Sat April 16, 2022
BANDALOOP presents "LOOM:FIELD"
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at Breuner Building
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Bandaloop celebrates 30th Anniversary with free outdoor performance "LOOM:FIELD". "LOOM:FIELD" offers audiences a 45-minute vertical dance performance set to original live music, that fuses intricate choreography and climbing technology to offer a narrative of ancestral weaving mythologies, traditional techniques of fabric creation, expressions of the ecological and social impacts of a globalized textile industry, and the influence of technological fibers that connect and divide. Although one of the largest polluting industries in the world, the impact of clothing and fashion is often overlooked in modern consumer lifestyles. Fraught with devastating globalized labor and farming practices, the fallout of textile consumption will be dealt with for generations to come. "LOOM:FIELD" juxtaposes this large-scale ecological crisis with the timeless cross-cultural power of fabric to hold, comfort, adorn, and sanctify the human experience. Fabric stories are drawn from the swaddling blanket, the altar cloth, the death shroud, and the fishing net. "LOOM:FIELD" also weaves in the community building and therapeutic aspects of handmaking techniques; the focused rhythms of stitching, knitting, spinning, and weaving of fiber into cloth.
Choreography for "LOOM:FIELD" was developed by Melecio Estrella and the BANDALOOP dancers. Collaborators for the production include ninth-generation Nigerian weaver and costume designer IB Bayo, theater artist Chibueze Crouch, composer Ben Juodvalkis, and lighting designer Jim French. The result of this multi-layered collaboration is an evening of dance theater featuring spoken word, vertical dance, fabric manipulation, film segments, and original music. As vertical dance is a form that relies on state-of-the-science woven nylon climbing ropes, "LOOM:FIELD" locates BANDALOOP's core technical framework in a textile lineage. The first installment of the "LOOM" trilogy, titled "FLOOD", premiered in February 2020 at the grand opening of The Momentary, a contemporary visual, performing, and culinary arts space in Northwest Arkansas. The second installment, "FIELD", premiered in Atlanta, Georgia, in October 2021. "LOOM:FIELD", after its hometown premiere in Oakland, California, will tour nationally through spring of 2023 before work on the third installment, "FLOCK", begins.
Friday April 15 at 8pm
Saturday April 16 at *5pm & 8pm
*Family-friendly performance featuring opening set by Alphabet Rockers
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Choreography for "LOOM:FIELD" was developed by Melecio Estrella and the BANDALOOP dancers. Collaborators for the production include ninth-generation Nigerian weaver and costume designer IB Bayo, theater artist Chibueze Crouch, composer Ben Juodvalkis, and lighting designer Jim French. The result of this multi-layered collaboration is an evening of dance theater featuring spoken word, vertical dance, fabric manipulation, film segments, and original music. As vertical dance is a form that relies on state-of-the-science woven nylon climbing ropes, "LOOM:FIELD" locates BANDALOOP's core technical framework in a textile lineage. The first installment of the "LOOM" trilogy, titled "FLOOD", premiered in February 2020 at the grand opening of The Momentary, a contemporary visual, performing, and culinary arts space in Northwest Arkansas. The second installment, "FIELD", premiered in Atlanta, Georgia, in October 2021. "LOOM:FIELD", after its hometown premiere in Oakland, California, will tour nationally through spring of 2023 before work on the third installment, "FLOCK", begins.
Friday April 15 at 8pm
Saturday April 16 at *5pm & 8pm
*Family-friendly performance featuring opening set by Alphabet Rockers
Bandaloop celebrates 30th Anniversary with free outdoor performance "LOOM:FIELD". "LOOM:FIELD" offers audiences a 45-minute vertical dance performance set to original live music, that fuses intricate choreography and climbing technology to offer a narrative of ancestral weaving mythologies, traditional techniques of fabric creation, expressions of the ecological and social impacts of a globalized textile industry, and the influence of technological fibers that connect and divide. Although one of the largest polluting industries in the world, the impact of clothing and fashion is often overlooked in modern consumer lifestyles. Fraught with devastating globalized labor and farming practices, the fallout of textile consumption will be dealt with for generations to come. "LOOM:FIELD" juxtaposes this large-scale ecological crisis with the timeless cross-cultural power of fabric to hold, comfort, adorn, and sanctify the human experience. Fabric stories are drawn from the swaddling blanket, the altar cloth, the death shroud, and the fishing net. "LOOM:FIELD" also weaves in the community building and therapeutic aspects of handmaking techniques; the focused rhythms of stitching, knitting, spinning, and weaving of fiber into cloth.
Choreography for "LOOM:FIELD" was developed by Melecio Estrella and the BANDALOOP dancers. Collaborators for the production include ninth-generation Nigerian weaver and costume designer IB Bayo, theater artist Chibueze Crouch, composer Ben Juodvalkis, and lighting designer Jim French. The result of this multi-layered collaboration is an evening of dance theater featuring spoken word, vertical dance, fabric manipulation, film segments, and original music. As vertical dance is a form that relies on state-of-the-science woven nylon climbing ropes, "LOOM:FIELD" locates BANDALOOP's core technical framework in a textile lineage. The first installment of the "LOOM" trilogy, titled "FLOOD", premiered in February 2020 at the grand opening of The Momentary, a contemporary visual, performing, and culinary arts space in Northwest Arkansas. The second installment, "FIELD", premiered in Atlanta, Georgia, in October 2021. "LOOM:FIELD", after its hometown premiere in Oakland, California, will tour nationally through spring of 2023 before work on the third installment, "FLOCK", begins.
Friday April 15 at 8pm
Saturday April 16 at *5pm & 8pm
*Family-friendly performance featuring opening set by Alphabet Rockers
read more
Choreography for "LOOM:FIELD" was developed by Melecio Estrella and the BANDALOOP dancers. Collaborators for the production include ninth-generation Nigerian weaver and costume designer IB Bayo, theater artist Chibueze Crouch, composer Ben Juodvalkis, and lighting designer Jim French. The result of this multi-layered collaboration is an evening of dance theater featuring spoken word, vertical dance, fabric manipulation, film segments, and original music. As vertical dance is a form that relies on state-of-the-science woven nylon climbing ropes, "LOOM:FIELD" locates BANDALOOP's core technical framework in a textile lineage. The first installment of the "LOOM" trilogy, titled "FLOOD", premiered in February 2020 at the grand opening of The Momentary, a contemporary visual, performing, and culinary arts space in Northwest Arkansas. The second installment, "FIELD", premiered in Atlanta, Georgia, in October 2021. "LOOM:FIELD", after its hometown premiere in Oakland, California, will tour nationally through spring of 2023 before work on the third installment, "FLOCK", begins.
Friday April 15 at 8pm
Saturday April 16 at *5pm & 8pm
*Family-friendly performance featuring opening set by Alphabet Rockers
show less
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Breuner Building
Grand at Broadway, Oakland, CA 94612
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