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

The Fairmont Century Plaza is transformed into The Vertical Stage for this event. Relax under the stars while sipping cocktails. The Plaza’s famed crescent-shaped 19-story hotel makes the perfect backdrop for this event. The BANDALOOP dance troop utilizes climbing technology to create one of the most interesting performances you will ever see. Dancing through the sky, a BANDALOOP performance celebrates the architecture of the building they are performing on. “They say what we do is death-defying. I’d say it’s life-affirming,” said Amelia Rudolph, founder. 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.