Anemone Dance Theater is under the artistic direction of Sara Baird. The company pursues interdisciplinary art making, forges artistic collaborations, and seeks out alternative performance spaces. 

Sara Baird is pleased to announce that she received the North Carolina Arts Council Fellowship in choreography for 2014-15. This award includes funding from the state of North Carolina and the National Endowment for the Arts.

Anemone Dance Theater is influenced by the philosophy of Japanese Butoh Dance. The company’s repertory investigates the lightness and darkness of humanity, the power of the natural world, and the evolving relationship between our society and technology.

Sara Baird, artistic director of Anemone Dance Theater, and Julie Becton Gillum, artistic director of Legacy Butoh, are frequent collaborators, having choreographed and performed together many times over the last five years. They created and produced the sold out show, Yugen through NC Stage’s Catalyst Series, and more recently, UWABE – Art in the Park in the fall of 2014. Both artists have toured the world with 60 years of combined professional experience.