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July 24th, 2008
VaBang! Dance Company is excited to announce its West Coast premieres in SF and LA this August:
When/Where: 8PM August 23 + 24 at 975 Howard Space in San Francisco
When/Where: 8PM August 30 + 31 at the Diavolo at the Brewery in Los Angeles
Tickets ($15) for SF available here: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/39223
Tickets ($18 in advance; $22 at the […]
- West Coast premieres in SF and LA this August
VaBang! is pleased to announce that we have formed the SF wing of our bi-coastal dance company. We now have four dancers in NYC and four dancers in SF. Our new SF dancers are:
Katie Aggen
Barbara Lankamp
Emmaly Wiederholt
- June 29th, 2008
VaBang! has begun its collaboration with post-beat jazz poet Steve Dalachinsky. Steve performed in VaBang!’s world premiere in NYC March 29 and 30 for two of the three shows. Check out Steve’s first poem about VaBang! here:
VaBang!
dance dappled damsels
radiate outward from the circle’s center
stepped within
dare devil darlin’s illuminate the dark
dance rapidly lightly […]
- April 14th, 2008
VaBang! is performing its first outreach performance at the Mario Umana Middle School Academy in East Boston, MA on Wednesday April 2. If you are interested in VaBang! performing in your school, please contact us.
- March 31st, 2008
June 7, 4-6PM, 975 Howard Space (975 Howard Street, San Francisco, CA)
OR
June 8, Noon - 2PM, ODC Audition Series (fee audition) (ODC Dance Commons, 351 Shotwell Street, San Francisco, CA)
VaBang! is looking for three dancers (female or male) for its SF company. Must have strong background in modern dance and classical forms, and be open […]
- March 31st, 2008
VaBang! is pleased to announce all three nights of its world premiere run in Tribeca sold out. Thank you to all our wonderful supporters.
- March 31st, 2008
VaBang! will hold its NYC premiere on March 28, 29, 30 in Tribeca. 8pm - 9pm.
There is one more ticket for Friday and Saturday is sold out. Come to our Sunday show.
Tickets available here: http://vabangpremiere.eventbrite.com
- January 29th, 2008
• VaBanG! was accepted on October 15 by CIF of the San Francisco Foundation’s Board for fiscal sponsorship
• VaBanG! completed their first two works after their inaugural NYC choreographic session from October 4 – October 29
• VaBanG! completed their video and photo shoot with pro bono professional videographer (Erich Eilenberger) and photographer (Danielle Foreman and […]
- November 3rd, 2007
VaBanG! is a uniquely bi-coastal dance company founded in 2007 by Jessie Feller and Julia Sabangan. The two directors formed a strong friendship at Vassar College, where they danced together for the first time with Vassar Repertory Dance Theater. Two years after graduating from college, Feller found herself again dancing back home in San Francisco, […]
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- November 1st, 2007
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VaBang! Dance Company
World Premiere
March 28-30, 2008
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Bio
VaBang! is a bi-coastal dance company.
VaBang! is one of the first companies that brings together both coasts’ cultures, music and talents. While many companies regularly tour both coasts, no other company is born out of both coasts.
VaBang! is directed by two women, an absolute rarity in a field whose current major directors/choreographers are males. Moreover, Feller and Sabangan come from very distinct and different backgrounds. They marry these backgrounds to create a truly diverse and dual Directorship. Sabangan is the daughter of Filippino immigrants, who now make their home in the Bronx. Feller’s father was raised by a Jewish family in Queens, while her mother was raised Irish Catholic in Keokuk, Iowa. By creating and dancing in partnership, Feller and Sabangan bring these seemingly disparate worlds together, thereby embodying their own mission statement.
VaBang!’s founders approach their work from an intellectual starting point. They create works that are thought-provoking, rather than purely spectacular. Their pieces have strong messages that translate across cultures and to many different demographics. This directly speaks to their mission statement of soliciting a sense of global community and common experience.
In VaBang!’s current stage, the company is fresh and unencumbered by convention. It has no established convention, thereby making the possibilities of creation countless. VaBang! uses their youth as an asset; it allows the company to respond to the cultural and artistic trends that arise every day. VaBang! enters the dance community knowing that it is at a time when boundaries are being pushed. They intend to push even further.
VaBang! exists to fuse categories and transcend conventional ways of thinking.
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