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.
STS9 at the Quarry Amplitheather
Sound Tribe Sector 9 (STS9) is an instrumental band whose sound is based heavily on instrumental rock and electronic music, funk, jazz, drum and bass, psychedelia, and hip hop, originating in Georgia, United States. Self-described as "post-rock dance music,"[3] the band mixes standard live rock instrumentation with electronics, favoring group rhythm over individual solos.
Acclaimed Singer-songwriter Carla Morrison at the Quarry Amphitheater
Noise Pop and The Quarry Amphitheater Present: El Renacimiento Tour with Carla Morrison
Pamela Z at the Rio Theater
Pamela Z is a composer/performer and media artist working with voice, live electronic processing, sampled sound, and video. A pioneer of live digital looping techniques, she processes her voice in real-time to create dense, complex sonic layers. Her solo works combine experimental extended vocal techniques, operatic bel canto, found objects, text, and sampled concrete sounds.
Nishat Khan and David Murray in concert at the Rio Theater
This event was part of Surge: Explorations in Afrofuturism, a multidimensional and transcultural month-long festival on Afrofuturism spearheaded by composer/performer Karlton Hester, choreographer Gerald Casel, and artist Aaron Samuel Mulenga. Afrofuturism is a global artistic and social movement, intent on imagining a world where African-descended peoples and cultures can live and flourish. For Surge, an extended program of music and dance performances, film screenings, and discussions will bring together artists and thinkers to creatively engage Afrofuturist strategies for liberation and the restructuring of society free of racism
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.
First Monday Jazz Presents Meagan McNeal at the Green Line Performing Arts Center
First Monday Jazz Presents Meagan McNeal at the Green Line Performing Arts Center
Black Artists Retreat 2019: Sonic Imagination at the Park Avenue Armory
Black Artists Retreat 2019: Sonic Imagination! | Park Avenue Armory
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