Featured Evening-Length Works
September 10-11, 2021
live-streamed on facebook and instagram
A live-stream virtual journey through the landscape of the Richardson Bay (unceded Coastal Miwok) environment. The language of birds, a symphony of the senses, the interconnection of all life. Through the artistry of dance we invite tuning-in, with attention and intention, to birds, to care for self, each other, for all life on this planet.
MURMUR is an experiment in access and multiple perspectives, an art murmuration riding the live-streaming waves, currents of connection, migrating nearly instantly across the flyway of digital distance.
Un-Changing Nature
October 25-27, 2019
The Flight Deck theater in Oakland, CA
SOLD OUT
A collection of dances exploring how humans impact the environment and how it in turn, impacts us.
Performers: Sarah Bush, Lydia Clinton, Julianna Cressman, KJ Dahlaw, Frances Sedayao.
Spirit & Bones
October 26-28, 2018
Taube Atrium Theater in the Wilsey Center for Opera, San Francisco
SOLD OUT
Sarah Bush Dance Project’s World Premiere of Spirit & Bones, with an intergenerational cast of 15 dancers ranging in age from 23 to over 70 and live music and original score by Skip the Needle. Featuring Bay Area dance luminaries, Spirit & Bones is an evening-length production highlighting female resilience in times of darkness, the tenacity of the solo woman, and the ferocious love and strength generated by community.
Homeward
December 9, 10, 16 & 17 – 2017
Shawl-Anderson Dance Center, Berkeley
SOLD OUT
To celebrate our 10th anniversary, SBDP presented Homeward. New work exploring the ideal of home – safe, solid, reliable, personal — and then, just like that, it can be gone. You have time to grab one suitcase – what do you put inside?
This Land Oakland: Bringing the Outside In
May 22, 2016
Odell Johnson Theater, Laney College, Oakland
A celebration of outdoor Oakland. Five multi-media dance pieces inspired by Oakland landscapes.
SBDP presented a full-length theater showing of This Land Oakland at Laney Theater.
All the previously performed outdoor pieces, along with two solos were collected for an indoor theater performance: Recompose, Reshape, Recreate, Reach, Recall.
Map tiles by Stamen Design, under CC BY 3.0. Data by OpenStreetMap, under CC BY SA.
Rocked By Women
A Mother’s Day tradition
May 9-10, 2015
Malonga Casquelourd Center for the Arts, Oakland
Rocked By Women
Premiere of the re-conceived show!
May 9-11, 2014
Dance Mission Theater, San Francisco
Music soothes us, shakes us, astounds us and breaks our hearts. In this evening length work, the fierce Sarah Bush Dance Project rocks through the life of a woman rocked by women. From baby steps to coming out, and first crush to lost love, music by women from the past four decades binds the story of many to one and one to many – transforming everyday memories to the history we all share.
With its eclectic score of unforgettable voices, this kinetic, hybrid work pays tribute to the women who rock us.
Sarah Bush Dance Project presents:
Rocked By Women
June 16, 2011
African American Art & Culture Complex, San Francisco
All our lives we’ve been rocked by women.
Cradled. Shaken. Moved.
In a multi-media dance performance, choreographer Sarah Bush takes you on a powerful journey paying homage to the fearless women musicians who have shaped generations. From Cris Williamson to Joan Armatrading to P!nk, Sarah Bush Dance Project tells a story of gratitude, love, and sustaining empowerment though art.
Sarah Bush Dance Project presents:
(In The Wake Of) HOME
December 14-15, 2007
Shotwell Studios, San Francisco
HOME covers territory from the physical space of a “residency” at Shotwell Studios to the internal space of “feeling at home” in one’s self, in relationships, in space and time, and in the world. Sarah Bush Dance Project innovates traditional modern dance choreography with hip hop dance. In HOME, a musical score ranging from folk to electronic and visual images seamlessly intertwine to illustrate and parallel the variety and differences in human experiences and emotion around the places and states we call HOME.
Freeplay Dance Crew & Sarah Bush Dance Project Presents:
Original Production: L1FE: mine. yours. ours.
March 16-18, 2007
Dance Mission Theater, San Francisco
L1FE captures the essence of unity and diversity by fusing choreography and music ranging from hip-hop and modern to classical jazz, and incorporating video into the live performance experience. L1FE communicates the very intimate yet universally shared emotions that define our human experience—love, loss, the deep and complex stages of grief, and ultimately resolution and hope. The unifying vision of this piece is evident as well in the diversity of choreographers and dancers who come together to create it. L1FE is primarily a collaboration between FDC and the Sarah Bush Dance Project, two companies with very distinct backgrounds that share a common dance community, common struggles, and common goals of touching humanity through art.
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