RENTER CLASSES AND OFFERINGS
BANDALOOP Studios welcomes renters of diverse movement disciplines each week. Many of these renters use the studios to run their own classes or offerings.
Each class has its own registration system, cancellation and refund policy, facilitators and style. Please read each class description for details and reach out to the contact provided for more information or questions.
If you are a renter at BANDALOOP Studios and want your class on this webpage, email studios@bandaloop.org.
Please consider donating to BANDALOOP to support ongoing sustainable rental rates for our community!
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BANDALOOP Health, Safety and Accessibility Guidelines 2023
BANDALOOP is a learning organization that acknowledges its own fallibility. As such, we approach the work of anti-oppression and building equity with curiosity and humility. BANDALOOP works to be a more equitable organization with the understanding that harmful historical bias and oppression pervades the performing arts, a reflection of the larger system of false hierarchies of human value.
With an understanding that access needs are diverse and every disability is different, BANDALOOP Studios strives to create a safe(r) space for the justice, dignity and joy of persons living with disabilities. We are committed to transparency around access at BANDALOOP Studios. Below are our present and evolving Accessibility Guidelines.
For questions, requests and further accommodations, please email studio@bandaloop.org.
Wheelchair Access
Both Studios East and West, along with BANDALOOP Studios’ bathrooms are ADA Accessible. Our mezzanine is not ADA accessible at this time. To support our efforts to create more ADA access at BANDALOOP Studios, please check out The Anchor Fund.
Toilet Facilities
BANDALOOP Studios’ toilet facilities are ADA Accessible and gender neutral.
Access Services
BANDALOOP Studios employs the services and counsel of Gravity Access Services for access needs of community members with diverse sensory modalities and physicalities including live and recorded Audio Description services, pre-show Haptic Access Tours, ASL referral services, Site Visits, and Media Assessments.
For related inquiries please contact studio@bandaloop.org
Fragrance-Free Studios
Recognizing that some workshop attendees, employees and visitors may have sensitivities or allergic reactions to personal body odor and various natural or artificial fragrant products, we kindly ask all persons at BANDALOOP Studios to be cognizant of their body odor and scented personal products that they use or bring onto the premises such as cologne, perfume, oils, lotions and powders.
BANDALOOP Studios is a Smoke-Free Space.
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As the COVID-19 pandemic evolves, we are monitoring the recommended healthcare guidelines from government and public health officials. As the State of California and Alameda County announce guidelines for our industry we will continue to offer in-person classes that adhere to those guidelines. Masking is supported and not required for indoor activities at BANDALOOP Studios by employees, contractors, dancers, teachers, students, facilitators, riggers, safety personnel, and use of space licensees.
Masking will be further advised for all indoor activities by employees, contractors, dancers, teachers, students, facilitators, riggers, safety personnel, and use of space licensees, whenever illness, viral or bacterial, in the public arena, is being watched and/or alerts activated by public health officials in Alameda County, California.
Vaccination is encouraged for all students when possible
Vaccination is required for all employees of BANDALOOP.
If any participant is experiencing Covid/flu-like symptoms, they are required to stay home from BANDALOOP activities
Partial refunds will be considered in the case of serious injury, illness, or personal emergency. Refunds are determined on a case by case basis. Email workshop@bandaloop.org to request a refund.
In an effort to increase agency for persons at BANDALOOP Studios to meet their access needs, masking could be required for programming at any time per the request of a teacher, student, space licensee or at the discretion of BANDALOOP management/staff in coordination with public health officials in Alameda County.
PPE is available upon request at BANDALOOP Studios.
How We Get Over [and Through!]: Movement for this Moment
meditation | divination | writing | storytelling
Stewarded by amara tabor-smith
Sunday, May 19, 3-5pm, FREE (donations accepted), Just show up!
PGB White Crane Silat (Kung Fu)
Mondays 7-9pm
PGB White Crane Silat (kung fu) is a traditional martial arts self-defense system with roots in Bogor, West Java, Indonesia, and a nearly 50-year legacy in the Bay Area. Every class is a unique mix of functional acrobatics and ground work, luscious short and long forms that draw inspiration from natural phenomena (animals, plants, and legendary Buddhist figures), and improvisational partner work (tui cu) that develops internal “feeling,” flow, and martial responses.
All fitness levels, body types, and experience with martial arts are welcome! Students will receive personal instruction and support tuned to their individual needs and growth path. See you on the floor!
REGISTRATION and COST:
Register online or just show up, drop-ins welcome! The first 3 classes are free, then it's $40 per class. We support a sliding scale starting at $0 for folks with lower income. No one will be turned away for lack of funds. For more information email pgbsanfrancisco@gmail.com.
For more info visit https://pgbcalifornia.com/
photo: Myray Reames
DANCE for EVERYBODY
Release-based Contemporary Dance Class with Christine Cali
Sundays 11:30-1pm (no class 3/17 or 4/28)
Inviting your Authenticity and Agency, this class will be fueled by practices that cultivate sensory, sensation, texture, breath, and connection to self and group. We will center adaptability through accessible movement explorations and choreography, intentional witnessing, moving in community, having choice and making decisions. Will be fun, functional, and transformative!
NEED TO KNOWS:
this is an ongoing, open, drop-in class
please wear layers for warmth and sliding
anti-oppressive agreements and pedagogy will be anchors and present in the facilitation of class
ADA accessible space and class (no ASL presently, working on this!)
Age: teen through adult - we have had teenagers through 80-year-old folks dancing with us, all are welcome here!
REGISTRATION and COST:
Sliding scale donation-based from $0-$30
RSVP by payment to Venmo: @calidances with a note (ex.): Sunday class 2/18 OR just show Up!
SHAWL-ANDERSON DANCE CENTER
SADC programs 25 hours of classes for youth and adults each week at BANDALOOP Studios.
YOUTH CLASSES at BANDALOOP Studios are open for registration and begin January 2024. See SADC’s Youth Page to sign up.
Tuesdays, 4:30-6pm - Beg Teen Hip Hop with Koozi
Thursdays, 4:30-6pm - Beg Majorettes with Taylor Bazile (ages 10-14)
Fridays, 4-5pm - Bay Area Hip Hop with Koozi (ages 8-11)
Saturdays, 9-9:45am, Creative Movement Modern (ages 3-5)
Saturdays 10-10:45am, “Fresh Feet” Beg Hip Hop with Javon (ages 5-7)
Saturdays 10:45-12pm, Beg Hip Hop with Javon (ages 8-11)
ONGOING ADULT CLASSES at BANDALOOP Studios.
See the full schedule and REGISTER NOW ONLINE.
Mondays, 10-11:30am Adv/Pro Contemporary Technique with Bianca Cabrera
Tuesdays, 6-7:15pm All Levels Bay Area Hip Hop with Koozi
Wednesdays, 9-10:15am Afro Dance Workout with Karma Smart
Thursdays, 10-11:30am Advanced Modern with Melecio Estrella
Thursdays, 6-7:30pm Beg/Int Modern with Shauna Vella
Fridays, 10-11:30am Advanced Modern with Mo Miner
Sundays, 10-11:30am Advanced Modern with Randee Paufve
SHOW & TELL
Show & Tell is a monthly performance salon / variety show that welcomes performers of all mediums to share their work at BANDALOOP Studios. This donation-based event provides a supportive environment to try out something new.
Visit https://linktr.ee/showandtelloakland to sign up to perform or join our mailing list and be notified about upcoming show dates.
West African Dance Class with Alhassane Da Camara
Wednesdays from 7-8:30pm
Experience the rhythms and joy of West African dance with Alhassane Camara's high-energy Guinea dance classes. These classes feature live drumming that will have you moving to the pulsing beats in no time.Students of all levels are welcome - no prior dance experience is necessary. Learn traditional dances from Guinea as Alhassane expertly guides you through the fast-paced movements.Take your workout to the next level and discover a passion for West African dance by joining a class with Duniya Dance's West African choreographer Alhassane Camara at BANDALOOP Studios.
REGISTRATION and COST:
Class is $15 pay at the door. No advance registration, just show up.
More info: https://www.duniyadance.com/westafricandanceclassoakland
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