Bandaloop Premieres Birdstrike in Santiago, Chile

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Destani is featured with Bandaloop and has been commissioned to compose the music with Ben Jouldavakis for a new piece called “Birdstrike.

A world premiere is the one that will be presented by BANDALOOP in the heights of Santiago, who will reflect on migration without borders and the care of ecosystems.

Commissioned by the Teatro a Mil International Festival, the American company BANDALOOP will premiere Bird Strike, a new long-lasting vertical international dance and music collaboration. The work is inspired by borderless migration, nesting and feeding of bird species in urban spaces.

Bird Strike invites audiences to question the city/wilderness binary, viewing man-made environments and sprawling urban development as both threats and opportunities for non-human species. The work explores the awareness, participation and care of ecosystems in a rapidly changing climate, and recognizes the urban space as a choreography of cohabitation between species.

Like all his previous works, BANDALOOP will create choreographies of human movement, both poetic and everyday, this time at the top of the streets of the city of Santiago, spaces previously only inhabited by birds. The singularity of this new work is that it will emerge in collaboration with the place itself and with an original score with Chilean musicians.

Bird Strike will review BANDALOOP’s three decades of history with architecture and the built environment, to now celebrate the creative urbanity of Santiago de Chile.

This show is sponsored by the US Embassy.

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