Sarah Bush Dance Project (SBDP) creates bridges to the world we want to live in. We are an intergenerational and multiracial dance company that celebrates queer artists, community, and culture. Through the creation and presentation of emotive choreography and interdisciplinary art, we evoke critical conversations around social justice, equity, environment, and place. In everything we do, we strive to nourish, honor, and empower every body.
🏳️🌈🎆 INTERdepenDANCE Day | Summer Fundraiser: Keep the Lights On ✨
We are grateful for the collective care ecosystem we are a part of and are running a “keep the lights on” campaign for the month of July & August to help keep us secure through the end of the year.
MURMUR SPRING TOUR 2025
MURMUR toured Northern California with the support of the Arts in California Parks grant.
If you love birds, you’ll love MURMUR. If you’ve ever stopped dead in your tracks to catch the flicker of wings and the way a bird’s call can anchor you to the present moment, this show is for you.
Experience a wild, immersive journey where dance merges with flight – blurring the lines between bodies and birds, movement and wind, stage and sky. Our dancers don’t imitate birds. They become them—channeling the wild, the threatened, and the fierce.
Through the artistry of dance, we invite tuning into birds with care for each other, the more-than-human world, and all life on this planet. We explore the language of birds, the symphony of the senses, and the interconnection of life as birds migrate across the flyways. It’s a fabulous and sensory “bird-watching” experience.
2025 Tour Dates and Locations
March 30 – Lake Merritt (Edoff Memorial Bandstand), Oakland, CA April 13 – Wildcat Canyon (Alvarado Park), Richmond, CA April 20 – Coulterville Park, Coulterville, CA April 27 – Ragle Regional Park, Sebastopol, CA May 4 – Charlie Byrd Park, Weed, CA
Come. Join the flock. LEARN MORE>
✨💗 Sapphic Salon 💜🌈
Sapphic Salon offers a sweet sexy empowering affirming space for queer community to gather on Valentine’s weekend. Sapphic Salon is SBDP’s next installment of our Sapphic series, which draws on Sapphic as an umbrella term that includes lesbian, bisexual, and pansexual trans femmes, mascs, nonbinary folks and cis women. Yet unlike these sexualities, “sapphic” strives to conjure an experience more akin to an intention toward attraction – one oriented less to any specific gender identity and more to the fullness of a potential lovers’ humanity.
Check out the SIZZLE reel from 2024!
2024 SBDP GALA: World-building in celebration of queer joy, resilience, & community!
Hear from SBDP artists and collaborators about how we are living into our mission and see highlights from our 17th season.
Sapphic Sunday Service: Queer Immersive Dance Sanctuary
Sapphic Sunday Service was a GLORIOUS day! We celebrated Pride with euphoric dance performances, queer choir, and drag in a welcoming queer-friendly church. Enjoy these stunning photos captured by Amal Bisharat @amalbphotography.
Our art bolsters a resilient hope for humanity.
SBDP has created six critically acclaimed repertory and nature-based shows in the Bay Area: Homeward, Rocked by Women, This Land, Spirit & Bones, Un-Changing Nature, and Murmur. Learn more about our WORKS.
“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.”
— San Francisco Chronicle
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Give to SBDP!
For 19 years, Sarah Bush Dance Project (SBDP) has created groundbreaking dance and art for the Bay Area community. We are proud of our incredible cadre of 25 diverse artists, with a majority who identify as LGBTQIA++. Your support of SBDP is vital for the dancers and artists to create extraordinary performances. Please generously donate to SBDP so we can soar into 2024.
NEW VIDEO: Don’t Be Afraid ft. KJ Dahlaw and Sarah Bush
MURMUR: Black Crow ft. Richelle Donigan
SPIRIT AND BONES
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.
Recent newsletters:
New Video – Don’t Be Afraid - Performed & Choreographed by Sarah Bush and KJ DahlawMovement & Performance Consultants: Dominique Hargrove and Elyse Selvarajah
Videography and Music: Be Steadwell
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