BANDALOOP

 

We invite you to join us in seeking awe in the everyday.

Get ready for the 2025 BANDALOOP Gala!    💛 Buy Tickets Now 💛 Tasting Flight, Performance & Fundraiser to Amplify Oakland Arts Bring your appetite, imagination, and generosity to our biggest fundraising event of the year! Saturday, April 5, 2025 5-9pm BANDALOOP Studios  1601 18th St Oakland, CA 94607 Performance from BANDALOOP  with special musical guests Destani Wolf and Ben Juodvalkis. Tasting Flight from Cafe Noir, Jo’s Modern Thai, Pomella, and Here & There and Open Bar featuring Brix Factory Brewing. Fund-a-Dream proceeds directly support BANDALOOP's free community events and artist development programs.  The 2025 BANDALOOP GALA Host Committee: Thomas Cavanagh, Laura Dorman, Joe Ernst, Laura Geist, Owen Modica, Jana Pastena, Tara Pillbrow, Brian Ripley, Amelia Rudolph, and Harv Singh   💛 Buy Tickets Now 💛 📣 Meet your MC for the night!  Autumn King Senior Director Marketing, Communications & Visitor Experience Oakland Museum of California (OMCA) 2025 GALA SPONSORS Top banner: BANDALOOP Harper's Bazaar feature with dancers Becca Dean and Jessica Swanson

Our mailing address is: BANDALOOP 1601 18th Street Oakland, CA 94607 Copyright © 2025 BANDALOOP, All rights reserved.

Gravity & Levity

 

We're feeling full of the joys of spring with lots of exciting events to look forward to! 🌼 First up is our big event of the spring - Dissecting Aerial 2025 (early bird deadline next week!) - followed by a couple of European workshops (Paris and Portugal) and of course our European Aerial Dance Festival in the summer. Read on for info and tickets, and to get these dates in the diary! Lindsey & the team at Gravity and Levity ❤️ Dissecting Aerial 2025 - 12th-13th April Just over three weeks until we open the doors to Dissecting Aerial 2025! 😍 We're thrilled to return to Brighton for an inspirational two days of presentations, talks and practical sessions, gathering aerial artists, researchers, body workers, and medical and sports science practitioners from across the globe. 🌎 Wherever you are in the world, do join us! You can grab an in-person ticket or join us via live streaming (to your home or studio).  The line-up this year is incredible! Here's what's in store: DAY 1: The ‘feltness’ of circus training & coaching: reflections & practical applications in flexibility & contortion - Dr Carolyn Ailsa Watt Concussion in the aerial arts - Dr Matilde Sassani Flying through pregnancy - ante & post-natal training for aerialists - Kate Edwards Pelvic floor health for aerialists - Brooke Winder Using physics to improve aerials (Part 1 - static) - Jacques Palardy-Dion Debunking Hair Suspension Myths: Rethinking Our Approach to Hair Hang - Nicole Malbeuf DAY 2: Bendy bodies, Bendy brains - Dr Jessica Eccles, AKA Dr Bendy Brain Creating aerial performance with access - Tilly Lee Kronnick, Jonny Leitch Creative audio description in movement practices - Karina Jones, Kate Lawrence Chest binding in circus - Izzy Kessnor Using physics to improve aerials (Part 2 - swinging) - Jacques Palardy-Dion Active physical & mental health recovery practices for aerial artists - Janelle Peters How to join us: Early Bird tickets discounted until Fri 28th March (end of next week - hurry!) 🎟️ Get your tickets here >> 📌 Location: Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts, Brighton 📆 Dates: Sat 12th + Sun 13th April 2024 Spotlight on Speakers ✨   Nicole Malbeuf (Day 1) New this year and a real treat for us all is Nicole Malbeuf, a Canadian circus artist specializing in aerial arts and hair suspension. 🎙️ With 7 years of hair hang experience, Nicole will be hosting a 60-min presentation + Q&A on 'Debunking Hair Suspension Myths: Rethinking Our Approach to Hair Hang' in which she'll share her personal experiences and research on the common misconceptions in hair suspension. Photo credit: Bryan Reid Dr Jessica Eccles AKA Dr Bendy Brain (Day 2) We're thrilled to welcome back Dr Jessica Eccles to #DA2025! Dr Eccles is a researcher and a neurodevelopmental psychiatrist specialising in the links between brain and body, especially as they relate to flexible joints (hypermobility). 🧠🧍 Dr Eccles will be talking about how brain and body are dynamically coupled, and drawing on her prize-winning work in the field of hypermobility/EDS. Izzi Kessner (Day 2) We can't wait to welcome multidisciplinary circus artist Izzi Kessner for their presentation on Chest Binding in Circus. Chest binding is a common, gender-affirming practice of restricting the chest, often utilised by trans-masculine individuals to reduce gender dysphoria. Izzi will cover the safety of chest binding in circus arts, based on a year-long research project. They will provide info for transgender circus artists curious about safe chest binding practices, circus educators looking to better support transgender artists, and training centres eager to create an inclusive space. Free & subsidised places - apply by tomorrow! Are you 'Up for it?’ 🤸‍♀️ We’re delighted to be able to offer a small number of free and subsidised places for D/deaf and disabled artists, and those who identify as under represented in the sector, for Dissecting Aerial. The deadline to apply is midnight TOMORROW, 20th March! Click here to apply and scroll down to Discounts >>> Subsidised places 📆 Applications must be received by 23:59 on Thursday 20th March. Successful participants will be notified by Friday 21st March. EADF 2025 - Tickets Open Next Week! Two exciting updates on the European Aerial Dance Festival (5th-16th Aug)... 1 - The draft timetable for this year's EADF is now OUT!  You'll have over 30 classes per day to choose from - including technique classes, creative labs and complementary training. Plus there will be weekend workshops on Sun 10th Aug, including specialist long lab workshops and taster sessions for the local community. Check out the timetable and get excited about what to sign up for! 📆 EADF 2025 Timetable >> NB. We're still working behind the scenes on the festival website, but the draft timetable is correct! 2 - Ticket sales open Saturday 29th March! Woohoo - mark your diaries for 29th March so you can be first to secure your tickets and book your classes! We'll post on our socials, but you heard it here first... 🥳 🥳 🎬 And check out our EADF video to get a taste of what's in store ⬇️ More Dates for the Diary 2025 Body Puzzles - Vertical Dance Workshop (Adv) 26th - 27th April 2025, Paris 🇫🇷 A few places left! Join Lindsey on this 2-day workshop in the gorgeous French capital to get curious and question your known vertical dance vocabulary; to find ease, discover new pathways and open up your dancing body and imagination. It's a fantastic chance to learn from Lindsey's exceptional technique in an intimate space. Details & Booking 📆 Saturday, April 26: 10am - 1pm / 2pm - 5pm 📆 Sunday April 27: 10am - 1pm / 2pm - 5pm Level: Advanced Location: Paris, France Find out more and book here >> Photo credit: Joanna Cordeiro Ferreira Dancing With The Trees - Portugal 16th - 19th May 2025, Mafra National Park We have a few spaces left on Dancing With The Tree in May! 🌳 This 4-day immersive retreat in Portugal's Mafra National Park was a highlight of last year and sold out. So grab your spot now if you fancy hanging out (literally) with Magalie Lanriot and I, and finding a little calm... it really is the most wonderful feeling dancing in the forest 😍 Course costs include accommodation and meals. Payments for the course, accommodation and meals will be settled separately. For more info and to book >>>> contact mlanriot@yahoo.fr 📆 Dates: 16th - 19th May 2025 🤸‍♂️ Hosts: Lindsey Butcher & Magalie Lanriot 10% Off At Firetoys And finally, we're happy to share our code for you to get 10% off at Firetoys! ✨ ➡️ Use this code at checkout: 10FOR10_25 Not only do YOU get 10% off...  But Firetoys donates 10% of sales to EADF when you use this code!  AND the code is valid across all Firetoys stores in the UK, EU & USA 🙌 Share the code with your aerial friends! 🔖 That's all for now - we can't wait to see you at our events this year! We'll keep you posted - and you can keep up to date on all the latest news on Instagram or Facebook. 🤸‍♂️ 📷 Photos & video Mark Morreau unless otherwise specified Were you forwarded this email? Sign up to our mailing list Copyright © 2025 Gravity & Levity, All rights reserved.  Our mailing address is:  Gravity & Levity 2A Prestonville Rd Brighton, East Sussex BN1 3TL

LaGlo Zirko Dantza

 

­ Espectáculos 2025 Contrataciones abiertas ­ ENSUEÑO Al dormir el cuerpo permanece como si estuviera muerto; no ve, no oye, no siente, no tiene conciencia ni percepción. Las facultades del hombre se vuelven inactivas pero el espíritu vive y subsiste. Es más, sus capacidades se vuelven más penetrantes, vuela más alto, su inteligencia es mayor. Pasamos casi un tercio de nuestras vidas durmiendo. Físicamente no podemos funcionar sin soñar, es básico como respirar o beber. ¿A dónde se van los sueños?. ¿Desaparecen o será que se quedan volando por el aire?. ¿Será que se mezclan en el colectivo?. Lo egitean, gorputza hilda balego bezala geratzen da; ez du ikusten, ez du entzuten, ez du sentitzen, ez du kontzientziarik ez pertzepziorik. Gizakiaren ahalmenak inaktibo bihurtzen dira, baina izpiritua bizi eta iraun egiten du. Are gehiago, bere gaitasunak sarkorragoak bihurtzen dira, gorago hegan egiten du, bere adimena handiagoa da. Gure bizitzaren ia herena lotan igaro genuen. Fisikoki ezin dugu ametsik egin gabe funtzionatu, oinarrizkoa da arnasa hartzea edo edatea. Nora doaz ametsak? Desagertzen dira ala airean hegan geratzen dira? Taldean nahasten ote dira? Dossier técnico Función de día Función de noche ­ PERSPECTIVAS PERSPECTIVA, como punto de vista tanto en un plano físico como emocional, es algo con lo que tenemos que lidiar en nuestras vidas; desde que nacemos hasta que morimos. Dado que los seres vivos atravesamos un complejo y en algunos casos, extenso desarrollo físico y mental, es comprensible que nuestra perspectiva se vea modificada más de una vez a lo largo de nuestra vida. Partiendo de nuestro crecimiento a nivel físico, que causa que veamos el mundo desde diferentes alturas durante los primeros años, una misma situación no causará el mismo efecto en las diferentes etapas de nuestra vida. Las experiencias nos aportan elementos que gradualmente alteran ciertos conceptos, lo cual desemboca inevitablemente en que cambie nuestra forma de entender el entorno y de reaccionar frente a los sucesos que nos rodean. Nuestro objetivo es indagar en diferentes perspectivas y poder experimentar a través de la danza estas diferentes visiones y perspectivas de abordar un concepto, nuestra herramienta la danza.   PERSPEKTIBA, ikuspegi fisiko zein emozional gisa, gure bizitzetan borrokatu behar dugun zerbait da; jaiotzen garenetik hiltzen garen arte Izaki bizidunok garapen fisiko eta mental konplexu eta zabala zeharkatzen dugunez, ulertzekoa da gure ikuspegia behin baino gehiagotan aldatzea gure bizitzan zehar. Maila fisikoan dugun hazkundetik abiatuta, lehen urteetan mundua altuera desberdinetatik ikustea eragiten duena, egoera berak ez du eragin bera izango gure bizitzako etapa ezberdinetan. Esperientziek hainbat kontzeptu pixkanaka aldatzen dituzten elementuak ematen dizkigute, eta horrek, ezinbestean, ingurunea ulertzeko eta inguruan ditugun gertakarien aurrean erreakzionatzeko dugun modua aldatzea dakar. Gure helburua da dantzaren bidez kontzeptu bati ekiteko ikuspegi eta ikuspegi horiek guztiak arakatzea eta esperimentatzea, gure tresna dantza baita. Dossier técnico ­ SACRED Desde lo más profundo del mar hasta la más lejana de las galaxias todo está conectado. Éste es el vínculo sagrado que nos une. Es la herencia del tiempo, la semilla de la creación que todos llevamos dentro.   En “SACRED” (Sagrado) proponemos un viaje por todas estas geometrías divinas que dan carácter a la vida. Un espectáculo de danza y proyección que invita a reflexionar sobre la nota que vibra en nosotros, dentro de la partitura del latido del universo.   Un espectáculo que no pueden perderse, para sentirlo que envolvemos y nos envuelve. Presentamos: “SACRED”       Itsasoaren sakonenetik galaxiarik urruneneraino dena dago konektatuta. Hori da elkartzen gaituen lotura sakratua. Denboraren herentzia da, denok barruan daramagun sorkuntzaren hazia.   “SACRED” (Sakratua) lanean, bizitzari izaera ematen dioten geometria jainkotiar horiek guztiak ezagutzeko bidaia proposatzen dugu.    Unibertsoaren taupadaren partituraren baitan, gugan dar-dar egiten duen notari buruz hausnartzera gonbidatzen duen dantza eta proiekzio ikuskizuna.   Dossier técnico ­ WEB *Todos los espectáculos tienen opción de Site Specific *Consultar caché y ofertas disponibles para CAV u otras comunidades LaGlo Zirko Dantza C/Cortes 35 bajo 48003 Bilbao Tel: 687 83 15 41 Mail: laglozirkodantza@gmail.com