BANDALOOP | Oakland, CA
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BANDALOOP honors nature, community, and the human spirit through perspective-bending dance. A pioneer in vertical performance, BANDALOOP seamlessly weaves dynamic physicality and intricate choreography with climbing technology to turn the dance floor on its side. Under the artistic direction of Amelia Rudolph, the work re-imagines dance, activates public spaces, and inspires wonder and imagination in audiences around the world. BANDALOOP trains dancers and youth at home and on tour, and has performed live for close to a million people.

Amelia Rudolph founded BANDALOOP in 1991 creating a dance company that united her passion for movement, climbing, artistic expression, and connection to the environment. Over the last twenty years, Amelia, along with dedicated dancers and staff, has created a company that encourages brave thinking and physical vibrancy through dance, attracts daring audiences and students and inspires joy and wonder through performances and teaching. The work provokes surprising altered perspectives on dance, gravity and performance space.

BANDALOOP is based in San Francisco and has a studio in West Oakland, where the company creates work for its bi-annual Home Season and for 15-30 touring performances presented throughout the U.S. and around the globe each year. Highlights of the past ten years of creation and production include a free outdoor two week festival celebrating their 20th Anniversary, attracting upwards of 8000 people to free performances at three different Bay Area sites; a tour of India, sponsored by the US State Department, including performances on the historic Golconda Fort and the LIC building in central Delhi for crowds of 15,000; a performance in Norway in 2008 in the fjords above Stavanger as part of the European Capital of Culture Festival; an 18-day "performance" crossing the Sierra; a sold-out show at the 5,000-seat WolfTrap Center for the Performing Arts, coupled with the filming of "Luminescent Flights" 2,400 feet up on a cliff in Yosemite for that performance (as seen on PBS's "Great Performances") performances at the Kennedy Center, the Grand Auditorium in Macau, the national museum of Singapore, China, and on architectural landmarks and skyscrapers across the country and around the world including in San Francisco, Sao Paulo, Mumbai, Seoul, Soweto, Verona, Lisbon, Muscat, Atlanta, Houston, New York and other urban centers.