Sara Wilbourne
dancer/collaborator
fire sale, single man
Sara Wilbourne came to Santa Cruz County in 1980, fresh from her MFA in Modern Dance at the University of Utah. Her initial gig was dancing with Tandy Beal and Company, a position she was privileged to hold for 15 years. As she embraced the community (and it embraced her), Sara joined the Dance Department faculty at Cabrillo College for 14 years, and began her forays into the community as a teacher in other ways: with Discover Dance and Listening to the Earth, projects sponsored by Tandy Beal and Company; as an Artist in Residence in four county high schools, sponsored by an individual grant from the California Arts Council; as a teacher of Modern Dance at the downtown Santa Cruz Dance Gallery.
Since 1980, she has created, danced in and produced more projects than there is memory to mention, including Elio and the Hunt for the Sun, a dance/musical extravaganza with 12-foot tall puppets; Street Moves, a site specific piece on the top of a two story parking lot; several commissions for First Night Santa Cruz; and the infamous late night/after concert improvisations at Cabrillo College. She was the recipient of one of the Santa Cruz Sentinel’s first annual Gail Rich Awards, an honor for Santa Cruz artists, which recognizes depth and breadth of vision and service to the community.
As an ongoing project, Sara created Talk/Dance/Talk. Under this heading, workshops and concerts were offered annually, with the vision of deepening our articulation about dance as an art form from the inside as well as out. Sara was a founding member of Bruce Lee’s Company of Strangers and later Plan B: improvise, two improvisational dance/theater groups, which pushed personal as well as group artistic expression in performance. For two years, she has been a part of Cid Pearlman/Performance Projects; and although we all were happy for Cid's opportunity in Estonia, we are equally glad to have them back!
Sara's most recent dance appearance was September 2010 at the Crocker Theatre with Tandy Beal and Jon Scoville in their new project: HereAfterHere.
photo: Susan Hillyard
dancer/collaborator
fire sale, single man
Sara Wilbourne came to Santa Cruz County in 1980, fresh from her MFA in Modern Dance at the University of Utah. Her initial gig was dancing with Tandy Beal and Company, a position she was privileged to hold for 15 years. As she embraced the community (and it embraced her), Sara joined the Dance Department faculty at Cabrillo College for 14 years, and began her forays into the community as a teacher in other ways: with Discover Dance and Listening to the Earth, projects sponsored by Tandy Beal and Company; as an Artist in Residence in four county high schools, sponsored by an individual grant from the California Arts Council; as a teacher of Modern Dance at the downtown Santa Cruz Dance Gallery.
Since 1980, she has created, danced in and produced more projects than there is memory to mention, including Elio and the Hunt for the Sun, a dance/musical extravaganza with 12-foot tall puppets; Street Moves, a site specific piece on the top of a two story parking lot; several commissions for First Night Santa Cruz; and the infamous late night/after concert improvisations at Cabrillo College. She was the recipient of one of the Santa Cruz Sentinel’s first annual Gail Rich Awards, an honor for Santa Cruz artists, which recognizes depth and breadth of vision and service to the community.
As an ongoing project, Sara created Talk/Dance/Talk. Under this heading, workshops and concerts were offered annually, with the vision of deepening our articulation about dance as an art form from the inside as well as out. Sara was a founding member of Bruce Lee’s Company of Strangers and later Plan B: improvise, two improvisational dance/theater groups, which pushed personal as well as group artistic expression in performance. For two years, she has been a part of Cid Pearlman/Performance Projects; and although we all were happy for Cid's opportunity in Estonia, we are equally glad to have them back!
Sara's most recent dance appearance was September 2010 at the Crocker Theatre with Tandy Beal and Jon Scoville in their new project: HereAfterHere.
photo: Susan Hillyard