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.

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 in Oakland, October 25-27.

Un-Changing Nature is a collection of SBDP’s rarely seen works with diverse looks at how humans impact the environment and how it in turn, impacts us. Each piece was inspired by a different adventure and created both inside and outside the studio. This show celebrates the spiritual impact of wilderness on our lives. It invites audiences to reflect on both the power we have to change the environment and our vulnerability in the truth of climate change. The dances are designed to reflect back to audiences their individual and collective power in the face of challenges and adversity.

SBDP’s funding comes from a variety of sources.  Individual donations make up a large part of our annual income.  We are buoyed by the support of our longtime and ever-expanding community.  Thank you!  Meeting the funding goal with this campaign is key to balancing our budget and ensuring that we have the resources to create a professional, high-quality production and compensate our performers and production team at the level they deserve.

By donating to this campaign not only are you championing artists and local economies, you are upholding the power of live performance as a means of bringing people together. This project invites reflection, conversation and community interaction around the important notions of compassion for the planet and empathy for the health and safety of its inhabitants. Thank you for all YOU do and for inspiring us to continue to live and work in alignment with values we believe in.

Producer and Artistic Director: Sarah Bush.

Choreography: Sarah Bush in collaboration with performers and previous cast.

Performers: Sarah Bush, Lydia Clinton, Julianna Cressman, KJ Dahlaw, Frances Sedayao.

Sarah Bush’s devised dance-theater work has been commissioned by The Ground Floor at Berkeley Rep, Berkeley Art Center, Axis Dance Company, Destiny Arts Center, and SF Movement Arts Festival at Grace Cathedral. Her work has been presented by A.C.T., Z Space, National Queer Arts Festival, Global Women’s Rights Forum, West Wave Dance Festival, and at the Wilsey Center for Opera and Malonga Casquelourd Center for the Arts. Sarah is the recipient of the 2019 Della Davidson Prize, a Dance Europe Critic’s Choice selection, and awards from Curve Magazine and Bay Area Dance Watch.

Photos by Sarah Bush, Lisa Harding, and Ken Osborn.