2020 · Film / video score
Breathe Through
Archive folder: Breathe Through (film)
Melecio Estrella (artistic director); filmed and edited by Jessica Swanson · BANDALOOP
A roughly four-minute BANDALOOP dance film made as an artistic response to shelter-in-place and the shift to mass mask-wearing in 2020. It has an original score by Ben Juodvalkis that moves from melancholy toward a dreamlike, transcendent quality.
- Premiere
- 2020-08
- Venue
- Online release (YouTube)
- Where
- Oakland, CA
- Performances
- Pre-release viewing for company Aug 14, 2020; public roll-out in the following weeks.
- Credits
- Direction: Melecio Estrella. Filming/editing: Jessica Swanson. Original music and sound: Ben Juodvalkis. Dancers: Becca Dean, Roel Seeber, Courtney Moreno, Rose Huey, Jessica Swanson.
Elsewhere
- Breathe Through — YouTube (BANDALOOP), 2020-08
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