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“Transforming” is an excerpt from SBDP’s new work “Reclamation” part of the Rocked By Women project. This section celebrates the freedom found in breaking out of the limited sexist boxes that mainstream hip-hop places women into. Lifting each other up. … Continue reading
Join us March 4th, 7th, or 9th to see SBDP’s new piece!
SBDP Upcoming Performances
Monday, March 4th, 7:30pm
SBDP performing at The Nitey Awards
Castro Theatre, 429 Castro St, San Francisco
Niteys: Celebrating creative excellence and patron experience in the nightlife industry.
Hosted by: Liam Mayclem, CBS 5 “Eye on the Bay” & Renee Richardson, KFOG Music Director
Walk the Red Carpet on March 4, 2013 at the Castro Theater – VIP reception at 5:30 – Awards Show promptly at 7:30
Thursday, March 7th, 6-9pm
SBDP performing at Eventbrite’s SF Arts & Entertainment Mixer
Rebel, 1760 Market St, San Francisco
One of the things that makes San Francisco so unique is our vibrant performing arts community. Join us as we celebrate the SF arts & entertainment scene with event organizers and enthusiasts. We’ll mix and mingle over food and drinks, learn from a panel of industry experts, and wrap things up with a special performance.
Saturday, March 9th, 3-8pm
SBDP at Midway To MichFest Party
El Rio, 3158 Mission St (@ Cesar Chavez), SF
Fundraiser to buy tickets to the Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival for those that can’t afford them.
Live Bands and MCs featuring: Gina Breedlove, Margaret Belton, Kofy Brown, Shelley Doty, Vicki Randle, Dolorata, Lesa Renfey, Salima, Lori Eiserman, Lex Beatty, DJ Jennifer Divine and more….
Empowerment Through Art – Support SBDP This Season
Whether you’ve taken Sarah’s dance classes, attended a community event featuring the SBDP expressive dancers, or witnessed our highly acclaimed show Rocked By Women, you’ve seen the power of SBDP’s creative exploration and impact. We invite you to join Sarah Bush Dance Project’s commitment to empowerment through art with a direct contribution to the company or a tax-deductible donation through our fiscal sponsor Dance Brigade.
If you have already made a donation to SBDP in 2012, thank you. If not, there is still time to make a donation and deduct it from your 2012 taxes.
We take this time to reflect on the year and also invite you to share in upcoming celebrations of dance & gratitude with Sarah Bush Dance Project.
2012 Highlights:
We are proud of our accomplishments this past year!
Dancers: Juliann Witt, Natalie Aceves, Joanna Gartner
Girls Reclaiming Revolutionary Recreational Learning (GRRRL) invited Sarah Bush to participate in their Powerful Poster Project, with the goal to combat harmful media images by creating a series of posters for girls to hang on their walls and look at every day that says they are strong, powerful, and smart. GRRRL empowers girls ages 6-12, of all socioeconomic and cultural backgrounds through sports, as well as health, leadership, and social justice education.
Sarah Bush Dance Project shares GRRRL’s mission of creating images of strength, leadership and inspiration for young women and girls.
Looking Ahead to 2013 and Beyond:
With new dancers and creative collaborators on board, there is exciting momentum fueling the evolution of Rocked By Women, the multi-media performance which explores and celebrates the social and political history of female musicians of yesterday and today, the ways they have sustained and influenced feminist movements, queer communities, and Artistic Director Sarah Bush’s work as an artist, and her identity as a woman.
Sarah Bush. Photo by Sarah Deragon
The first draft of Rocked By Women was presented to a sold out audience, successfully funded via Kickstarter, and generously supported by individuals and organizations. People are loving this show and continue to ask Sarah about the work. We seek to deepen the artistry, clarify the storytelling, up the professionalism and organizational structure to ready the show for the next level: a San Francisco Bay Area performance in 2013 and touring in 2014.
Please consider a year-end contribution to Sarah Bush Dance Project to support continued development of meaningful, impactful dance.
We depend on individual backers like you to provide critical support to the talented and hard-working team who are committed to empowerment through art. Your contributions directly fund the dancers, SBDP collaborators and production costs.
There are two ways to support Sarah Bush Dance Project’s creative work:
1) Make checks payable to: Sarah Bush Dance Project
And Mail to:
Sarah Bush
PO Box 20485
Oakland, CA 94620
2) Make your tax-deductible donation payable to our fiscal sponsor “Dance Brigade”,
with “Sarah Bush Dance Project” in the memo line.
And Mail to the address above.
Because of the generous support of donors and patrons like you, Sarah Bush Dance Project is able to bring evening-length dance and multi-disciplinary works to the Bay Area community. We invite you to support us as we continue to challenge, promote, and expand the art form over the next year.
Wishing you and yours all the best in the New Year.
Deep Gratitude,
Sarah Bush
Artistic Director
sarah@sarahbushdance.com
Brittany Delany
Administrator
brittanydelany@gmail.com
It takes a village- a village of generous, talented, well-connected, artists and leaders and friends and family. Thank you.
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“Voluspa: A Ghost Dance for 2012″ at Dance Mission Theater in San Francisco.
Through prophesy and truth-telling a diverse group of artists including Sarah Bush Dance Project will come together over the course of two evenings to acknowledge and pay tribute to past and present struggles and work towards renewal, bringing our current tumultuous times starkly into focus. SBDP new dancers Juliann Witt and Joanna Gartner join Natalie Aceves in a brand new piece exploring birth and growth of culture, its crumbling and its rebuilding.
Voluspa: A Ghost Dance for 2012
Dec 19-20, Wed and Thurs at 7:30pm (SBDP will be performing on Dec 20th only)
Dance Mission Theater, 3316 24th St, SF CA 94110 ~ 415-826-4441
Tix: $12-$20. www.brownpapertickets.com
Dance Brigade, Krissy Keefer’s witty and provocative dance company, is pleased to announce Voluspa: A Ghost Dance for 2012, a ritual dance performance that explores/marks the 2012 end of the world/regeneration prophesy found in many cultures and articulated perhaps most explicitly and famously by the Mayan calendar. Whether it be the Mayan, the Hopi, the Norse, the Book of Revelation, Wovoka, or contemporary climate scientists, many cultures have the destruction and regeneration story rooted deeply in their mythology. Through prophesy and truth-telling a diverse group of artists will come together over the course of two evenings to acknowledge and pay tribute to past and present struggles and work towards renewal, bringing our current tumultuous times starkly into focus. Dance Brigade will host the two-night ritual performance at Dance Mission Theater in San Francisco (December 19-20), with the final evening lasting until 12:30am so that together artists and audience members can mark December 21st, 2012, the winter solstice and end of the Mayan calendar. JOIN US!!!
Features work by Dance Brigade, Grrrl Brigade, Danza Xitlalli, NAKA Dance Theater, John Jota Leaños and the dancers of Imperial Silence, Popoka’tepl, Vicki Noble, Carolyn Brandy, Arenas Dane Company, MamaCoatl, Nicole Kalymoon, Sarah Bush Dance Project, Anne Bluethenthal and Dancers and more!!
For more information, please visit www.dancemission.com.
Sarah Bush Dance Project is looking to hire 2-3 women of color dancers for paid monthly local gigs and performances of the Rocked By Women show October 25-27, 2013 at Dance Mission Theater, San Francisco, with touring opportunities in 2014.
Rehearsals: 3 hours on Tuesdays and 3 hours on Thursdays in the afternoon in the SF Bay Area.
Please email us and/or come to one of Sarah’s classes if you are interested in auditioning.
Please also share this listing with dance communities and folks you know who may be interested.
Thank you!
