Artistic Director:
Amelia Rudolph

Dancers:
Heather Baer, Melecio Estrella, Damara Ganley, Rachael Lincoln, Anje Marshall, Amelia Rudolph, Mark Stuver, Roel Seeber

Touring Company is: Artistic Director, eight performers and two to four technical staff.

Director of Operations:
Thomas Cavanagh

Rigging:
Steve Schneider, Hans Florine
Richard Kittle

Company Manager : Amanda Moran
Composer/musician in residence: Zachary Carrettin
Lighting Designer: Jack Carpenter,
Photography: Atossa Soltani
Set Designer: Todd Laby
Rigger/Camera Operator: Jim Surette
Multimedia Producer/Webmaster: Greg Bernstein

Alumni:
Kimm E. Ward, Suzanne Gallo, Raymond Granlund, Peter Mayfield, Alex Zendzian

Heather Baer, obtained her Bachelor of Arts in dance from Mills College in Oakland. She has danced with the Motivity Company, Dance Brigade, Zaruwcha & Company and Zaccho Dance Theatre. She has been with Project Bandaloop since their premiere show in 1991. Heather is the director of Fitness in Transit, a mobile gymnastics, dance and climbing program. With her husband Steve Schneider, she has ascended El Capitan nine times, climbed the limestone of Germany, and Australia, granite towers in Chile, and most recently, they completed a first ascent in Pakistan. She is a certified Pilates instructor.

Zachary Isaac Carrettin completed his Bachelor and Master of Music degrees at Rice University, Shepherd School of Music, Houston, Texas, where he studied violin with Kenneth Goldsmith and Sergiu Luca. While a graduate student, Zachary was concertmaster of Houston's OrchestraX, and performed as soloist with the ensemble on several occasions, including the Texas premiere performances of Corigliano's Chaccone for violin and orchestra and Piazzolla 's Revolucionario. He participated in the Houston Grand Opera's first in-house baroque period instrument production, Monteverdi's Orfeo . In 1999, Zachary was a first violinist in the Bergen Philharmonic, Norway. Zachary plays baroque and classical period instrument productions with the San Luis Obispo Mozart Festival, the San Francisco Bach Choir, Portland Baroque Orchestra, the Trinity Consort, American Bach Soloists, and Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra. Zachary is a founding member of Portland's Magnolia, an ensemble whose repertory ranges from compositions of the 17th century to works composed in the new millennium. He is also a founding member of the avante-tango band, Los Peregrinos. Zachary has been performing with and writing music for Project Bandaloop since 1998.

To hear Zachary's music visit: themaestroconnection.com.

Mr. Carpenter has designed lighting and scenery for Dance, Music, Theater, Museum Exhibits and Opera. His work can be seen with such varied companies as Bishop Museum, SF Ballet, SF Symphony, Detroit Symphony, Chanticleer, Women’s Philharmonic, Kronos Quartet, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Center Rep, Oakland Ballet, Joe Goode Performance Group, Nancy Karp +Dancers, ODC/SF, Zaccho Dance Theatre, Lili Cai Chinese Dance, Project Bandaloop, Eureka Theatre, as well as nine years as resident designer for Diablo Ballet.

His work has been seen at the Kennedy Center, Lincoln Center, NY Metropolitan Museum, Davies Symphony Hall, Macau, Honolulu, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Detroit Opera House, Walker Arts Center and in most major metropolitan areas of this country. Notable productions for Mr.Carpenter include Crossing for Project Bandaloop, Curlew River for Chanticleer, the world premiere of Angels In America, for the Eureka Theater Company, Walk Before Talk, and Lost Their Footing for Diablo Ballet, Picture: Powderhorn/Redhook and Ghost Architecture and Arrival and Departure for Zaccho Dance Theatre, Beauty Queen of Leenane for Berkeley Repertory Theater, Thirsting for Oakland Ballet with a live musical performance by Zap Mama, Humansville, Transparent Body, and Grace for Joe Goode Performance Group, The Water Project for ODC, Concerto Romantique for San Francisco Ballet, and MLADA for SF Symphony. Mr. Carpenter has received four Bay Area Critics Circle Awards, and four Isadora Duncan Awards for lighting design.

Thomas is a project manager, a theatrical rigger, a climber and mountain enthusiast. He has supervised the installation of national tours and projects through his work with Stage Craft; a production company, and has been head rigger and concert manager for the North Shore Music Theater in Beverly, MA, as well as a safety manager and rigger for the High Altitude Bungee at Squaw Valley. He has studied outdoor leadership through NOLS and wilderness medicine / EMT training with SOLO in North Conway, NH. He is currently certified as a wilderness first responder with WMI , as well as a certified pyro-technician and special effects supervisor. Thomas is also operations manager for Amazon Watch, a non-profit dedicated to protecting the environment and indigenous people of the Amazon Basin.

Melecio Estrella was born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area. Much of his youth was spent in the rigors of competitive gymnastics. He found his way into the worlds of dance and performance through his love of contact improvisation. Melecio has performed in the bay area with Scott Wells, Liz Roman, Rachael Lincoln, Faye Driscoll and Taproot. He is currently a member of the Joe Goode Performance Group. Melecio has gratefully adventured with Project Bandaloop for the last four years.

Rachael Lincoln is a dancer and choreographer. She studied dance and fiction writing at the University of Arizona, moved to San Francisco in 1996, and just recently began the MFA program at UCLA. She has performed with The Joe Goode Performance Group, Jo Kreiter Flyaway Productions, Kathleen Hermesdorf, and Kim Epifano in the United States and with wee dance company, Sommer Ulrickson, and Jess Curtis in Berlin. For the last several years she has been focusing on creating and performing her own work alone and with collaborators Leslie Seiters, Mark Stuver, and Cari Ann Shim Sham*. Most recently, as co-director of lean to productions, Rachael has been touring her duet "an attic an exit" with Seiters throughout California and to Poland and Portugal. Her interest in aerial and athletic dance comes from years of experience on a diving team and from a lifetime of sports. She has had the pleasure of being a member of Project Bandaloop since 1999.

Visit Racheal's website @ www.rachaellincoln.com

Amanda has been managing artists and performing groups since 1989. She worked at the Climate Theater and Life on the Water in San Francisco, for International Production Associates in New York, and was personal manager for writer/performer Eric Bogosian. She recently produced the cd-rom "Critical Mass: The Desktop Showcase", a marketing tool for artists, with Circuit Network in San Francisco.

Atossa Soltani
Photographer

Atossa has been a media coordinator/liaison and visual artist with Project Bandaloop since 1998 on both domestic and international performances. She has documented the work of the company in Buenos Aires, Italy, New York, Los Angeles, Boston, Salt Lake City and Yosemite, among other locations. Her eye for composition has yielded Project Bandaloop a plethora of press photos and video footage, many of which can be found this website.

 

From Rifle,Colorado, Mark Stuver began his career in performance at Middlebury College (B.A. Theater-Dance, 1998). In San Francisco, Mark has performed with Kathleen Hermesdorf, Leslie Seiters, Sara Shelton Mann, Lizz Roman and Jess Curtis/Gravity in San Francisco and Berlin. In New York he has performed with Lisa Race and Ezra Caldwell/Vermont House Productions. Mark appears in the short film 'Mark as Himself' by Caldwell (at the vthouse.net film archive), 'This Bird Has Flown' by Carrie Noel (preview at carrienoel.com), 'Just Under a Million' directed by Hester Schell, and a forthcoming short directed by Daren Rabinovitch.With collaborator Rachael Lincoln, Mark has performed original dance-theater in San Francisco, at the Dublin Fringe Festival, at Dancers' Workshop in Jackson, Wyoming and at Middlebury College. He also appeared in a new work by Lincoln this past winter at UCLA. Mark joined Project Bandaloop in 2000; since then performances have taken him from The David Letterman Show, NYC to Soweto, South Africa, Singapore, Macau, Oman, Northern Italy, Norway, Poland, Turkey, Brazil, San Francisco's Mission District, The Kennedy Center and cliffs, buildings and theaters across the US. For more, visit www.markstuver.net.

Jim Surette
Rigger/Cameraman

Jim Surette’s 14-year career as an adventure cameraman includes filming feature-length programs for the major television networks: ESPN, NBC, CBS, MTV, FOX, Discovery Channel, UPN, OLN and USA Network. He has filmed documentaries for National Geographic Explorer, IMAX, Rush HD, The North Face, Peter Jennings Productions and others.

From Mount Everest to Borneo, Jim has operated cameras in the world’s most extreme environments, keeping up with world-class athletes and adventurers to get his shot. Jim’s experience as an expert climber and skier allow him an inside perspective on the places and personalities he captures on film. Jim’s mountain skills enable him to single-handedly rig his own shots without the need of a large crew. He has worked as a camera operator for Discovery Channel’s hit show, The Deadliest Catch; National Geographic Explorer’s Surviving Everest; and NBC’s Great Trango: A Mile High in Pakistan.

Visit his website: granitefilms.com

Roel Seeber started dancing in New York City, at age 10, break dancing with the 560 Breakers. Years later after pursuing a career as a down hill skier, he started formal dance training at the University of Utah. From there he transferred to the conservatory of dance at Purchase College, State University of New york, where he graduated cum Laude with a BFA in dance. In 2001, he joined the Limon Dance Company where he danced until joining Project Bandaloop in March of 2008. Additionally Roel has studied martial arts, flying trapeze, loves to rock climb, and make art, and has taught Limon based dance around the US and in Europe

Alumni:

Kimm has had a rich and varied career as a multi-dimensional dancer and has performed with Project Bandaloop since 1992. Kimm received her BA in modern dance from UCLA. While in Los Angeles she performed with the Sarah Elgart Dance Company as well as working in a variety of film and video productions. In 1987 she was an invited dancer at Sundance Institute's Choreographers / Videographers Symposium. Over the years she has had the good fortune of working with Zaccho Dance Theatre, Fellow Travelers Performance Group, Dance Brigade, Terry Sendgraff, Anna Halprin, Contraband and Lauren Elder.

Suzanne Gallo-Suzanne is a local dancer, aerialist and choreographer. She grew up in the Bay Area and went on to dance with the Atlanta Ballet, Ballet West, SF Opera, Lines, Della Davidson, and ODC. She has had the pleasure of working with Ben Carter, Sonja Delwaide, Joanna Haigood/Zaccho and has been a member of Project Bandaloop since its inception in 1991. Suzanne has presented her work at The Aspen International Design Conference, Brady Street Dance Center, Theater Artaud, Laney College, Dance Mission Theater, Cowell Theater, Yerba Buena Forum, and the Flying Women's Festival. In April 2001 Suzanne presented a full evening of Dance, Vertical Dance, Music and Multimedia Imagery, entitled Light Sound and Space.

Raymond Granlund completed his bachelor and master of music degrees at Rice University's Shepherd School of Music. As a baritone he has sung leading operatic roles at the Tanglewood Music Center, with Houston's Orchestra X, and was a member of the apprentice artist program for singers at the Santa Fe Opera. Ray composed the score to the Project Bandaloop piece TriTangoMetro. He is composer in residence with Portland, Oregon's Magnolia and is pianist and composer in the modern tango group "Los Peregrinos". To hear Ray's work visit: RepokerMusic.com

Peter is a climber, entrepreneur, dancer and rigger. As a career climber in Yosemite he pioneered routes on El Capitan and Half dome in the '80's, as well as climbs in Peru and Alaska. He competed on a national level in climbing and was an alternate on the US climbing team for two years. He began dancing 11 years ago when he met Project Bandaloop at CityRock, an indoor climbing gym that he founded in 1990. CityRock set a new standard for indoor climbing gyms in America. He has rigged for the company since 1992 on cliff faces and buildings and is a certified Wilderness First Responder. He currently runs Yosemite Guides, a natural history guiding service that facilitates mountain experiences for outdoor enthusiasts. He has performed with Project Bandaloop since 1991.