BANDALOOP

 

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

BANDALOOP performance in Dallas, TX. Photos by @rolling_lens_photography AS BANDALOOP SPRING TOUR WRAPS, WE ARE READY TO ACTIVATE AT HOME IN OAKLAND It's been a thrilling spring season, having just premiered our newest work "Downstream" at the Green Music Center at Sonoma State, with stops in La Jolla, CA and Dallas, TX leading up to it. We now return to Oakland for a series of significant events in which we hope you will partake. Our work with community through our home base in West Oakland is the bedrock of our vision: to bring awe and wellness through free public art and education. Join us! TOMORROW APR 28 SPRING SWING OPEN HOUSE  FREE Dance, Music, Climbing, and Performances for ALL ages! RSVP below to save your spot. Sunday, April 28 Spring Swing Open House - FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC! BANDALOOP Studios Oakland, CA RSVP for Spring Swing Open House! OUR INAUGURAL GALA IS ON MAY 11!  We are extremely excited about our big night coming up. This will be our inaugural gala in our new space, bringing together the leaders, movers, and shakers who will help us expand the possibilities of our work in Oakland and beyond.  Saturday, May 11 The BANDALOOP Gala: The Sky Is Not The Limit BANDALOOP Studios Oakland, CA Only a few seats left! Sales End April 30th.   Buy Gala Tickets! TWO ARTISTS-IN-RESIDENCE ANNOUNCED In 2021 we launched the Updraft Artist-In-Residence program to promote vertical dance to historically marginalized dance artists and inclusively advance a dance form that is relatively new to the field. Paused during the renovation of our home studio 2022-2023, Updraft AIR program supports artists who identify as QTBIPOC and has relaunched this year with support from the National Endowment for the Arts. We're thrilled to welcome 2024 artists-in-residence: Kim Ip and gizeh muñiz vengel!   Learn More

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BANDALOOP

 Open Level Summer Intensive

photo: Skip Kirk

Early bird (before May 1) $825
Later bird (after May 1) $875 
2-weeks (combined with ASCENDED Intensive): 10% discount

Registration via ClassBug

10:00am-5:00pm

July 29 - August 3, 2024
Monday - Wednesday, Friday - Saturday, Thursday off for a rest day.

Ages 16+

Immerse yourself in 5 days of BANDALOOPing! 

Grounded in BANDALOOP’s Culture of Safety, daily practice will consist of on the ground technique class: warming, strengthening, releasing and articulating the body with precision, momentum and joy. 

BANDALOOPing technique: drawing on decades of experience, we will find flight with rope and harness. Fundamentals of safety, gear training, sound body mechanics, harness dance, partnering and recuperative techniques mix into full-bodied, dynamic, multi-directional dancing. Vertical Dance Composition and Performance: Explore site-responsive  composition tools and the vast possibilities of vertical space. Be supported and inspired to make dances, learn repertory, collaborate and co-inspire as a group. 

Big Wall Training: take all the technique, skills, choreography and safety from the studio to an outdoor dance wall. Experience rooftop load-ins and big loft. Feel what it is like to dance with 100ft of rope! All gear will be supplied. 

Wednesday afternoon and Saturday will take place on an outdoor dance wall in Oakland. 

Additional events include an evening gathering hosted by BANDALOOP Leadership.

BANDALOOP ASCENDED Intermediate Adult Intensive

photo: Skip Kirk

Early bird (before May 1) $900 
Later bird (after May 1) $950
2-weeks (combined with Open Level Intensive): 10% discount 

Registration via ClassBug

10:00am - 5:00pm 

August 5-10
Monday - Wednesday, Friday - Saturday, Thursday off for a rest day. 

Ages 16+

This is a continuing workshop for committed dancers who want to take their vertical dancing to the next level. A perfect pairing with our previous summer intensive week, BANDALOOP Ascended will focus on advanced vertical dance skills, choreographic tools, performance presence, BANDALOOP repertory and body wellness. A focus of this week will be adapting the skills, technique and safety awareness developed in the studio to an outdoor dance wall. Students will have multiple opportunities to train with big loft and experience rooftop load-ins. All gear will be supplied.

This week includes two full days on an outdoor dance wall in Oakland. 

Additional events include an evening gathering hosted by BANDALOOP Leadership.

Prerequisites: BANDALOOPing Open Level Intensive or equivalent BANDALOOP training. Experienced vertical dancers can apply to attend by sending brief details of experience and a vertical dance video sample. Video work samples should demonstrate the student's ability to take off and land safely, run a pendulum, and rotate in space. Send work samples and questions to workshop@bandaloop.org.

BANDALOOPING Advanced Adult Intensive

photo: Skip Kirk

Early bird (before May 1) $975
Later bird (after May 1) $1,000

Registration via ClassBug

10:00am - 5:00pm 

August 12-17
Monday - Wednesday, Friday - Saturday, Thursday off for a rest day. 

Ages 18+

Designed for advanced level vertical dancers, this intensive will take students to new heights with rigorous and expansive dance training. Grounded in BANDALOOP’s Culture of Safety students will incubate new ideas, pursue curiosities, and learn and create choreographic phrases together.

We will start in the newly renovated BANDALOOP Studios, using the vertical trampoline, hard walls and low fly free hanging space to research, share and learn with each other. From there, we will spend 3 days on an outdoor dance wall, training and playing with up to 100 feet of loft. 

Every day will begin with an opening circle, include a thorough on the ground dance warm up to activate the articulate, dynamic body, vertical dance rotations, and a restorative cool down. Connect with fellow vertical dancers, learn from BANDALOOP company dancers and alumni, and join us as we continue to push the boundaries of what’s possible. 

This week includes three full days on an outdoor dance wall in Oakland. 

Additional events include an evening gathering hosted by BANDALOOP Leadership.

Registration by video audition. Advanced vertical dancers can apply to attend by sending brief details of experience and a vertical dance video sample. Video work samples should demonstrate; safely leaving and returning to the wall, running and rotating on pendulum, and full bodied expressive vertical dancing. Please also send a one minute video of you dancing on the ground. This could be improvisation or choreography. We want to see your articulate creative expressive dancing on the ground too! 

All work samples and questions can be sent to workshop@bandaloop.org.

Laterrateral

Spring is just around the corner, and we're delighted to invite you to the premiere of our show-in-progress

on May 9 at the Festival Sortilèges, Rue et Vous,  

at the Burbant Tower in Ath, Belgium Co-hosted by the Maison culturelle d'Ath and the Service des Arts de la Scène de la Province de Hainaut.  

This new performance shows four dancers take over the wall of a building, exploring this unusual space through their free, unstructured or spirited movements, mixed with ensemble choreography and acrobatics. Their bodies tell a story of encounters, estrangements, mutual aid, risk-taking and shocks that reveal their strengths and individuality. 

Flying, colliding, dancing, EntreChok is an invitation to dare to let go, in order to temporarily rediscover the power of our whole self. 

We spent a wonderful week at La Roseraie, Uccle, working on drums rhythm with and thanks to Judith Léonardon's rhythmic coaching! 

 

Next step: residency at the Rockerill in Charleroi! 

https://www.rockerill.com/ 

We're so lucky to be able to set up our equipment in this great, atypical place, full of history... and above all, with a wall that allows us to have a shelter from the harsh weather! 

 

In the occasion of its Premiere on 9^th May in the Burbant tower in Ath at the Festival Sortilèges, LaterralateraL will also offer you a 

Vertical dance workshop on 11^th and 12^th May 2024, from 10 AM to 5.30 PM

We'd also like to introduce our new collaboration with Clémentine Albrek, who will be in charge of the distribution of our work! 

Here is her precious contact! 

Clémentine Albrek +32 487 668 477 diff.clementiel@gmail.com 

If you have any questions about our productions, you can contact 

Sara Molon + 32 493 789 000 sara@cirkenstok.be 

Feel free to have a look, again and again, at our website 

http://laterrateral.be/ 

Legs On The Wall

 

Legs on the EDGE Come see us fly THIS WEEKEND (April 6 & 7) for FREE at White Bay Power Station as EDGE Inner West kicks off 3 weekends of new work and reimagined commissions by the Inner West Council as a part of the 24th Biennale of Sydney. HIVE OF INDUSTRY sees our incredible aerialists Anna McCulla and Remy Rochester soar through the Boiler House, their bodies contrasted by the sheer scale of the early 20th Century architecture. And it's not just us; check out the link below for the full weekend schedule and to see all the other amazing artists line up. ⛓ Free admission ⚙️ 4pm Saturday 6th April 🔧 4pm Sunday 7th April ⛓   Click here for more info on EDGE Inner West!  APRIL WORKSHOP SERIES AT THE RED BOX Join us in the Red Box for floor work with Joshua Thomson, and some lyra, silks, and trapeze with aerial dream team Catherine Wait aka Missy and J Twist! ✨ Fri 12 April: INTRO TO FLOOR WORK with Joshua. 10-11am Open Training, 11am-1pm Workshop 💫 Fri 19 April: INTRO TO AERIALS by Catherine aka Missy and J Twist. 10-11am Open Training, 11am-1pm Workshop ⭐️ Fri 26 April: INTRO TO AERIALS by Catherine aka Missy and J Twist. 10-11am Open Training, 11am-1pm Workshop  Click here to Register!  CREATIVE PLANET Leap, fly and kick against gravity in our physical theatre Creative Planet workshops at Bondi Pavilion on the 20th & 21st April A whole range of workshops skills for a whole range of ages - starting at 6 years and up to 18 years. Head to the link below for more details and to register  Click here for Creative Planet  MARDI GRAS We had the BEST time strutting our stuff along Oxford Street for the 2024 Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras a few weeks ago. Check out our gallery here. We send our love to all our LGBTQIA+ family across the world 🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ Legs On The Wall, 91 Canal Rd, Lilyfield, Australia Powered by Squarespace