Tickets on sale now for our Oakland premiere of Un-Changing Nature.
October 25-27. Advance purchase suggested.
Oakland-based contemporary dance theater company.
Sarah Bush Dance Project creates and presents multimedia dance theater through innovative artistry, community interaction, and feminist ideals. SBDP creates art that reminds audiences of the power and compassion in ourselves and others, bolstering a resilient hope for humanity.
Our 12th year!
Since 2007, Sarah Bush Dance Project has produced four critically acclaimed repertory shows in the Bay Area: Home, Rocked by Women, This Land, and Spirit & Bones, and is now in production for Un-Changing Nature to be held at The Flight Deck at the end of October.
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.”
danced with controlled abandon”
— 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:
SBDP in the News – The East Bay Monthly - Suspend Your Disbelief--Dance we see on stage can safely be assumed to have been created in a rehearsal space, but the security of an enclosed area—steady ground and solid vertical walls—is not enough for Sarah Bush.
Un-Changing Nature, video trailer - Promo video from Irene Young for our upcoming show, Un-Changing Nature. Music Lillie Ruth Bussey. Dancers: Lydia Clinton, KJ Dahlaw.