BANDALOOP

 

We invite you to join us in seeking awe in the everyday.

Loopers, BANDALOOP just landed a major New York Times feature, tracing our journey from mountain cliffs to Broadway, where we’ve choreographed REDWOOD, starring Idina Menzel and directed by Tina Landau. "This is simply a dream. Infinite gratitude for this transformative experience, to a fully women-led endeavor—for inviting me and BANDALOOP to serve this heartquaking story with vertical dance." —Melecio Estrella, BANDALOOP Artistic Director As we soar to new heights, we’re bringing the celebration home. Join us on April 5 at our Oakland studio for our 2nd annual gala—an evening of movement, food, and community. Let’s rise together. Read the NYT Feature The 2025 BANDALOOP Gala Tickets Now On Sale Join us on April 5th in Oakland! Bring your appetite, imagination, and generosity to our biggest fundraising event of the year! Space is limited. Buy Tickets Now

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Zaccho

 

Elevate Your Skills!  3 Workshops in March Photo by Alexa "LexMex" Treviño Join Black Futures Fellow, Conni Mckenzie! The Dreamerz Workshop Series is a space to reimagine resilience, find healing through movement, and dream boldly in the face of adversity. This three-part series invites you to explore your inner narratives, reconnect with your body, and reclaim dreaming as an act of resistance. * A FREE Community Engagement Event *   Learn More Zaccho Studio Proudly Hosts Juliana Neves In this 2.5 hours workshop, Juliana Neves offers sessions focused on dance, improvisation, and creating phrases together. She guides participants through various themes and tasks, using both free and structured improvisation to explore movement from an internal perspective. Open to dancers, actors, acrobats, aerialists, contortionists, musicians, and choreographers. No prior dance experience is required! Learn More Photo Courtesy of Juliana Neves Photo Courtesy of Veronica Blair Zaccho Community Spotlight The Art of Presence workshop series is presented by aerial veteran and Director of Zaccho's Youth Performing Arts Program, Veronica Blair! What You'll Learn: 🔹 Hypnosis techniques to enhance focus and presence 🔹 Performance exercises to strengthen emotional connection 🔹 Creative exploration with props and aerial apparatus 🔹 Techniques to engage your audience on a deep and meaningful level NOTE: This is not held at Zaccho Studio. Registration Rent Zaccho Studio Rehearsals | Performances | Workshops | Events  Studio Rental Info Zaccho Celebrates 45 Years of Artistic Excellence Award-winning Artmaking | Strengthening Community Bonds 35 years of Transformative Youth Arts Programming Photo by Austin Forbord | Artist, Veronica Blair Your tax-deductible donation provides critical access and resources to young people, artists, and our community. Thank You for Contributing Today!

Zaccho | 1777 Yosemite Ave, Studio 330 | San Francisco, CA 94124 US

Flyaway Productions

Thank you for your support of Flyaway Productions! Pull Ups and Knee Hangs For All In this Newsletter: WATCH If I Give You My Sorrows: Free Online VISIT The Only Door I Can Open APPLY to GIRLFLY 2025 APPLY for Internship TAKE CLASS with Jo Kreiter in BOE TAKE CLASS with Jo Kreiter in BADW FLYAWAY RECOMMENDS Just a Shadow WATCH If I Give You My Sorrows Free, Online, On Demand Flyaway is proud to share the entire performance of IF I GIVE YOU MY SORROWS, recently edited by RAPT Productions. Folks often ask us if we can share a whole show with them. So here you go. Let us know what you think! The video is running at YBCA in its current exhibit, The Only Door I  Can Open.  VISIT The Only Door I Can Open: Women Exposing Prison through Art YBCA Forum and Galleries 701 Mission St, San Francisco, CA 94103 An immersive multimedia exhibition co-curated from within prison by Tomiekia Johnson and Chantell-Jeannette Black, in collaboration with Empowerment Avenue. For the exhibition, Johnson and Black asked eight currently and formerly incarcerated artists to create an artwork that reflects on their relationship to their bed. Within the prison system, a person’s bed is one of the only spaces where they can be alone: for some, the bed is a place of safety and privacy, for others it is a space of isolation and angst.  The exhibition features an array of artworks in diverse media—including murals, paintings, and audio narratives—as well as an immersive installation, which mirrors a prison cell at Central California Women's Facility at Chowchilla (where the curators reside).  YBCA is also part of the Museums for All program, offering free Museum admission to anyone with a Medi-Cal or EBT card. Amazing arts and activism opportunity  GIRLFLY 2025 for girls & gender nonconforming youth in San Francisco Apply by May 15 Get Info + Apply to GIRLFLY Flyaway is seeking a  Paid Summer Intern for GIRLFY Real money for really important work Apply NOW Get More Info About Internship Free BOE Masterclass LOVING THE AIR March 21, 2025 Friday, 6:30PM-8:30PM ZACCHO Studio San Francisco, CA Come Dance with us in the Air! Flyaway’s Jo Kreiter is teaching in partnership with Bodies of Empowerment. This is a free, apparatus-based class open to all. Sign Up for BOE Class Free Bay Area Dance Week Masterclass LOVING THE AIR April 25, 2025 Friday, 5:30PM-7:30PM ZACCHO Studio San Francisco, CA Bay Area Dance Week is April 25- May 4, 2025. Flyaway and ZACCHO will team up once again to offer a free aerial master class on April 25, LOVING THE AIR, for all levels. Register for Bay Area Dance Week Class Flyaway Recommends Megan Lowe Dances Just a Shadow  April 4-6, 2025 Fri/Sat at 7:30pm + Sun at 3:30pm ODC Theater San Francisco, CA See Flyaway's Megan Lowe and Sonsherée Giles in Megan Lowe Dances' upcoming show! Just a Shadow is a performance journey that nourishes the soul, acknowledges resilience, honors memories of lost loved ones, and celebrates life. Back by popular demand and adapted to ODC Theater with a brand new live music set, 7 powerful artists gather together to share their unique strengths and creative modalities, including contemporary dance, site-specific dance, turf dance, contact improvisation, vertical dance, and live music. Get Info + Tickets to MLD Donate to Flyaway Share Tweet Forward Media Credits: 1) Brooke Anderson of Sonsherée Giles in If I Give You My Sorrows - 2023; 2) RAPT Productions of Quinn Dior, Sonsherée Giles, MaryStarr Hope, Jhia Jackson, Megan Lowe, and natalya shoaf in If I Give You My Sorrows - 2025; 3) The Only Door I Can Open - 2025; 4-5) Brechin Flournoy of GIRLFLY 2023; 6-7) Josh Coe of Jo Kreiter; 8) RJ Muna or Megan Lowe and Shira Yaziv for Just a Shadow- 2024 Copyright © 2016 Flyaway Productions, All rights reserved. For more information please visit: flyawayproductions.com