{"id":798374,"date":"2019-08-08T13:52:00","date_gmt":"2019-08-08T19:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/news\/fifth-annual-breckenridge-international-festival-of-arts-returns-this-weekend-featuring-musical-performances-vertical-dancers-and-environmental-art\/"},"modified":"2019-08-08T13:52:00","modified_gmt":"2019-08-08T19:52:00","slug":"fifth-annual-breckenridge-international-festival-of-arts-returns-this-weekend-featuring-musical-performances-vertical-dancers-and-environmental-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/local-news\/fifth-annual-breckenridge-international-festival-of-arts-returns-this-weekend-featuring-musical-performances-vertical-dancers-and-environmental-art\/","title":{"rendered":"Fifth annual Breckenridge International Festival of Arts returns this weekend, featuring musical performances, vertical dancers and environmental art"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"swift-gallery p402_hide\" readability=\"6.8363309352518\">\n<ul id=\"imageGallery-369685-749\" class=\"gallery list-unstyled\">\n<li data-thumb=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/08\/BIFA-ESW-080919-1-150x150.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/08\/BIFA-ESW-080919-1.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"Courtesy Basil Tsimoyianis | Vertical dance company Bandaloop will perform multiple times at this year's Breckenridge International Festival of Arts. The 10-day event runs from Aug. 9 to 18.\" class=\"h-100\" readability=\"-1.5\">\n<div class=\"caption\" readability=\"8\">\n<p><strong>Vertical dance company Bandaloop will perform multiple times at this year&#8217;s Breckenridge International Festival of Arts. The 10-day event runs from Aug. 9 to 18.<\/strong><br \/>Courtesy Basil Tsimoyianis<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row no-gutters h-100\">\n<div class=\"col my-auto\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/08\/BIFA-ESW-080919-1.jpg\" alt=\"Vertical dance company Bandaloop will perform multiple times at this year's Breckenridge International Festival of Arts. The 10-day event runs from Aug. 9 to 18.\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li data-thumb=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/08\/BIFA-ESW-080919-1-1-150x150.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/08\/BIFA-ESW-080919-1-1.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"Courtesy Basil Tsimoyianis | One of the pioneers of vertical dance, the Oakland-based Bandaloop has been wowing audiences with its elegant and head-tilting choreography since 1991. Visit BreckCreate.org\/BIFA for a performance schedule.\" class=\"h-100\" readability=\"-0.5\">\n<div class=\"caption\" readability=\"10\">\n<p><strong>One of the pioneers of vertical dance, the Oakland-based Bandaloop has been wowing audiences with its elegant and head-tilting choreography since 1991. Visit BreckCreate.org\/BIFA for a performance schedule.<\/strong><br \/>Courtesy Basil Tsimoyianis<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row no-gutters h-100\">\n<div class=\"col my-auto\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/08\/BIFA-ESW-080919-1-1.jpg\" alt=\"One of the pioneers of vertical dance, the Oakland-based Bandaloop has been wowing audiences with its elegant and head-tilting choreography since 1991. Visit BreckCreate.org\/BIFA for a performance schedule.\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li data-thumb=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/08\/BIFA-ESW-080919-1-2-150x150.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/08\/BIFA-ESW-080919-1-2.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"Courtesy Jen Rosenstein | Live performances during this year's Breckenridge International Festival of Arts includes Denver-based DeVotchKa bringing its signature punk and gypsy folk sounds to the Riverwalk Center on Sunday, Aug. 11.\" class=\"h-100\" readability=\"-0.5\">\n<div class=\"caption\" readability=\"10\">\n<p><strong>Live performances during this year&#8217;s Breckenridge International Festival of Arts includes Denver-based DeVotchKa bringing its signature punk and gypsy folk sounds to the Riverwalk Center on Sunday, Aug. 11.<\/strong><br \/>Courtesy Jen Rosenstein<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row no-gutters h-100\">\n<div class=\"col my-auto\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/08\/BIFA-ESW-080919-1-2.jpg\" alt=\"Live performances during this year's Breckenridge International Festival of Arts includes Denver-based DeVotchKa bringing its signature punk and gypsy folk sounds to the Riverwalk Center on Sunday, Aug. 11.\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li data-thumb=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/08\/BIFA-ESW-080919-1-3-150x150.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/08\/BIFA-ESW-080919-1-3.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"Courtesy Tobin Poppenberg | Multimedia artist DJ Spooky will perform at the Riverwalk Center on Tuesday, Aug. 13, as part of the Breckenridge International Festival of Arts.\" class=\"h-100\" readability=\"-0.5\">\n<div class=\"caption\" readability=\"10\">\n<p><strong>Multimedia artist DJ Spooky will perform at the Riverwalk Center on Tuesday, Aug. 13, as part of the Breckenridge International Festival of Arts.<\/strong><br \/>Courtesy Tobin Poppenberg<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row no-gutters h-100\">\n<div class=\"col my-auto\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/08\/BIFA-ESW-080919-1-3.jpg\" alt=\"Multimedia artist DJ Spooky will perform at the Riverwalk Center on Tuesday, Aug. 13, as part of the Breckenridge International Festival of Arts.\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li data-thumb=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/08\/BIFA-ESW-080919-1-4-150x150.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/08\/BIFA-ESW-080919-1-4.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"Courtesy Joe Kusumoto | Elevating music to new heights, Tree-o features three musicians \u2014 cellist Russick Smith, violinist Karen Lauffer and mandolinist Kevin Larkin \u2014 in a series of free concerts held in the forest, high among the pine boughs and branches.\" class=\"h-100\" readability=\"0.5\">\n<div class=\"caption\" readability=\"12\">\n<p><strong>Elevating music to new heights, Tree-o features three musicians \u2014 cellist Russick Smith, violinist Karen Lauffer and mandolinist Kevin Larkin \u2014 in a series of free concerts held in the forest, high among the pine boughs and branches.<\/strong><br \/>Courtesy Joe Kusumoto<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row no-gutters h-100\">\n<div class=\"col my-auto\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/08\/BIFA-ESW-080919-1-4.jpg\" alt=\"Elevating music to new heights, Tree-o features three musicians \u2014 cellist Russick Smith, violinist Karen Lauffer and mandolinist Kevin Larkin \u2014 in a series of free concerts held in the forest, high among the pine boughs and branches.\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"caption-toggle\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/news\/fifth-annual-breckenridge-international-festival-of-arts-returns-this-weekend-featuring-musical-performances-vertical-dancers-and-environmental-art\/#\" class=\"show-captions\">Show Captions<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/news\/fifth-annual-breckenridge-international-festival-of-arts-returns-this-weekend-featuring-musical-performances-vertical-dancers-and-environmental-art\/#\" class=\"hide-captions\">Hide Captions<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText DropCap\">For the next 10 days Breckenridge, will host a variety of artistic experiences and installations as creative minds from around the world arrive to showcase their work during the fifth year of the Breckenridge International Festival of Arts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Traditionally, galleries are thought of as white cubes and theater spaces as black boxes, but BIFA brings the art world to an immersive level. Live performances include Denver-based DeVotchKa bringing its signature punk and gypsy folk sounds to the Riverwalk Center on Sunday, Aug. 11, and multimedia artist DJ Spooky blending a mix of hip-hop, electronic music and a string ensemble at the Riverwalk Center on Tuesday, Aug. 13.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Returning this year are curated Trail Mix events, pop-up concerts by Chirp! \u2014 an a cappella group featuring Denver-based Chimney Choir \u2014 and Tree-o, musicians perched on tree branches. They will occur on the Illinois Creek Trail, Trollstigen Trail, Iowa Hill Trail and Moonstone Trail throughout the festival.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Those looking for more ecological media can head to the Riverwalk Center lawn for a movie night Thursday, Aug. 15. Co-presented with the Breckenridge Film Festival, the free screening includes a series of shorts that focus on conservation and climate change.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Nearby on the Blue River, performance artists Tara Rynders, Courtney McGuire and Jess Webb will present their piece \u201cWading for Cupcakes\u201d with environmental engineer Tim Rynders. It informs the audience about the importance of watersheds and is held twice daily from Thursday, Aug. 15, to Sunday, Aug. 18.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">In between the activities, guests can wander around the town and trails to view art by The Canary Project, Giuseppe Licari and Gretchen Marie Schaefer. Rotterdam-based Sicilian artist Licari will display his climate change work, Golden Shelter, on the Moonstone Trail and has teamed up with Denver-based Schaefer to highlight the history of mining in Breckenridge with Blue River at the Old Masonic Hall. Meanwhile, The Canary Project, made up of Susannah Sayler and Edward Morris, is showcasing its sustainability-minded Green Patriot Posters collective on the Arts District lawn.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Breckenridge Creative Arts, the organizer of the festival, also will have a selection of family-friendly workshops happening on the Arts District campus. Tying into the festival\u2019s themes with clay planters, nature collages, leaf prints and more, the hands-on experiences are a chance for people to create their own works, like printing Green Patriot designs on canvas tote bags.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText Subhead\">Taking Flight<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">A unique portion of the festival will be the awe-inspiring dance movements of BANDALOOP. One of the pioneers of vertical dance, the Oakland-based company has been wowing audiences with its elegant and head-tilting choreography since 1991.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">With a name inspired by Tom Robbins\u2019 book \u201cJitterbug Perfume,\u201d Amelia Rudolph created BANDALOOP when exploring the idea of dance as a spiritual ritual during her studies at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, California. She also wanted to marry her passion of rock climbing with dance, seeing the sport as a sort of duet between the athlete and the stone.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Having appeared at festivals on the Front Range, BANDALOOP will perform for the first time in Breckenridge at the Riverwalk Center on Friday, Aug. 16, and Saturday, Aug. 17. Those eager for a sneak peek can catch them rehearsing at the Clock Tower at the Village at Breckenridge. The short practices are open to the public, inviting audience interaction and questions with the dancers and directors, such as Rudolph.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201cIt\u2019s about engaging the public in a common art form that they\u2019re not typically bumping into unless they are going to an opera house or ballet stage,\u201d said Thomas Cavanagh, BANDALOOP executive director. \u201cAs modern dancers, to bring this form of work and weave it together with the athleticism and the creativity that comes from the natural spirit is true to form to us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Projected behind them during the Riverwalk performances will be brief video snippets of them dancing in mountainous areas along the Tenmile Range. Taken earlier this week, the shoot was for a film project like similar Yosemite-set \u201cShift\u201d and \u201cCoyote Waltz\u201d movies and will be released at a later date. Originally composed music from Boulder-based collaborator Zachary Carrettin will be interwoven live with the two- and three-dimensional dancing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">In Cavanagh\u2019s mind, the films and live performances are two separate works that complement each other rather than compete. Since it would be too difficult to bring audiences to the remote environments, their viral videos instead help make BANDALOOP more accessible.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201cWe want people to see video work as a gateway to experience these human forms of dance in flight,\u201d said Cavanagh, who started working with BANDALOOP in 1998 as a rigger and technical director.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">That gateway goes both ways, as the dancers are touched and influenced by their outdoor performances.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201cWe\u2019re bringing in our team early to better understand and immerse ourselves in this community \u2014 to understand the ecosystem, to understand the mountains, to have the mountains inform the dance and the dancer,\u201d Cavanagh said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Though the same program will be performed each time, he said that \u2014 as is the nature with live art \u2014 repeat viewers will likely see something different because the work is so immersive.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201cLooking at the Riverwalk Center, we\u2019re going to use those orchestra shells that are on the sides as dance walls,\u201d Cavanagh said. \u201cThat\u2019s a very site-reactive thing that I\u2019m sure no one has done there. We\u2019re going to build a stage in the middle of the theater so we can have a more free-hanging, in-the-round or thrust environment, instead of a proscenium where you\u2019re just looking at the stage.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Running about 35 to 45 minutes long, the act will have eight dancers \u2014 the more visible members of the 16-person traveling team \u2014 who will be twirling and bounding about in their harnesses.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Performing more than 20 projects a year across the world as cultural ambassadors, the message of BANDALOOP is one of humanitarian unification. The group has performed at the 1998 United Nations conference on climate change in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and more recently in Malaysia at the World Summit on Arts and Culture in March. The company hopes to bridge divides regardless of whether they\u2019re performing in front of an audience in an urban city or a rural town while starting a dialogue on issues such as the environment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201cWe instantly bring people happiness,\u201d Cavanagh said. \u201cWhen you look up and see a dancer dancing, no matter who you are, who you voted for, you get a smile on your face. You can\u2019t help it. \u2026 It\u2019s rare that someone sees us dancing and is in a bad mood from it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/news\/fifth-annual-breckenridge-international-festival-of-arts-returns-this-weekend-featuring-musical-performances-vertical-dancers-and-environmental-art\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Summit Daily<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vertical dance company Bandaloop will perform multiple times at this year&#8217;s Breckenridge International Festival of Arts. The 10-day event runs from Aug. 9 to 18.Courtesy Basil Tsimoyianis One of the pioneers of vertical dance, the Oakland-based Bandaloop has been wowing audiences with its elegant and head-tilting choreography since 1991. 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