BANDALOOP and FORT MASON CENTER invite you to
THE WORLD PREMIERE OF

“HARBORING”

Thursday, July 18 at 8:30pm*, plus post show Gala
Friday, July 19 at 8:30pm
Saturday, July 20 at 2:00pm Family Matinee and 8:30pm
Sunday, July 21 at 8:30pm

*OPENING NIGHT GALA RECEPTION & PRIVATE BACKSTAGE TOUR
Thursday, July 18
8:30pm Performance
9:30pm Post-show Gala

Fort Mason Center Festival Pavilion
2 Marina Blvd. at Buchanan St.
San Francisco, CA 94123
Directions

Staged in and around Fort Mason Center’s iconic Festival Pavilion and inspired by Fort Mason’s past and present, this world premiere moves through images of travel, memory, the fluidity of the ocean, rope craft and maritime industry using the medium of site-reactive multi-dimensional dance. Harboring will engage the space and interactive set pieces including a stack of shipping containers and a swinging frame/vessel to draw the viewer into an immersive experience.

Harboring is choreographed by Amelia Rudolph in collaboration with assistant artistic director Rachael Lincoln and the dancers of BANDALOOP, with art direction by Jack Carpenter. With collaborators Todd Laby, set; Jim French, lighting; Gideon Freudmann, Mark Orton and Jesse Olsen Bay, music; Jamielyn Duggan, costumes.

The creation and production of Harboring is generously funded by the Kenneth Rainin Foundation.

Photo Credit: Matt Haber

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“Trisha Brown is among the top most influential choreographers of the 20th/21st century whose groundbreaking experiments in the 70s pushed the definition and understanding of what dance is. Among her most famous works are “Roof Piece” (1971) and “Man Walking Down the Side of a Building” (1970) both of which put dance on architecture in public space. Her movement style was one of the first to ask dancers to move with release and naturalness on the concert stage. Both the idea of working in public space and that of released movement are central to how I think about my own work and seeing her dances in the 80s stimulated my imagination as a mover and dance maker. The inspiration that got me dancing on buildings was born from my experience as a climber,  however in the context of post modern dance in America, it can be seen as a flowering of Trisha’s idea-that dance can take place on a vertical stage and in public space.  Last week I was honored to perform “(Wo)Man Walking Down the Side of a Building” for UCLA’s  major retrospective of Brown’s work. I worked closely with Diane Madden, associate artistic director of TBDC to re-create the piece true to Brown’s original intention. The experience was unforgettable. When I performed the piece, (which I did three times), it felt like I was casting a spell and was part of it. The piece takes place in silence and involves “simply” walking down the building. Each slight weight shift becomes monumental. My goal was to have it look like a person just walking, albeit in slow motion and on a building. After Friday’s show, I partook in a panel hosted by Kristy Edmunds, UCLA’s Center for the Art of Performance Artistic Director and was joined by choreographers Lionel Popkin and Simone Forti as well as Trisha Brown dancer Laurel Tentindo. To be part of honoring dance history this way has been one of the most profoundly inspiring dance experiences I have ever had.” – Ameila

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And here’s a photo of me rehearsing for “Man Walking…” on our wall in Oakland today!

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The work will respond to the transitional place Ft. Mason is and was, employing vertical, floor-based and aerial site-reactive dance to draw the viewer into an immersive experience. Using both an outdoor site and the interior of the vast pavilion as a three-dimensional canvas, “Harboring” will use dynamic rigging systems, the dancers’ bodies, and interactive set pieces to engage the architecture of the spaces.

The event will disrupt traditional performance style by asking the audience to invest in it through participation: members will pass through the spaces as a group to experience different sites, mingle and talk with each other at intervals, contribute memories and discuss dreams through various portals.

SAVE THE DATES!
July 18, 19, 20 & 21, 2013

Once known as the San Francisco Port of Embarkation, Ft. Mason is situated between a vast ocean and a bustling urban landscape. With a military past and a cultural present, Ft. Mason has witnessed countless transitions, both physical and metaphorical. “Harboring” will springboard off images of ancestry, the ocean, travel, rope craft, floating, harboring and anchoring, as well as the intimate juxtaposition of the social world of the city, and the retraining of order in urban spaces. http://www.fortmason.org/

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Featuring:
Amelia Rudolph, Founder/Artistic Director
Rachael Lincoln, Assistant Artistic Director
Thomas Cavanagh, Executive Director
Dancers: Rachael Lincoln, Melecio Estrella, Andrew Ward, Damara Vita Ganley, Anje Lockhart, Roel Seeber
Riggers: Peter Mayfield, Derrick Lindsay
Original Music composed by Dana Leong (cello/trombone) performed by Dana Leong Trio feat. DJ Icewater (turntables) and John Shannon (guitar)

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Integrative Art Through Free Public Performance
A Panel Session at APAP | NYC 2013

Ken Farmer, Creative Director, Nuit Blanche
Chris Lorway, Executive Director, Soundstreams Canada
Pennie Ojeda, Director of International Activties, National Endowment for the Arts
Lucas Rivera, Director, Grand Park Downtown LA (The Music Center new programing initiative)
Amelia Rudolph, Artistic Director and Founder, Vertical Dance Group BANDALOOP
Debra Simon, Vice President, Arts Brookfield, Brookfield Office Properties
Cliff Wood, Executive Director, Downtown Providence Parks Conservancy

2012 arrived with a storm of new evocative public art happening globally and in marriage with the tide of technology. This session provides examples of how constituency involvement, social medium voice, and new partnerships are possible and measurable in moving art and audiences from the proscenium out to a more public sphere. It responds to the provocative statement “Audiences don’t come to see you. They come to see themselves.”

Through public partnership we can move the call and response to a new level and find results that are palpable. Moving your audiences and moving your art to the public sphere will further engage the expansion of art out from beneath the proscenium archway, in fact expanding the archway itself beyond the traditional theater. This panel seeks to de-mystify the risk for both the Artist and the Presenter alike.

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Also see photo album from this performance.

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SUN. JAN 13, 9:30am
Integrative Art Through Free Public Performance
APAP – Hilton New York & Towers Grand Ballroom, New York, NY

BANDALOOP Founder/Artistic Director Amelia Rudolph will speak on “Integrative Art Through Free Public Performance”. Other panelists include Ken Farmer, Creative Director for Nuit Blanche; Pennie Ojeda, Dir. of Intl. Activities, NEA; Lucas Rivera, Dir. of Grand Park, LA; Debra Simon, VP Arts Brookfield & Cliff Wood, Exec. Dir. Downtown Providence Parks Conservancy. Moderated by Chris Lorway, Soundstreams Canada.  More information

WED. JAN 16, 10:00am
PITCH NEW WORKS NOW
ISPA Congress – The Times Center, New York, NY

BANDALOOP Founder/Artistic Director Amelia Rudolph and musician/composer Dana Leong will give a presentation on their latest collaboration “Bound(less)”.

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