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2024 · Dance – site-specific / aerial

Somewhere to Land

Melecio Estrella and Damara Vita Ganley · BANDALOOP

A site-specific vertical dance theater work at Alameda's former Naval Air Station Hangar 25 / De-Pave Park. It tells a migration story through dance and a live song cycle by Ben Juodvalkis and Destani Wolf, and it was part of the development of BANDALOOP's FLOCK.

Premiere
2024-09-26
Venue
Hangar 25 / De-Pave Park Project
Where
Alameda, CA
Performances
Three shows, Sept 26-28, 2024. Continued as 'Somewhere to Oakland', a month-long public art project at Frank H. Ogawa/Oscar Grant Plaza, Oakland City Hall and the Rotunda Building, July 8-26, 2025, ending with FLOCK on July 26, 2025.
Credits
Direction: Melecio Estrella, Damara Vita Ganley. Composers/live music: Ben Juodvalkis and Destani Wolf (a multilingual song cycle on bird and human migration). Dancers: Rose Huey, Wailana Simcock, Jose Abad, Sarah Keeney, Damara Ganley, Jessica Swanson. Producer: Tara Pilbrow (West End Arts District). Technical director: Mike Rogers. Executive director: Thomas Cavanagh. Video: Maurice Ramirez, Pons Maar (Tommy). Company manager: Charlie Boyd Brown.

Press

“Live music was an integral part of the show, as musicians Destani Wolf and Ben Juodvalkis brought an emotional intensity to the performance.”

“Wolf and Juodvalkis have composed a living multi-lingual song cycle around themes of bird migration and human migration.”

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