2016 · Dance – site-specific / aerial
#SFPublicCanvas (San Francisco Public Canvas)
Archive folder: Public Canvas: San Francisco
Amelia Rudolph (artistic director, BANDALOOP), with Melecio Estrella
A multimedia vertical dance performance on the facade of a Tenderloin/Central Market building, combining dance, spoken word, live and recorded music, and projection-mapped imagery drawn from the neighborhood's history and residents. It was the first edition of BANDALOOP's #PublicCanvas community-engagement series.
- Premiere
- 2016-06-16
- Venue
- Exterior of UC Hastings College of the Law building, 333 Golden Gate Ave (Tenderloin/Central Market)
- Where
- San Francisco, CA
- Performances
- Four free evening shows June 16-19, 2016 (9 pm). Open rehearsals at BANDALOOP studio, Oakland, April 27, 2016. Material (Mele solo, quartet, women's trio, finale) was reworked for #ProvidencePublicCanvas (June 2017); a recorded version of the trio music with Tassiana Willis singing was made in summer 2016 for touring (e.g., Birmingham, AL, Sept 2016).
- Credits
- Music: Ben Juodvalkis and Gideon Freudmann (composers). Dancers (per stage-manager reports): Melecio Estrella, Virginia Broyles, Becca Dean, Sarah Kinney, Rachael Lincoln, Jessica McKee, Courtney Moreno, Roel Seeber, Jessica Swanson, Jordan Stout. Projection/media: Madrone Studios / Village Impacts (Jonathan Rowe, Pat Jagla and team). Lighting: Jim French, Krissy Kenny, Dylan Feldman. Poets/singers: Youth Speaks (Tassiana Willis, Ebony Donnley, Benjamin Turner, Candice Wicks and others) and Campo Santo (Dan Wolf). Sound: Mike Rogers. Stage manager: Alexander Zendzian. Costumes: Jaimelyn Duggan. Riggers: Derrick Lindsay, Braden Mayfield, Matt Leonard. Partner: Illuminate.
Press
“a piece that featured composers Ben Juodvalkis and Gideon Freudmann, singer/spoken word artist Tassiana Willis, and poets and singers from Youth Speaks and Campo Santo”
Elsewhere
- From a Great Height: Traversing a Public Canvas with BANDALOOP — National Endowment for the Arts (blog), 2018-07-20
- Projection Mapping and Vertical Dance on 6 Story Building — Vimeo (Madrone Studios), 2016-06
- SFPUBLIC CANVAS | Aerial Dance + Projection Mapped Performance — Madrone Studios (blog), 2017-06-11
- PUBLIC CANVAS — BANDALOOP, 2016
- 2016 (performance history) — BANDALOOP, 2016
- SF Public Canvas — partyonmarz (artist portfolio, GitHub Pages), 2016
More with BANDALOOP
- Beautiful Bird 2026 (BANDALOOP Pride youth camp) 2026
- Somewhere to Land 2024
- Bird Strike 2023
- Ceremony 2023
- Gesture Duet 2023
- Huey 2023