Rose Huey, BANDALOOP’s Director of Education and Dancer, on the company’s growth in Oakland, California.
A CAPITAL CAMPAIGN TO RAISE $1-MILLION AND BUILD A GLOBAL HUB FOR PERSPECTIVE SHIFTING ART
BANDALOOP performs around the world but we work, train, and create from our home studios in West Oakland. We have the chance now to improve and grow our space and provide more support and opportunity for our artist community.
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BANDALOOP is a dance innovator who continues to influence the genre through performances around the globe. With the only space for vertical dance in the Oakland Bay Area, our expanded headquarters create a world of opportunity for local and international artists.
The Anchor Fund creates BANDALOOP Studios, 8,000 sq ft of fully-rigged vertical dance space in West Oakland. The Studios double our floor space, triple our wall space, and add amenities to support the breadth of our community.
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BANDALOOP is a generator for artistic talent that combines dance, climbing, and storytelling. In 30+ years we have cultivated 150+ of dance artists and a field of art professionals and production technicians. Since our founding in 1991, there are now over 300 organizations fostering vertical performance around the world.
The Anchor Fund will provide resources to programs like BANDALOOP’s UPDRAFT Artist Residency and Training Group to nurture the field of vertical performance.
See profiles of our dance visionaries:
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BANDALOOP celebrates a culture of safety and collaboration while offering the thrill of flight. Our education programs challenge and exhilarate young and adult minds to believe in their unlimited potential.
The Anchor Fund will enhance all-ages education in the air, on the ground, and in partnership with schools and international teaching artists to serve 500+ students annually.
“I love that BANDALOOP allows and welcomes people who were never trained as dancers. Sometimes these things can be intimidating, but it felt very accessible.”
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BANDALOOP continues our commitment to Inclusion, Diversity, Equity and Accountability (IDEA) through our professional development, hiring, and engagement practices. We acknowledge and lead the dance industry’s need to accelerate and uplift BIPOC and LGBTQIA+ voices.
The BANDALOOP Anchor Fund will provide our community with job opportunities, affordable community space, and free events to gather and experience awe.
"Their movements in the sky, on walls, in unusual spaces prompt the ways a community gazes - upward and sees beauty among itself as a shared experience that enliven our civic life."
— Roberto Bedoya, Cultural Affairs Manager, City of Oakland
Our vision is to create a space of belonging in the Oakland Bay Area. Join the Anchor Fund and help secure the future of BANDALOOP and create an international center for arts and culture innovation.
“What inspires me is that BANDALOOP is an arts and cultural anchor that is playing a role in sustaining artists and our place in West Oakland amidst so much change and displacement for our Oakland community.”
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TO MAKE A PLEDGE OR INQUIRE
Contact Development Director Jeanne Pfeffer
“This fund will be future facing as a moment to create and nurture relationships, take action, engender belonging, and lift up the role artists have to foster a LOVE of Oakland, this complicated city we call home.”
THE BANDALOOP STUDIOS NAMING OPPORTUNITIES
Create your legacy with BANDALOOP Studios
STUDIO WEST - $100,000
Where we envision together a future, our fourth decade, with a new generation of dancers alongside vertical masters and double the incubating capacity.
STUDIO EAST - $50,000
Where we started in 2008 at the 18th and Peralta, where we have incubated the mastery and where inspiration leaps from on a dancewall built by us for us.
THE HUB - $25,000
Where we build costumes, book flights, round table opportunities, and earn from challenges, where dreams intersect with planning on the Mezzanine overlooking Studio East.
THE RIGGERS LOFT - $10,000
Where we keep the ropes that keep us safe, where the riggers count the carabiners before we head up the mountain, where the river of preparedness flows forth from.
THE MULTI-PURPOSE ROOM - $10,000
Where the dancers warm up, stretch, and prepare for the work, where the teachers expand curriculum beyond the dance and into the artistry.
DANCE FLOOR SQUARE - $5,000
Where dancers unlock potential and creativity lifts off - claim a square of the new 40 x 45 ft dance floor in our Studio West.
Gifts of $1,000 or more will be acknowledged on a permanent Anchor Fund Wall.
Contact Development Director, Jeanne Pfeffer (jeanne@bandaloop.org), for more information.
ABOUT BANDALOOP
BANDALOOP is an international dance company based in West Oakland, California, specializing in large-scale, publicly accessible vertical performances. Through our perspective-bending storytelling and movement-based art, BANDALOOP honors nature, community, and the human spirit.
Since the founding of the company in Oakland in 1991, BANDALOOP has choreographed and produced over 300 performances in over 30 countries.
BANDALOOP’s social mission is to stretch everyone’s social, physical and moral potential to foster wellness of people and planet.
THANK YOU TO OUR ANCHOR FUND SUPPORTERS
Ernst Household
Brian Ripley
Dailey Household
Engdahl Household
Weinreb Family Foundation
Daniel Scoville
Cavanagh Household
Tom Lent & Martha Crusius
Lo Household
Patricia West
Dorman Household
Maxwell Household
Rubicon Point Partners
Uptown Downtown Community Benefit District
Sozo Media
Heritage Bank
Arcsine
Haworth
Clear Horizons LLC