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"Bandaloop"

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16As people gathered below the building and looked up, a dancer springing from one of the windows. Tethered by mountaineering ropes, she completed a graceful and joyous arc before landing feet first on the side of the building, using it as a stage to catapult herself again into space. 17Spectator’s faces showed gaping wonder, frank delight, and 18some were even terrified. The dancer was soon joined by others, and together they created stunning currents of movement that gave a whole new identity to a public building. This is the work of the vertical dance company Bandaloop.


Since 1991, the 19company that is led by Amelia Rudolph has literally scaled heights around the world with its 20weird mix of choreography and rock climbing. In addition to dancing with buildings, Bandaloop has presented its work on historic sites such as the stone parapet of a 16th-century fort in southern India and in natural environments, including cliff faces in China and Yosemite National Park.


21The dancers are suspended over the side of a structure. This unusual relationship to gravity allows them to fly, leap, float, and jump with extraordinary amplitude to spectacular effect. Rudolph described her company’s impact as both amplifier and flypaper "because we amplify...what is possible. We draw people to the space and to an idea and to dance."


[A] However, vertical dance in grand spaces places dancers and audience members at a great physical distance from one another. [B] Rudolph suggested that even from far away, the movements and relationships among the dancers translate to spectators below. [C] "A lot of the choreography is very interaction-based, and intimate. You can feel the relationship." She adds, "I don’t think it's as different as people think it is to dance on a building or to dance in [an auditorium]. But it is important that whatever we do from the building expresses our humanity." 22If public art means easy access or proximity to the art, then does dance taking place on a seven story building diminish its power to connect on a human level?


In addition to using natural, historic, or architectural sites as choreographic inspiration and performance venues, 23 Bandaloop is exploring the social and cultural landscapes of communities in an initiative called #PublicCanvas. This socially grounded melding of dance, music, spoken word, and visual art 24 tell the story of a community 25 threw the people who live and work there. The company members do a deep dive into each place, going to schools, churches, community centers, arts organizations, and other venues. At each stop, they ask the question: "What change do you want to see?" The stories 26 gleaned from these conversations inspire a work by Bandaloop.27


[D] The first #PublicCanvas event took place in San Francisco’s Tenderloin District in 2016 using the exterior of the University of California, Hastings College of Law building as the stage. [E] The Hastings College of Law is significant in that it is one of the first law schools founded in the Western United States. [F] Conversations with the community inspired both the choreography and video projections. [G] The latter involved a canvas of shifting images reflecting the history of the neighborhood and the people who live and work there. Dancers performed on this kaleidoscopic backdrop, while singer/spoken word artist Benjamin Turner walked down the wall reciting his work as musicians sang from the ground.28


The #PublicCanvas events do what all Bandaloop performances 29do, which is: offer a new vision for the public in a shared space. "It’s this lovely, elegant, simple fact of redefining what a stage is, what a building is, what performance is, what dance can be," Rudolph said.






Number 28

Which sentence contains irrelevant information and should be removed from the paragraph?

A.

sentence D

B.

sentence E

C.

sentence F

D.

sentence G

User Jazel
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Answer:

I think the answer is,

B. sentence E

Step-by-step explanation:

I'm saying this as the answer because sentence "E" was irrelevant. They were talking about where the choreography was taking place. That's understandable and all. Yet with "E" it states, "The Hastings College of Law is significant in that it is one of the first law schools founded in the Western United States." There was no need for that sentence, that was just extra that didn't need to be added.

I hope this helps!!!

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