Izzies...
Press Release – Audubon California Announces New Dance Residency with SBDP - Bay Area Artistic Director and Choreographer, Sarah Bush and her company of dancers have been selected to be the 2020 Artist in Residence at the Richardson Bay Audubon Center.