Sarah Bush Dance Project’s Spirit & Bones premiered in 2018 with an intergenerational cast of 15 dancers ranging in age from 23 to over 70. 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.
Spirit & Bones is inspired by Clarissa Pinkola Estés’ book Women Who Run with the Wolves, national large-scale protests, and the movement of wolves, birds and systems of the body. Artistic Director Sarah Bush explains, “Spirit & Bones will show the multidimensionality of women,
Premiere:
2018, Taube Atrium Theater at the Wilsey Center for Opera, San Francisco, CA
Video:
Photos:
Spirit & Bones performance photos - Sold-out premiere of Spirit & Bones at Taube Atrium Theater in the Wilsey Center for Opera, San Francisco.
Photos by Amal Bisharat. Lighting Design, Patty-Ann Farrell.
Spirit & Bones photo preview - Spirit & Bones world premiere, Oct 2018, San Francisco.
Photos by Amal Bisharat
Performance Photos from Concept 23 - Spirit & Bones work-in-progress at Concept Series in the Green Room, San Francisco.
Photos by Amal Bisharat
Instagram:#SpiritandBones
Press:
- Press Release: SBDP’s Spirit & Bones nominated for TWO Izzie Awards!
- KALW Radio Open Air – Spirit & Bones
- SF Chronicle Datebook “Dance Pick”
- Radio Interview – Wanda’s Picks
- Stance on Dance – Unearthing the Feminine Spirit Via Old and Young Bones
- SF/Arts Feature (NY Times insert) – Spirit and Bones: A Dance for the Ages
- Press Release: World Premiere of Spirit & Bones
Testimonials:
Praise for Spirit & Bones
Posts:
- Mark your calendars – online classes & performances!
- Press Release: SBDP’s Spirit & Bones nominated for TWO Izzie Awards!
- Year In Review – SBDP’s 2019 Highlights
- National Women’s Studies Association keynote — Spirit & Bones!
- Reflecting on a year without mirrors…
- “I am so ready to love more people.” Thank you!
- Spirit & Bones performance photos
- KALW Radio Open Air – Spirit & Bones
- SF Chronicle Datebook “Dance Pick”
- Radio Interview – Wanda’s Picks
- Stance on Dance – Unearthing the Feminine Spirit Via Old and Young Bones
- SF/Arts Feature (NY Times insert) – Spirit and Bones: A Dance for the Ages
- Meet the Collaborators of Spirit & Bones
- Meet the Dancers of Spirit & Bones
- Video teaser – Spirit & Bones
- Press Release: World Premiere of Spirit & Bones
- Spirit & Bones photo preview
- Performance Photos from Concept 23
- A hundred tiny microphones & speakers… VENUE REVEAL and Campaign Update
- Fundraiser for Spirit & Bones
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