Our Journal
Our record and approach for reflection so that we can learn from our experiences and use them as lessons that we can apply towards future projects.
We invite you to use it as a source for inspiration.
You’ll find content covering our past and current projects to resources for artists and nonprofits.
LOOM:FIELD by BANDALOOP at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History
LOOM is a trilogy of large-scale, outdoor public vertical dance pieces directed by BANDALOOP Artistic Director Melecio Estrella that deepens and challenges our perspective on the art and industry of textiles. Bringing together a collective of performing artists, climate scientists, regenerative textile artists, a visual technologist, and creative riggers, the evening-length piece turns a building’s façade into a giant loom where stories and dances interlace. The result of this multi-layered collaboration is 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 locates BANDALOOP’s core technical framework in a textile lineage.
Centennial celebration of La Mesa del Santo Niño de Atocha y Virgen De San Juan De Los Lagos
Centennial celebration of La Mesa del Santo Niño de Atocha y Virgen De San Juan De Los Lagos. La Mesa del Santo Niño de Atocha was founded in 1922 by General de Conquista Ernesto Ortiz Ramirez and is now led by Capitana Maria Mercedes Lopez Ortiz..
NOT ABOUT RACE DANCE
A special performance, in collaboration with GERALDCASELDANCE and featuring an all-BIPOC dance ensemble, titled: Not About Race Dance— a collaborative, choreographic response to the unacknowledged racial politics in U.S. postmodern dance. This event is part of Surge: Explorations in Afrofuturism, a multidimensional and transcultural month-long festival on Afrofuturism.
How Cultural Rituals and Healing Ceremonies Can Strengthen Our Movements
There is a remarkable history of Black and Brown unity, dating back to the Great Migrations of African-Americans and Mexicans to Chicago.
Xochitl-Quetzal Aztec Dance Performance at Little Red Schoolhouse and Nature Center
Xochitl-Quetzal Aztec Dance at Little Red School house and Nature Center
Xochitl-Quetzal Aztec Flower and Dance Ceremony
Aztec and African Cultural Song and Flower Ceremony & Dance Celebration. Black and Brown Unity Event
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