The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts shut down Pennsylvania Avenue on Friday night for one of the evening performances of its Look Up! Night Street Festival, the after-dark portion of the Look Both Ways Street Arts Across America festival that offers free performances around the city. Nearly 4,000 people turned their attention upwards, as Project Bandaloop took to the side of the Old Post Office Pavilion with an nearly hour-long aerialist dance performance.
“It’s an opportunity to really stretch our audience’s understanding of what performing arts can be,” said Garth Ross, vice president of community engagement for the performing arts center. “Project Bandaloop fused the extreme discipline of climbing with contemporary dance and in doing so changes our perspective about what dance is and how it can bring us together in different ways.”
The Kennedy Center worked with Atmosphere Lighting to spotlight the performers from a hidden platform between two turrets of the building hidden from the view of the audience.
