BANDALOOP

Coming 🔜 Our London Performance Short Film 🎞️

📍 St Paul's Cathedral
🎭 Greenwich+Docklands International Festival
🎵 Roma Yagnik

“We dance for hope in impossible times.” —Melecio Estrella, Artistic Director, BANDALOOP

Congratulations Pattie Gonia Yo-Yo Ma Quinn Christopherson for this stunning release!

New climate change song aims to give hope in dark times NPR Tiny Desk contest winner Quinn Christopherson, drag queen Pattie Gonia and world-renowned cellist Yo-Yo Ma hope "Won't Give Up" will be sung at climate change rallies and in concert halls.

Incredible moments captured by Brooke Anderson as we gathered with our community to celebrate the grand opening of our new artistic & administrative HQ: BANDALOOP Studios in West Oakland CA!

Special thanks to SRMERNST, Community Bank of the Bay, SOZO and Kilovolt for your support of this event.

Hey that's us! 🥰

In BANDALOOP spaces, we actualize safety in three dimensions:
Care of Self
Care of Others
Care of the Space and Community

We realize that true safety is not a solid reality - it is situational, relative and dynamic - a living system - and in many spaces in the world people are NOT SAFE.

As a company that aims to reimagine what is possible and actualize a Culture of Safety, we stand in solidarity with movements towards liberation and the CALL TO A CEASEFIRE

Artwork done by Natalie Hinahara & by Lukaza Branfman-Verissimo

From our incredible photographer Brooke Anderson & Brooke Anderson Photography: Stills of Our Stories & Struggles. This was a feat like no other.

THANK YOU LONDON!!!🥹😍🥰

Yesterday! gave their final bow for Resurgam on the steps of after an incredible 3 days in the .

To the many thousands of you who joined us, thank you for the magical moments 💓

There’s more free art where that came from. GDIF continues until 10 Sep. Plan your experience festival.org/GDIF-2023

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London you have captured our hearts! Thank you Greenwich+Docklands International Festival & City of London, United Kingdom for hosting us. Two more performances, tonight and tomorrow at 6:15pm. FREE FOR ALL!

Photos by Brooke Anderson

We make our UK debut next week at 🥹 And our feature dropped today 🧚🏽‍♂️

Arise, and be all that you dreamed. 🕊️

Image description: two dancers on glass façade, looking towards a bird flying across the blue sky.

Life has been incredibly full at BANDALOOP. Here at home in West Oakland, we're entering the last phase of construction for the newly expanded BANDALOOP Studios opening this November. Very soon we will be able to reveal images as we begin to invite our community for sneak peak. We also recently held an audition for the new BANDALOOP Training Group cohort, and were amazed to receive over 50 applications - the most we've ever had in our history. This is a sign of great things to come with the new Studios: expanded education and training programs, and 8,000 sq ft of dance floors & walls! (YES, we are only space fully rigged for vertical dance in the Bay Area!)

Meanwhile the company has been creating and rehearsing for the upcoming tour. Over the next month, we will be traveling to locations that truly express our passion for activating vertical spaces large and small. From a new cultural center in Port Angeles overlooking the Salish Sea, to a world class art gallery in Healdsburg, Sonoma, to Sir Christopher Wren's 300 year-old Saint Paul's Cathedral in London, our global quest for awe and joy continues!

See where we will be next:
https://www.bandaloop.org/dates

📣📣📣 ATTENTION LONDON! We will be performing on St. Paul's Cathedral Aug 31-Sep 2! https://festival.org/gdif/whats-on/resurgam/

"Bandaloop have done their thing in some pretty spectacular places, but never a historic building comparable to this one. It is pretty damn rare that you can get permission to do a dance on St Paul’s, and the odds are you’ll never see anything like it again." -- Time Out London

The event is free and unticketed. All you have to do is turn up…and look up.

Massive thanks to Greenwich+Docklands International Festival.


More show announcements next.

GDIF 2023 | Resurgam, St Paul's Cathedral "Defying gravity and confounding the imagination" – The New York Times

may be ending but our commitment to trans, gender-nonconforming and q***r artists is ongoing. BANDALOOP gives deep thanks to for premiering “____ former” a solo work performed by earlier this month. In awe of the community of truthtellers who light and lead the way to our collective liberation, healing and JOY 💕✨

Greetings Texas!! We're coming to the Wildflower Arts & Music Festival, presented in partnership with Charles W. Eisemann Center for Performing Arts. If you're in Dallas area, please come through this Friday & Saturday!

BANDALOOP INSPIRES WONDER ON WALLS OF EISEMANN CENTER | WIldflower! Arts & Music Festival BANDALOOP INSPIRES WONDER ON WALLS OF EISEMANN CENTER May 16, 2023 | Blog & News, Entertainment Wildflower! Arts & Music Festival, in partnership with the Charles W. Eisemann Center, presents BANDALOOP on May 19-20 in an immersive and dynamic approach to activating public space within the Patterson....

Learn how to BANDALOOP in nature where this art form originated nearly 3 decades ago! Join us for the mountain workshop in the Eastern Sierra where our founder Amelia Rudolph () will show you the ropes! It’s truly a one-of-a-kind experience!

June 13-17. Ages 18+.
Register via www.bandaloopstudio.com

“We welcome all curious movers including beginners to this workshop. We will also challenge more experienced vertical dancers to expand their capacity and movement lexicon- all in the mystical splendor of the Sierra.” —Amelia Rudolph

🌱 SPRING KICKOFF 🌱 This spring we revel in renewal as we prepare for the opening of our expanded home studios in Oakland, CA later this year as Bay Area’s only dedicated vertical dance studio and school. The new BANDALOOP studios will more than double our capacity to create vertical works and to teach. We are expanding our education programs with a commitment towards inclusion, diversity, equity and access.

****A donation in April goes directly to support student scholarships and teacher salaries so that anyone who wants to can practice this life-affirming dance form!*****

HELP US GROW.
🔗: Visit bandaloop.org/support

How are you all doing? We’re busy making shadows on walls. Our Spring kickoff announcement is next.

We got your back 💪

Angelenos, you ready?

One person’s craziness is another person’s reality.
—Tim Burton

Join us this Sat and Sun on the façade of in Los Angeles 🏨 Free 25-minute shows at 1pm & 4pm or buy VIP tickets to access preferred viewing area & cocktails 🍸

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Hello Arizona!!! 🏈🤘✨

We’re coming to Los Angeles!
📍: Fairmont Century Plaza
🗓️: Feb 18-19
🎫: https://www.fairmontcenturyplaza.com/event/the-vertical-stage-aerial-dance-performance/

Soaring into weekend 💙
(Don’t get left behind)

thank you for our partnership that made this possible. We ❤️ Santigao 🇺🇸🇨🇱

Mucho gusto Santiago 🇨🇱

2023 kicks off with an incredible public art endeavor with Rehearsals are underway!

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Vertical dance for the next generation ❤️😍🙌 “BANDALOOP education programs are transformative, confidence building and inspiring for all types of students, even those who don’t aspire to be dancers. It invites anyone to discover how strong they are in mind, body and spirit while deepening skills in collaboration and communication.” — (BANDALOOP Dancer & Director of Education, and Alum)

Thank you for considering a tax deductible gift to help ignite the imagination of young people.

Easy credit card donation via the link in bio. No signup required 🤝

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On this I hope you will consider making a tax-deductible gift and help BANDALOOP ignite the imagination of the next generation. -Rose Huey, BANDALOOP Dancer & Director of Education

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***A Message from Rose Huey, Our Director of Education***

BANDALOOP is more than just a vertical dance company. We are educators, creators, storytellers and community builders. We ignite imagination and bend the perspective of what is possible. We bring awe inspiring public art performances to audiences across the globe but always return to our roots in Oakland. We bring that energy home to local arts partnerships, students and programs for young people.

I know about the transformative nature of these programs because not only am I a BANDALOOP dancer and Director of Education…I’m also an alum. My family enrolled me in dance and martial arts classes at Destiny Arts Center when I was a young child and through Destiny's partnership with BANDALOOP, I was introduced to vertical dance. I will never forget the first time I saw a group of BANDALOOP performers enter over a roof edge and transform a grey wall in West Oakland into a magnificent dance floor. I was captivated.

I am incredibly grateful to those teachers who helped awaken in me a passion that would build a deep well of joy and strength I could draw from for years to come. My hope is that many more young people can be given an opportunity like I was. BANDALOOP programs can be transformative, confidence building, and inspiring for all types of students, even those who don’t aspire to be dancers. It invites anyone to discover how strong they are in mind, body and spirit while deepening skills in collaboration and communication.