Dancers

Sarah Bush

Sarah Bush creates her inimitable style of movement combining years of training in modern, hip hop, taiko drumming, jazz, Afro-Cuban and more. Sarah studied in the Modern Dance Program at the University of Utah, receiving her BA in Dance from San Francisco State University. She has performed in the Bay Area for more than 13 years, selling out residency performances at Shotwell Studio with her innovative “In the Wake of: HOME” and three nights of “L1FE: Mine. Yours. Ours.” at Dance Mission Theater. Sarah was featured in the 2007 Women on the Way Dance Festival. She is a member of the groundbreaking dance company, Dance Brigade, and has worked with Oakland based AXIS Dance Company and the Destiny Arts Center, has collaborated with local queer/trans crew Freeplay Dance Crew, and has been a guest performer with Bill T. Jones.

Chelsea Anderson

Chelsea Anderson was first introduced to dance during her years as a competitive gymnast. Her formal dance training began when she attended the San Francisco School of the Arts, where she studied ballet, jazz, and modern for three years. She is currently attending San Francisco State University for a BA in dance. Chelsea has done a wide range of performing, including professional football halftime shows, theater performances, club scene gigs, and commercials. Her favorite style of dance is hip hop. In addition to Sarah Bush Dance Project, Chelsea has also performed with Funkanometry SF’s De La Femme, Funk Beyond Control, Mind Over Matter, SOTA pre-professional dance program.

Joi Cox

Joi Cox has a childhood background in ballet and jazz and, as an adult, she has spent considerable time dabbling in hip hop, modern, burlesque, male impersonation, and belly dance (tribal & classical) on the East and West coasts. By day, she teaches introductory Philosophy and is a Wellness Coordinator at a program for adults with Asperger’s Syndrome. The diversity of her daily experiences contribute to her unique and passionate expressions. Since transplanting to the Bay Area in 2006, she has worked with Sarah Bush Dance Project on numerous Pride, liturgical, hip hop, and contemporary projects locally and internationally.

Ingrid Elizabeth

Ingrid Elizabeth is an Ohio gone Seattle gone California artist and performer of many medium-including music, dance, theater, burlesque, and spoken word–and has been gracing the stage for over 20 years. Although she began dancing in drum circles around festival bonfires as a small child, Ingrid began formally studying dance at age 9, focusing mostly in jazz, tap, middle-eastern bellydance, and creative movement. At The Ohio State University, she added hip hop, modern, and West African styles to that list. Upon relocating to the West Coast, she performed with Circus Contraption in Seattle, WA before going on to study at the Academy of Burlesque and hitting the cabaret stage as “Miss Amazing Grace”. For the last 5 years, her “day job” has been touring and performing across the country as the leading lady in sultry folkroots band Coyote Grace, rocking the vocals, upright bass, ukulele, and percussion. Ingrid dances with SBDP as much as possible when home in the Bay Area between tours.

Amie Miller

Amie Miller began dancing at 3 years old. She first stepped onstage in youth roles in the San Francisco Ballet’s Nutcracker and A Midsummer’s Night Dream. She left the ballet world to pursue other forms of dance at age 11. She continued her dance training in high school and college, graduating from SF State University with a BA in Dance Ethnology. Amie has studied at the London Contemporary Dance School in London, England, at the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater school in New York City, and with many notable teachers in the Bay Area. She has performed with Carmen Carnes Dance Ensemble and Sarah Bush Dance Project. She is a certified Pilates instructor since 2000, and has taught dance and Pilates for the Destiny Arts Center in Oakland, CA, in addition to her private practice in San Francisco.

Sonya Smith

Sonya Smith loves movement, in all its forms, on the ground, in the air, and all the places in between. She is thrilled to be joining SBDP for this grand adventure! Recent projects in the Bay Area: Lizz Roman and Dancers, Dance Brigade’s Great Liberation Upon Hearing, and Berkeley Playhouse’s productions of Peter Pan, Singin’ in the Rain and a guest appearance in Cinderella Enchanted. Smith’s own choreography, presented in Portland, Kansas City, and San Francisco, combines aerial apparatus, props, modern dance and contact improvisation. Her half evening work Falling Away was presented at CounterPULSE and, through the Women on the Way Festival, at ODC. Recent choreography was also seen in Vanguardian productions Truce, Crowded Fire’s Forever Never Comes and Berkeley Playhouse’s Cinderella Enchanted. To find out more about performances and aerial dance classes check www.seesonya.com