BANDALOOP CELEBRATES 30TH ANNIVERSARY WITH FREE OUTDOOR PERFORMANCE “LOOM:FIELD” - APRIL 15 & 16, 2022

Performance Dates:
Fri. April 15, 8pm
Sat. April 16, 5pm*** & 8pm

All performances are free and open to the public and require no tickets.

Location:
441 West Grand, Uptown Oakland

***Sat. April 16th 5pm show is a family-friendly performance featuring opening set by Alphabet Rockers. Live Audio Description and Haptic Access Tour by Gabriel Christian of Gravity Access Services for visually impaired audience members. Haptic Access Tour begins at 4:00pm. Please call 760-957-5564 to pre-register and reserve a headset. ASL provided through Urban Jazz Dance Company's Access Services.

Grand Avenue will be closed to traffic, offering seated and picnic viewing areas. Bring blankets and camping chairs.

ATTENTION! BANDALOOP is looking for volunteers for these performances. Volunteers can enjoy the performance on the evening that they work, and will receive a free BANDALOOP t-shirt! Sign up here!

LOOM:FIELD

Directed by Melecio Estrella
Choreography by Melecio Estrella and the BANDALOOP dancers
Collaborators include ninth-generation Nigerian weaver and costume designer IB Bayo, theater artist Chibueze Crouch, vocalist Destani Wolf, composer Ben Juodvalkis, lighting designer Jim French, sustainability strategist Catherine Botrill, and regenerative textile educator, Kristine Vejar of A Verb For Keeping Warm
BANDALOOP dancers: Jose Abad, Becca Dean, Rose Huey, Sarah Keeney, Courtney Moreno, Wailana Simcock, Samuel-Melecio Zambrano
Brooke Anderson, Rigger
Sara Estrella, Wardrobe Master
Mike Rogers, Technical Director
Matt Leonard, Production Manager
Zeph Fishlyn, Russell Tamura, Stagehands / Junior Riggers
Maude Wilson, Stage Manager
Skip Kirk, Rehearsal Steward
Shantini Munthree, Rika Iino, Marketing
Valerie Mendez, Operations Administrator
Chelsea Brown, Operations Manager
Thomas Cavanagh, Executive Producer

Oakland-based innovator of vertical dance BANDALOOP, activator of international public spaces with awe-inspiring, perspective-changing mid-air performances, will celebrate its 30th anniversary by unveiling a new large-scale outdoor work titled LOOM:FIELD. Performed high above uptown Oakland on the side of the art deco Breuner Building, LOOM:FIELD is the centerpiece of the LOOM trilogy, a multi-year initiative bringing together a collective of performing artists, climate scientists, regenerative textile artists, a visual technologist, and creative riggers to create performances that deepen and challenge perspectives on the art and industry of textiles. Transforming the building’s façade into a giant loom where stories and dances interlace, LOOM:FIELD is directed by Melecio Estrella and marks the first major work by the company since Estrella assumed the position following Founding Artistic Director Amelia Rudolph’s shift to Director of Special Projects. “LOOM lifts up the social, the environmental, and the ancestral aspects of fabric and fashion,” says Estrella.

a New england foundation for the arts’ National dance project AWARD RECIPIENT - 2022

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WITH SUPPORT FROM:

• Creative Work Fund

• The National Endowment for the Arts

• The Fleishhacker Foundation

• The Kenneth Rainin Foundation

• The CA Arts Council

• City of Oakland

• Morrison & Foerster