CONVERSATION IN WITH ANDRÉA SPEARMAN, DANCERS’ GROUP ARTIST RESOURCE MANAGER
Celebrating our 50th anniversary
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In Conversation, a series of interviews exploring exchanges about dance and different folks’ relationship to dance.
WITH ANDRÉA SPEARMAN
AS WE EXAMINE HOME and place and what community means, these questions presented themselves. “How is the dance com- munity a home?”, “How does one bring their personal history to this larger ecosystem?”, “How do we sustain the community con- nections so that home never disappears?” In this edition of In Conversation I was able to speak with Mele- cio Estrella, the dynamic Artistic Director of BANDALOOP and Co-Director of Fog Beast, about his journey to making a home for dance making in San Francisco. Melecio Estrella is a director, choreographer, educator and facilitator based in unceded Chechenyo Ohlone territory. He is artistic director of BANDALOOP, co-director of Fog Beast and longtime member of the Joe Goode Performance Group. He has had three premiers of full length work in 2021: LOOM:FIELD in Atlanta, GA, Transpire in Boise, ID, and Time of Change in San Francisco. Upcoming 2022 engagements include BANDALOOP’s 30th Anniversary Home Season in Oakland, new work at The Vir- ginia Arts Festival in Norfolk VA, LAPublicCanvas at the Ford The- ater in Los Angeles, and These Lines are Living at the Animate Dance Festival in Alameda. IG: @bandalooping @fogbeast “ MELECIO ESTRELLA “ ‘What would we call this?’ Both of us grew up in the Bay, both of us have an affinity for fog. Fog be- ing this thing that can obscure and reveal, and can condense and then disappear. Then the beast being us, our bodies. We’re gentle beasts.” — MELECIO ESTRELLA
10 QUESTIONS IN 10 MINUTES
WITH INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATORS Cross Move Lab CHINA Kolben Dance Company ISRAEL Tanusree Shankar Dance Company INDIA
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