304 pieces · 2006–2026
Music
A work in progress archive of all commissions.
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2026
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Beautiful Bird 2026 (BANDALOOP Pride youth camp)
Melecio Estrella, with theater educator Evan Johnson · BANDALOOP
A week-long vertical musical theater camp for LGBTQIA+ and allied youth ages 8-17 at BANDALOOP Studios, ending in an original production created by the campers. Ben Juodvalkis served as musical director.
Education / school residency 1 press item
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Before We Were Trees
Melecio Estrella and Damara Vita Ganley
A diptych of dance and song performed in and around a rigged cedar tree at Montalvo Arts Center's 2026 Marcus Festival, living in response to the site's art, architecture, landscape and people.
Dance – stage work Audio Photos 3 press items
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Berkeley Dance Project 2026
Directed by Lisa Wymore; guest choreographers Randee Paufve ('Sisters', restaging) and Sarah Crowell (devised community project with Lisa Wymore and the Next River Institute), plus student works · UC Berkeley – Theater, Dance & Performance Studies
UC Berkeley's 2026 dance concert, with a restaging of Randee Paufve's 'Sisters', a devised community-engaged work by Sarah Crowell and Lisa Wymore, and student pieces from the Fall Choreography Showcase. Ben Juodvalkis…
Dance – stage work 2 press items
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Bunk Beds
Jessica Swanson and Olivia Sander
A nine-minute duet by Jessica Swanson and Olivia Sander, set to a new score by Ben Juodvalkis built around his own 2021 song 'I Spend Every Night Alone', written for an unrealized Joe Goode Haight-Ashbury project and re…
Dance – stage work Video Audio Photos 4 press items
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Camp St. Michael
Melecio Estrella
Sketch / jam / demo
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Dance for PD film
Damara Ganley and Carolyn Hutchinson (teachers, ODC Parkinson's dance class); filmed and edited by Natalia Roberts (ODC) · Dance for PD (TBC)
A short video (2 minutes maximum) of ODC's Parkinson's Dance Community class, made for the international 'Together We Dance' project linked to the Red Thread theme of the 2026 World Parkinson Congress. Participants wore…
Film / video score 1 press item
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Emily Hansel kids piece
Emily Hansel
Education / school residency
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GODLESS (Godless: a new cabaret show by Rotimi Agbabiaka)
Rotimi Agbabiaka (writer/creator/performer)
A cabaret show by Rotimi Agbabiaka that mixes Broadway, pop, and jazz standards with Greek, African, and contemporary mythology, set among gossiping gods, muses, and mortals and fronted by a band called Dion and the Nym…
Dance – stage work Video 6 press items
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How to Make a Passive Dance
SanSan Kwan
An immersive quintet exploring passivity and receptivity — the audience roams the space without shoes among 600 teacups and video projections while dancers, wearing men's shirts that belonged to Kwan's late husband, per…
Dance – stage work Audio Photos 5 press items
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Just Feel
Damara Vita Ganley, Aja Randall and Patricia West (DAP) · DAP (TBD)
A short dance piece, 'Just Feel', by the trio Damara Vita Ganley, Aja Randall and Patricia West, who perform as DAP. Ben edited and adjusted the music tracks, including removing drum hits and adding a faint, foghorn-lik…
Dance – stage work 2 press items
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Killer Queen: The Story of Paco the Pink Pounder
Peter Griggs (writer/performer); director Susan Finque; producer Brad Cerenzia (Outrage On Stage)
A solo theater piece, structured in 'rounds' like a boxing match, that follows Paco, 'the Pink Pounder', a fictional gay boxer, from childhood conflicts with family, school and church through coming out and his later st…
Theater / musical / spoken word 2 press items
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Lay It Down (working title from the Drive folder)
Damara Vita Ganley and Mo Katzman
A roughly 10-minute duet by Damara Vita Ganley and Mo Katzman with music by Ben Juodvalkis, presented at Joe Goode Performance Group's sold-out GUSH Dance Festival in April 2026. The festival brought together long-time…
Dance – stage work 3 press items
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Meandering Urbanite
Megan Lowe and Roel Seeber (Megan Lowe Dances)
Meandering Urbanite is a vertical dance duet by Megan Lowe and Roel Seeber, made in an art-making intensive for the 2026 SF Aerial Arts Festival. Ben co-devised the sound during rehearsal week and performed the music li…
Dance – stage work Audio Photos 4 press items
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Miss You Now; slideshow music (GUSH 2026)
Joe Goode · Joe Goode Performance Group
New song recordings and arrangements Ben produced for Joe Goode's appearance at the GUSH Dance Festival 2026, which marked Joe Goode Performance Group's 40th anniversary with a reimagining of Doris in a Dust Bowl and wo…
Song / recording / production 2 press items
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On Earth As It Is (work in progress; probable match for the 'Studio Showing 2026' folder)
Melecio Estrella
A work in progress by Melecio Estrella combining song, dance, video and installation, shown in a half-hour performance during the San Francisco Art Week 2026 open-studios pop-up at Headlands Center for the Arts. Ben Juo…
Dance – stage work 1 press item
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River Crossing
BANDALOOP (Melecio Estrella, artistic director)
BANDALOOP performs vertical dance on the facade of 1128 Market Street at the Market Street Arts & Theater Festival, set to 'River Crossing', a song Ben Juodvalkis and Destani Wolf wrote for FLOCK.
Dance – site-specific / aerial 1 press item
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The Fifth Point
Keelan Whitmore
A world-premiere ballet for five dancers by Keelan Whitmore, inspired by the Romantic-era 'Pas de Quatre' and expanding its four ballerinas to five to explore visibility, individuality, belonging and collective identity…
Dance – stage work Photos 7 press items
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Wailana 2026
Wailana Simcock (JGPG company member)
Music by Ben Juodvalkis ('Massage Music' and 'Moans') for a 2026 project with Joe Goode Performance Group artist Wailana Simcock.
Dance – stage work 2 press items
2025
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Are You Okay?
Joe Goode and Melecio Estrella (co-directors) · Joe Goode Performance Group
An immersive, site-specific dance-theater work about how people cope with personal and collective instability, staged in Rincon Center's atrium and interior spaces. Interviews with community members about getting throug…
Dance – stage work 7 press items
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ArtPärdē Slumber Party
Bethany Mitchell and Meghna Purkayastha (producers, ArtPärdē Inc.)
ArtPärdē is a San Francisco art party that presents about ten short acts of dance, music, poetry, improv comedy and a fashion show in one evening, followed by a DJ set. At the May 17, 2025 pajama-themed 'Slumber Party'…
Dance – stage work Audio Photos 2 press items
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Celebrity Skin (cover; folder title)
Pangaea Colter
Song / recording / production
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Dimensions Dance Theater (BAMPFA performance)
Latanya d. Tigner (Dimensions Dance Theater)
A Dimensions Dance Theater performance at BAMPFA on November 22, 2025, part of BAMPFA's Performances 2025 series and inspired by the exhibition 'Routed West: Twentieth-Century African American Quilts in California.' Com…
Dance – stage work 3 press items
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Estuary
Melecio Estrella and Andrew Ward (Fog Beast)
A song, text and dance performance by Fog Beast for the San Francisco Estuary Partnership's 2025 State of the Estuary Conference in Oakland, drawing on the company's long focus on water, ecology and science-art connecti…
Dance – site-specific / aerial 3 press items
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FLOCK
Melecio Estrella and Damara Vita Ganley (co-directors) · BANDALOOP / FLOCK
The third part of BANDALOOP's LOOM trilogy, a vertical dance theater work inspired by bird and human migration, with live Spanish and English songs by Destani Wolf and Ben Juodvalkis. Performances move across a building…
Dance – site-specific / aerial 8 press items
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FLOCK (original songs and score by Ben Juodvalkis and Destani Wolf for BANDALOOP)
Ben Juodvalkis + partner, Melecio Estrella (BANDALOOP artistic director) · FLOCK
Ben Juodvalkis and singer-songwriter Destani Wolf write and perform the multilingual songs and score for BANDALOOP's vertical-dance production FLOCK, a poetic story of migration that interweaves bird and human migration…
Song / recording / production 7 press items
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Flowers and Food
Damara Ganley, Melecio Estrella
Song / recording / production
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Hope
Molly Rose-Williams
Song / recording / production
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JGPG Inspired Bodies workshop at Boys & Girls Clubs of San Francisco, Mission Club
Joe Goode, Damara Vita Ganley (JGPG Inspired Bodies), with Ben Juodvalkis · Joe Goode Performance Group
Education / school residency
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Like the First Time; California Roads
Destani Wolf
Song / recording / production
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Melecio misc 2025 (Andrew Jones autotune, feel so strange, giving video)
Melecio Estrella
Sketch / jam / demo
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My Stages of Limbo (per Frances Sedayao's April 2025 email; folder title '7 Stages of Limbo')
Frances Sedayao
Dance – stage work
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Not Yet (also referenced as 'Not Yet / fog on the mirror')
Monique Jonath
Dance – stage work
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Obsessed
B Dean
A 10-minute solo by B Dean that closed The Gathering Room, a shared evening of new work by Joe Goode Performance Group artists at the Joe Goode Annex on April 26, 2025. Ben built the soundtrack from B's selected songs a…
Dance – stage work 1 press item
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Solo (2025 show); SOLO 2 (2026 showcase)
Barb (Barbara) Lankamp
Ben composed a multi-section score (sections including Pursuit, Rage, Threshold, Privacy, Despair, Improv and Finale) for dancer-choreographer Barb Lankamp's solo dance show 'Solo' at NOHspace in November 2025. He then…
Remix / music edit 3 press items
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Squabble Up (edit, 2025); untitled two-song edit (Mar 2021)
Katie Meyers
Remix / music edit
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Wayward Daughter (folder title)
Damara Vita Ganley
Dance – stage work 1 press item
2024
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A Return to Movement (probable)
Jessica Swanson (director); choreography by Lauren Godla and Kara Starkweather
A 5:51 vertical dance film (US, 2024) celebrating the environmental restoration of the Klamath River after the world's largest dam removal project, with performers suspended on rigging above the water. It was created wi…
Film / video score Video 6 press items
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Common Gradient
Keerati Jinakunwiphat and Mia J. Chong (EIGHT/MOVES)
A sextet by New York-based choreographer Keerati Jinakunwiphat and EIGHT/MOVES artistic director Mia J. Chong, premiered on the company's first season at Z Space in August 2024, with music by Ben developed in a collabor…
Dance – stage work 6 press items
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Dispose
Tara Pilbrow (presumed)
Dance – stage work
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Edging (also referred to as 'Edging on…')
WITH dance collective: Patricia West, Damara Vita Ganley, Óscar Trujillo, Aja Randall, Frances Sedayao · WITH (TBC)
A piece by the dance collective WITH that examines connection and loneliness in contemporary society. It premiered at Joe Goode Performance Group's GUSH Dance Festival in October 2024, with music by Ben.
Dance – stage work 2 press items
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Ground Pressure
Damara Vita Ganley and Mo Katzman
A dance-theater duet that draws on growing up in rural Northern California and asks about the tender wilderness each person carries inside. It premiered at Joe Goode Performance Group's GUSH Festival 2024.
Dance – stage work Video 3 press items
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Inspired Bodies (JGPG youth performance workshop with SFArtsED)
Joe Goode, Damara Vita Ganley and JGPG teaching artists · Joe Goode Performance Group
JGPG's Inspired Bodies youth program with the San Francisco Arts Education Project (SFArtsED), in which young performers dance, sing and create original work with JGPG artists, with music by Ben Juodvalkis.
Education / school residency Video 1 press item
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Iren Kamyshev 2024
Iren Kamyshev (Art.irkA)
Dance – stage work
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Piano Sketches – recording sessions with Mike Dolman
Mike (Michael) Dolman
Song / recording / production
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Run-On
Erin Yen
An interactive solo by Erin Yen, performed with a volunteer audience member who mirrors and responds to her gestures. It honors her late grandmother, explores diverse perspectives within storytelling, and questions the…
Dance – stage work 3 press items
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Somewhere to Land
Melecio Estrella and Damara Vita Ganley · BANDALOOP
A site-specific vertical dance theater work at Alameda's former Naval Air Station Hangar 25 / De-Pave Park. It tells a migration story through dance and a live song cycle by Ben Juodvalkis and Destani Wolf, and it was p…
Dance – site-specific / aerial 8 press items
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The Wednesday Club
Joe Goode (playwright/director) · UC Berkeley
A play with songs by Joe Goode about the Wednesday Club, a group of LGBTQ+ drama enthusiasts and allies who meet in a church basement to test theatrical ideas. Built on songs from the JGPG repertoire, it looks at the ha…
Dance – stage work 5 press items
2023
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As We Go
Joe Goode · Joe Goode Performance Group
An immersive dance-theater work about mortality and the fragility and durability of the body. Small audience groups travel through spaces across YBCA, meeting solos, duets and ensemble scenes.
Dance – stage work 5 press items
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Aurora Sad Magic
Amy Foley (Bellwether Dance Project)
A work for seven dancers about grief and how the natural world can help us understand loss, drawing on Alaskan folklore that describes the northern lights as the dancing souls of lost loved ones. It premiered alongside…
Dance – stage work Video Audio Photos 6 press items
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Bad Birdwatching
Emily Hansel · Emily Hansel and Collaborators
Dance – stage work Video 3 press items
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Bird Strike
Melecio Estrella · BANDALOOP
A vertical dance and live music work inspired by bird migration, nesting and survival in urban spaces, commissioned by Chile's Santiago a Mil festival. It features original bilingual songs by Ben Juodvalkis and Destani…
Dance – site-specific / aerial 6 press items
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Bolo-Lala (Uplift series); 'El Pecho' appears to be a working or folder title
Tara Pilbrow (director/choreographer); dancer Colin Epstein
A short dance film in Tara Pilbrow's Uplift series, which pairs dancers with Alameda artists and makers. In Bolo-Lala, dancer Colin Epstein is paired with costume and fiber artist Krystal Harfert, to music by Ben.
Dance – stage work 2 press items
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Ceremony
BANDALOOP
Dance – site-specific / aerial
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Emergence
Val Caniparoli · San Francisco Ballet (TBC)
A ballet for eight dancers by Val Caniparoli about emerging from pandemic isolation, premiered in San Francisco Ballet's next@90 festival of new works in January 2023. It is set to Dobrinka Tabakova's Concerto for Cello…
Dance – stage work 7 press items
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Empty Where It Echoes
Melecio Estrella and Ben Juodvalkis (artistic direction); choreography by the performers and Melecio Estrella · Lane Community College
Education / school residency
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Friendly Host
Melecio Estrella, Andrew Ward and Damara Ganley (Fog Beast)
A Fog Beast performance event with food that used playful interventions to expose and disrupt the spoken and unspoken social rules of gathering and hosting.
Dance – stage work 1 press item
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Gesture Duet
BANDALOOP (choreographer unconfirmed)
Dance – site-specific / aerial
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Holy Crap
Julie (Jules) Crothers
A solo show that combines embodied storytelling, a cast of unsettled church characters and a handful of queer pop numbers, drawn from Julie Crothers' evangelical upbringing. It expands her 2022 piece 'Are You There God?…
Dance – stage work 7 press items
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Huey
Melecio Estrella (BANDALOOP)
A BANDALOOP vertical dance tribute to Black Panther Party co-founder Huey P. Newton, developed with Fredrika Newton of the Dr. Huey P. Newton Foundation and performed at Pantherfest 2023 in downtown Oakland on October 2…
Dance – site-specific / aerial 5 press items
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I Often Forget
Skip Kirk
Song / recording / production
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I Understand (duet section), at Dance Lovers 11
Joe Goode and Pangea (Pangaea) Colter · Joe Goode Performance Group
A duet from JGPG's 'I Understand', about queer exchange across generations, performed by Joe Goode and Pangea Colter at James Graham's Dance Lovers, an annual evening of duets by couples, crushes and comrades.
Dance – stage work 1 press item
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Inertia (Uplift series)
Tara Pilbrow (direction); videography Maurice Ramirez
A short dance film in Tara Pilbrow's Uplift series, pairing dancer Gabriella Wei with Alameda sculptor and furniture artist Shawn HibmaCronan. Ben composed the music. For this film Tara experimented with a dramatic soun…
Dance – stage work 2 press items
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Let's Go (title in the SFTD 2023 review; Ben's music file is titled 'Hard Pivot')
Bianca Cabrera (Blind Tiger Society)
A site-specific piece for San Francisco Trolley Dances' 20th anniversary, performed outdoors along the downtown tour route. A reviewer described it as a strutting number for six sunglass-wearing women, and Ben composed…
Dance – site-specific / aerial 5 press items
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Long Journey Home
Bruce Nicholson
Film / video score
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Lumos (edit)
BANDALOOP
Remix / music edit
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Prayer
Damara Ganley, Melecio Estrella
Song / recording / production
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Project Adjust 1-5
Sarah Lisette Chiesa · Alonzo King LINES Ballet BFA
A dance-and-film work Sarah Lisette Chiesa made for Alonzo King LINES Ballet BFA students, combining choreography with projected film. Its sound score was assembled by Ben from several of his own earlier tracks together…
Student / BFA work Video 3 press items
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Re-Cycle (Alameda research and development / open rehearsals)
Melecio Estrella (BANDALOOP), with Tara Pilbrow (Tara Pilbrow Dance)
Early research-and-development material, including a trio, for BANDALOOP's Alameda project 'Re-Cycle', a collaboration with Tara Pilbrow Dance that uses the metal girders of Building 25 at Alameda Point to explore clima…
Dance – site-specific / aerial 4 press items
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Simple Pursuits
Tara Pilbrow (direction); videography Maurice Ramirez
A short dance film in Tara Pilbrow's Uplift series, which pairs dancers with Alameda artists. Dancer Hannah Westbrook moves in and around the workshop of furniture maker JP Frary. Ben composed the music.
Dance – stage work Video Photos 5 press items
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Vanilla
Casey Lee Thorne (Inside Out Contemporary Ballet)
A short dance film by Inside Out Contemporary Ballet about global warming, existential dread, and the wonder of the natural world, using vanilla cultivation as a lens on environmental and feminist concerns. Ben recorded…
Dance – stage work Video 4 press items
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What's the Big Idea
Melecio Estrella
Dance – stage work
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When the Landscape Falls Away
KT Nelson (curator and choreographer; RoundAntennae), with eight emerging choreographers
A 60-minute site-specific program at the Berkeley Art Museum curated by KT Nelson, with dances inspired by the avian world by nine choreographers: scenes by eight younger Bay Area choreographers she mentored through Rou…
Dance – stage work 3 press items
2022
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Amelia Rudolf film
Amelia Rudolph · BANDALOOP
Film / video score
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Annihilation of Self
Mark Manjardi (director); Nathaniel Ansbach (co-creator/producer)
Annihilation of Self (2022) is an independent film by Mark Manjardi and Nathaniel Ansbach. Ben composed the score, including an opening song, bagpipes, 'SuitMan Poems', a eulogy cue and a piece titled 'Cows', and record…
Film / video score 1 press item
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Are You There God? It's me, Jules
Julie (Jules) Crothers
Julie Crothers' first self-produced, evening-length solo show, combining dance, theater, storytelling, song and many costume changes. Loosely structured like a church service, it draws on her upbringing in a conservativ…
Dance – stage work Video 3 press items
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Baby Baby (working title from Gmail and folder)
Ben Juodvalkis and Destani Wolf
Song / recording / production
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Black and Gold
Charles Peoples III (singer-songwriter) with Ben Juodvalkis; used in the film Annihilation of Self (dir./prod. Mark Manjardi and Nathaniel Ansbach)
A song by Charles Peoples III and Ben Juodvalkis, licensed in March 2022 for the independent feature film Annihilation of Self, which Ben also scored.
Song / recording / production 1 press item
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College Football Playoff National Championship: BANDALOOP on Salesforce Tower
Melecio Estrella (artistic director); Thomas Cavanagh (producer) · BANDALOOP
A four-minute vertical dance and light show in which six BANDALOOP dancers descended Indianapolis's Salesforce Tower as part of the 2022 College Football Playoff National Championship festivities, set to an original com…
Dance – site-specific / aerial Video 6 press items
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Fever Dreams
Bianca Cabrera (Blind Tiger Society)
A psychedelic dance spectacle inspired by the alebrijes of Mexican folk artist Pedro Linares, in which dancers in vivid costumes become fantastical creatures in a ritual celebration of ancestry. Ben's original score mix…
Dance – stage work Video 7 press items
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Four by Four
Emily Hansel
Four by Four is an evening-length dance work by choreographer Emily Hansel that premiered at ODC Theater in May 2022. Ben contributed original music alongside composer Sophia Cotraccia, who had written much of the earli…
Dance – stage work 4 press items
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GUSH Festival (JGPG contributions: 'I Understand, Queer exchange across generations' 2022; 'Are You Okay?' duet 2024)
Joe Goode, with Molly (Mo) Katzman, Gabe (Gabriel Christian) and Pangaea Colter (2022); Joe Goode and Melecio Estrella (2024) · Joe Goode Performance Group
GUSH is JGPG's festival of performance and artistic exchange at the Joe Goode Annex. Ben composed music for JGPG's pieces there, including the 30-minute intergenerational project 'I Understand, Queer exchange across gen…
Dance – stage work 4 press items
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Handstitched
Virginia Broyles (director/choreographer/producer), co-directed with Chris Lee
Handstitched is a 10-minute dance film in which five people travel to a secret meadow behind snow-capped mountains to take part in a ritual of their own making. Virginia Broyles made it during her MFA, based on her thes…
Film / video score Video 7 press items
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Hurry Up, Say Goodbye
Melecio Estrella (artistic direction); choreography by the performers and Melecio Estrella · Lane Community College
Education / school residency
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Iren Kamyshev 2022
Iren Kamyshev (Art.irkA)
Film / video score
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Kati
Katia Kupelian
Film / video score
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Momentum Curve
Melecio Estrella and Damara Ganley · BANDALOOP
A large-scale vertical dance work for 12 dancers, created to celebrate the 50th anniversary of BMW's Munich headquarters tower, with original music by Ben Juodvalkis. A version was later performed at the Super Bowl LVII…
Commercial / corporate 4 press items
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Oakland sizzle reel
Melecio Estrella · BANDALOOP
Film / video score
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Play the Game
Charles Peoples III
Song / recording / production
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Taking My Time
Casey Lee Thorne (Inside Out Contemporary Ballet)
A short retrospective dance film marking Inside Out Contemporary Ballet's 10th anniversary, assembled from excerpts of the company's works from 2012 to 2022. Casey gave Ben full musical license, and he composed an origi…
Dance – stage work Video 4 press items
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These Lines Are Living (Shoreline performance at Animate Dance Festival); CV title 'The Shoreline Project'
Melecio Estrella and Andrew Ward (Fog Beast)
An outdoor, place-based dance performance for changing shorelines that brought together live music, climate science, community practice and a youth ensemble at Alameda's Seaplane Lagoon. It extended Fog Beast's Headland…
Dance – site-specific / aerial 2 press items
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Through the Page
Film / video score 1 press item
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Untitled aerial piece (per a festival attendee's description); title TBD
Suzanne Gallo (Destiny Arts Center)
An aerial dance piece for Destiny Arts Center's youth company, choreographed by Suzanne Gallo with a commissioned score by Ben Juodvalkis. It was performed at the Youth Matinee of the 2022 San Francisco Aerial Arts Fest…
Education / school residency 1 press item
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We Are All Friends
Molly Rose-Williams
Molly Rose-Williams' first solo show, which mixes dance, theater, mime and storytelling to explore the trials of love and the promise and pitfalls of self-help culture, using absurd physical and situational comedy.
Dance – stage work 1 press item
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Who Lights the Sun?
Keelan Whitmore
A work by Keelan Whitmore for Open Space Dance Company, built on the archetype of 'The Hero' from ancient mythologies, spiritual traditions and literary histories. Whitmore describes it as a reflection of past, present…
Dance – stage work Video 6 press items
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Yale Schwarzman Center Opening Celebration (BANDALOOP aerial performance)
Melecio Estrella (artistic director), with Chibueze Crouch (text/performer) · BANDALOOP
A site-specific BANDALOOP aerial performance for the opening celebration of the Yale Schwarzman Center, with dancers descending from the rafters of Commons. It featured Yale alumnus Chibueze Crouch and live songs with t…
Education / school residency 1 press item
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you came from this
Melecio Estrella / Fog Beast · Lane Community College
Education / school residency
2021
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Artist-in-Residence, Doolan-Larson House – multi-room audio documentary/soundscape; video 'Movement in Place'
Ben Juodvalkis (resident artist); San Francisco Heritage
During a 2021 residency with San Francisco Heritage at the Doolan-Larson House in Haight-Ashbury, Ben turned the attic into a studio and created a multi-room audio documentary for public tours. It combines original musi…
Other Video 4 press items
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Bones of Chaos (2021) and Already Infinite (2022)
Marika Brussel · Kansas City Ballet
Two works by Marika Brussel for Kansas City Ballet with music by Ben. Bones of Chaos (2021) is a dance film, inspired by Rumi's poem 'The Guest House', about the interplay of chaos and order, made during the pandemic. A…
Dance – stage work Video 6 press items
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Breathe
Tara Pilbrow (Tara Pilbrow Dance / Animate Alameda); dramaturg Jeff Raz
An outdoor dance piece by Tara Pilbrow, begun in September 2020, that responds to the pandemic, racial justice movements, and environmental crisis, using breath as a way to ground the body under stress. Ben's score mixe…
Dance – stage work Video 4 press items
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DOORS (dance film)
Alisa Rasera (Frolik Dance)
A dance film by Alisa Rasera structured around different 'door worlds,' each with its own musical character. Ben composed the score in 2020, and the film was completed in spring 2021, with an audio-described version by…
Dance – stage work Audio Photos 6 press items
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Fire and Teeth
Casey Lee Thorne and Katie Meyers · Marin Ballet
A site-specific dance film for Marin Ballet's 2021 Contemporary Spring Concert, made during the pandemic and choreographed by Casey Lee Thorne and Katie Meyers for dancers from four levels of the school. Ben edited and…
Dance – stage work 1 press item
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GW Bicentennial Bash (BANDALOOP vertical dance performance on Gelman Library)
Rachael Lincoln (BANDALOOP gig director)
Music drafts for a BANDALOOP vertical dance performance on the walls of Gelman Library at George Washington University's Bicentennial Bash in October 2021. The client asked for a more uplifting, celebratory direction, s…
Education / school residency 3 press items
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JGPG residency at Kirby School
Joe Goode Performance Group teaching artists Molly Katzman and Damara Vita Ganley
Education / school residency
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LINES BFA piece (Anne-René Petrarca)
Anne-René Petrarca · Alonzo King LINES Ballet BFA (Dominican University)
A piece for the freshman class of the LINES Ballet BFA program at Dominican University, choreographed by faculty member Anne-René Petrarca to an original sound score by Ben Juodvalkis. Mary Oliver's poem 'Wild Geese' se…
Student / BFA work Audio Photos 1 press item
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LOOM: FIELD (also FIELD; the 'Caught in a Loom' song)
Melecio Estrella (director) · BANDALOOP
The second part of BANDALOOP's LOOM trilogy, a 35-45 minute outdoor vertical dance theater work with live original music, spoken word and fabric. It explores the ancestral power of textiles and the environmental effects…
Dance – site-specific / aerial 7 press items
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Low Tide
Melecio Estrella, Damara Ganley and Andrew Ward (Fog Beast)
An outdoor dance and live-music piece that unfolds on Bay Area shorelines, bringing together body, landscape and climate science where land meets water. It grew out of Fog Beast's Headlands commission These Lines Are Li…
Dance – site-specific / aerial 2 press items
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Motherfucking Shitballs
BANDALOOP touring company
A song made up on a party bus carrying the BANDALOOP company from Birmingham, Alabama to Atlanta, Georgia on September 25, 2021, between the LOOM tour's Birmingham run and the Atlanta residency that became FIELD. B Dean…
Sketch / jam / demo Video
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Mountains Remembering (edit)
Casey Lee Thorne
Remix / music edit
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Ocean Blue
Julia Napier
Dance – stage work
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Pent
Katie Faulkner · Stanford University
A dance film made with Stanford students during the pandemic, about pent-up energy and creative potential during a year of confinement, with music by Ben Juodvalkis.
Dance – stage work Video Photos 4 press items
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Piano demos
Chelsea (Sea) Nobbs
Song / recording / production
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Real Words
Joe Goode · Joe Goode Performance Group
Education / school residency
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Sylvester and the Magic Pebble (audiobook narration recording)
Julia Napier (narrator)
Song / recording / production
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The Duke of the Haight (DL House Anthem)
Ben Juodvalkis (songwriter); commissioned/encouraged by Nancy Gille, former SF Heritage board chair · San Francisco Heritage
A ballad Ben wrote during his 2021 SF Heritage artist residency at the Doolan-Larson House, telling the life story of the building's longtime resident Norm Larson, known as 'The Duke of the Haight'.
Song / recording / production 3 press items
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The Oriental Woman
Alyssandra Katherine Wu (Alyssandra Katharine Dance)
A dance film/residency project that looks at stereotypes and fetishization of Asian women in Western culture and at how Asian women's identities have been shaped by a Western male gaze. It was developed and shown during…
Dance – stage work Video Photos 3 press items
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Time of Change
Joe Goode, Melecio Estrella, OYSTERKNIFE (Chibueze Crouch and Gabriele Christian), co-directors · Joe Goode Performance Group
A roving, site-specific dance-theater experience in the Haight-Ashbury, with pop-up moments of original music, monologues and movement, delivered partly through an audio tour on headphones. It weighs the hippie era's ut…
Dance – site-specific / aerial Video 13 press items
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Turntables (Berkeley Dance Project 2021)
Latanya d. Tigner (director and choreographer) and Lashon Daley (director and dramaturg) · UC Berkeley – Theater, Dance & Performance Studies
A 41-minute dance film about the Cal Bearettes, UC Berkeley's majorette-style dance team, and their push for recognition. It links their story to 1960s civil-rights sit-ins through HBCU majorette 'stand' and 'sit' vocab…
Dance – stage work 4 press items
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Undertow
Melecio Estrella and Andrew Ward (Fog Beast)
Dance – stage work
2020
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Again
Ben Juodvalkis (songwriter)
Song / recording / production
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Already Done
Tassiana Willis (artist)
Song / recording / production
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blackstar (BLACKSTAR); live-streamed version 'blackstar (document)'
Maurya Kerr (tinypistol)
An expansion of kosmos by tinypistol, made as a dance film during the pandemic, that centers Black and brown bodies and asks what a free or decolonized body might look and feel like. The film won several festival awards.
Dance – stage work Video 5 press items
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Breathe Through
Melecio Estrella (artistic director); filmed and edited by Jessica Swanson · BANDALOOP
A roughly four-minute BANDALOOP dance film made as an artistic response to shelter-in-place and the shift to mass mask-wearing in 2020. It has an original score by Ben Juodvalkis that moves from melancholy toward a drea…
Film / video score Video 1 press item
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Carina Babe
Carina
Sketch / jam / demo
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EDGE (Hudson Yards observation deck opening performance)
BANDALOOP
Music for BANDALOOP's vertical dance performance at the opening of Edge, the outdoor observation deck at Hudson Yards. Dancers rappelled from above the viewing platform and performed more than 1,000 feet above the stree…
Dance – site-specific / aerial Video 2 press items
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Flood
Melecio Estrella · BANDALOOP
The first part of BANDALOOP's LOOM trilogy about the ecological and social impacts of textiles and fast fashion. It premiered at the opening of The Momentary in Bentonville, Arkansas, with projection design informed by…
Dance – site-specific / aerial Video Photos 8 press items
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Fog Beast — SF Trolley Dances
Melecio Estrella and Andrew Ward (Fog Beast)
A roughly six-minute site-specific dance film for the all-online 17th San Francisco Trolley Dances, made at the Dogpatch Ropewalk park, which honors the historic Tubbs Cordage rope factory. Conceived as a single traveli…
Dance – site-specific / aerial Video 5 press items
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Gabe Armstrong misc (Karaoke, Jurassic, Voyager)
Gabe Armstrong
Sketch / jam / demo
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Herakles (working title, TBC)
Keelan Whitmore
A project concept by Keelan Whitmore centred on the mythological hero Herakles (his physical strength and his lack of restraint), for which Ben began composing in June 2020.
Dance – stage work 1 press item
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Just Walk My Way
Ben Juodvalkis (songwriter)
Song / recording / production
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Kronos Quartet sketches
David Harrington (Kronos Quartet) – informal collaboration
Other
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Ocean (2020 remaster)
Bianca Cabrera · Blind Tiger Society
Remix / music edit
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ODC beats & jams
ODC
Class music / accompaniment
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Oh My Darling (working title from email subject)
Ben Juodvalkis with Tamsin Roitz (co-writer)
Song / recording / production
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The 100 Million Project (Knight Foundation / Show of Force documentary shorts on non-voters) – Arizona and New York pieces; Ben's music not used
Alexandra Nikolchev (director/producer) for Show of Force; Zara Katz · TBC ('100 Million' campaign)
In January 2020 Alexandra Nikolchev asked Ben to score short documentary films about American non-voters that she was directing for Show of Force as part of the Knight Foundation's 100 Million Project, including Arizona…
Commercial / corporate 3 press items
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The Black (W)hole
Sarah Crowell and Rashidi Omari (Destiny Arts Center), with Marc Bamuthi Joseph, Yoram Savion (YAKfilms), and Risa Jaroslow; aerial choreography with BANDALOOP / Suzanne Gallo
A multidisciplinary Destiny Arts Center project that mourns and honors six young people who died in and around Oakland before the age of 32, against a backdrop of gentrification and displacement, developed with their fa…
Education / school residency 2 press items
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These Lines Are Living
Melecio Estrella and Andrew Ward (Fog Beast)
A Headlands Center for the Arts commission of place-based, multi-generational dances about shorelines, climate change and community. It combined live music, song, science, a beach walk and a shared meal. The March 2020…
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United in Belonging (Berkeley Dance Project 2020)
Latanya d. Tigner (piece); BDP 2020 directed by Lisa Wymore · UC Berkeley – Theater, Dance & Performance Studies
Latanya d. Tigner's contribution to Berkeley Dance Project 2020, a meditation on building a culture of belonging, set to a soundtrack by Ben Juodvalkis that combines music and spoken text.
Dance – stage work 2 press items
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Unwind
Melecio Estrella and Andrew Ward (Fog Beast)
Dance – stage work
2019
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Alice in Californiland
Arthur Pita · AXIS Dance Company
A dance-theater work for AXIS Dance Company that sets Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland against the Bay Area's homelessness and addiction crisis. Alice appears in two versions, her real circumstances and a drug-induce…
Dance – stage work Photos 11 press items
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Boucan
Cirk biZ'arT, created by Laurie Roger, Jonah Katz and Rémy Bombled · Cirk Biz'Art (Cirque Biz-Arte)
A 73-minute, all-ages show mixing circus, beatbox, time travel and comedy, loosely inspired by Beckett's 'Waiting for Godot'. Three disoriented characters clean up after a chaotic party while a live beatboxer drives the…
Theater / musical / spoken word 3 press items
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Casey Thorne edit 2019
Casey Thorne
Remix / music edit
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Channel Surfing
James Graham (now known as Bear Graham; Bear Graham Productions / James Graham Dance Theatre)
Dance – stage work
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College audition solo (untitled)
Nicola Wong (student), working with her teacher 'D'
Dance – stage work
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Coyote Waltz (dance film)
Amelia Rudolph (director) · BANDALOOP
A roughly nine-minute site-responsive dance film shot on and around the Rostrum, the Merced River and Turtle Rock in Yosemite. It reimagines the waltz form musically and choreographically as a playful look at people's r…
Dance – site-specific / aerial 2 press items
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Darling, don't make it easy
Joe Goode · Joe Goode Performance Group
A cabaret-style weekend of JGPG songs and dance excerpts, featuring favorites from Still Standing and other company works, with the Joe Goode Annex transformed for the event.
Dance – stage work 1 press item
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Divining
Katie Faulkner · little seismic dance company
An evening-length work by little seismic dance company that looks at magic, ritual and divination practices as embodied ways of making meaning, set to a commissioned score by Ben Juodvalkis.
Dance – stage work Video Audio Photos 11 press items
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GOLDEN
Kate Mitchell (with Bianca Cabrera, per LA Dance Chronicle)
GOLDEN is a wordless screendance by Kate Mitchell about a middle-aged woman who, after years of repetitive domestic life, rediscovers her independence and emotional and sexual vibrancy. Ben composed the score and separa…
Film / video score 5 press items
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Home (song)
Ben Juodvalkis
Song / recording / production
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JGPG Inspired Bodies residency at El Cerrito High School (pieces incl. PRISM 2019; Kaleidoscope 2023)
Joe Goode, JGPG teaching artists (coordinated by Patricia West and Damara Vita Ganley); host teacher Jessy Kronenberg · Joe Goode Performance Group
A recurring Joe Goode Performance Group high school residency in which JGPG teaching artists create original dance pieces with El Cerrito High School dancers, with original music by Ben Juodvalkis. The 2019 edition, PRI…
Education / school residency 1 press item
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JGPG Inspired Bodies residency at Oakland Technical High School
Joe Goode Performance Group teaching artists (coordinated by Patricia West)
A recurring Joe Goode Performance Group Inspired Bodies residency at Oakland Technical High School. Students create original movement pieces with JGPG teaching artists, and Ben composes music that incorporates the stude…
Education / school residency 1 press item
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JGPG residency at Silver Creek High School
Virginia Munday (JGPG teaching artist, leading the Silver Creek piece), with Damara Vita Ganley and Patricia West (JGPG education) · Joe Goode Performance Group
A Joe Goode Performance Group high school residency at Silver Creek High School in San Jose. Ben composed a short score (about four minutes) that wove in students' recorded voices, including a Tagalog recording, to acco…
Education / school residency 1 press item
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Let Slip the Witches
Amy Foley (Bellwether Dance Project)
A near hour-long work for women that reclaims the witch archetype as a figure of feminine power, ritual and resistance, moving from a hushed invocation to driving, rhythmic, body-percussive sections. The title quotes Sh…
Dance – stage work Video Audio Photos 12 press items
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Music library for Erica Galante
Erica Galante
Sketch / jam / demo
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Nueva School for the Arts composition-for-dance master class (2019)
Allison Frenzel (host) · The Nueva School
Education / school residency
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Oil Change
Amelia Rudolph · BANDALOOP
Dance – site-specific / aerial
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Sample replacement production
Natasha Adorlee Johnson
Song / recording / production
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Songwriting sketches 2019–2020
Ben Juodvalkis
Sketch / jam / demo
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The Big Reveal
Melecio Estrella and Andrew Ward (Fog Beast)
A dance-performance 'convening' at the Asian Art Museum that mixed choreography, original songs and interactive learning sessions on human migration, living history and belonging. Its day-long structure imitated, and sa…
Dance – stage work 6 press items
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the body remembers (Berkeley Dance Project 2019)
Directed by Joe Goode; choreographers Joe Goode (with students), Rulan Tangen, Latanya d. Tigner, Cherie Hill, Katie O'Connor · UC Berkeley – Theater, Dance & Performance Studies
UC Berkeley's 2019 Berkeley Dance Project, marking 50 years of dance at Berkeley and directed by Joe Goode. Ben Juodvalkis composed and designed sound for works by Joe Goode ('the undefended heart'), Rulan Tangen and La…
Dance – stage work 3 press items
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The House of the Spirits
Michael Socrates Moran (director); play by Caridad Svich after Isabel Allende's novel · UC Berkeley – Theater, Dance & Performance Studies
A UC Berkeley TDPS production of Caridad Svich's play with songs, adapted from Isabel Allende's novel and following the Trueba family over five decades. Ben Juodvalkis worked with the cast on the music and made backing…
Theater / musical / spoken word 5 press items
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UNRAVELED
Alyssandra Katherine Wu (Alyssandra Katherine Dance; Alyssandra Katherine Dance Project at the time of the premiere)
An evening-length ensemble work for five performers that combines dance, spoken word and film projection to examine dependency, addiction and isolation. Its text draws on the performers' own stories and on interviews wi…
Dance – stage work Photos 8 press items
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Where I Have Landed
DAP collective (Damara Vita Ganley, Aja Randall, Patricia West)
Dance – stage work
2018
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#ATLPublicCanvas (Atlanta Public Canvas)
Amelia Rudolph and Melecio Estrella (BANDALOOP)
The Atlanta edition of BANDALOOP's #PublicCanvas, an evening-length, community-driven format combining vertical dance, local stories, music and spoken word. The Sept 2018 week-long residency with Georgia Tech Arts inclu…
Dance – site-specific / aerial 4 press items
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8x8 2018 Intro (probably for Paufve Dance's 8x8x8)
Melecio Estrella (Fog Beast) · Paufve Dance 8x8x8 (TBC)
Dance – stage work 1 press item
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Berkeley Dance Project 2018
Directed by James Graham and Katie Faulkner · UC Berkeley – Theater, Dance & Performance Studies
UC Berkeley Theater, Dance & Performance Studies' annual student dance concert for 2018, a program of new works shaped by the #MeToo moment and exploring power and the experience of being a woman.
Dance – stage work 3 press items
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Furling Polyphony
Amelia Rudolph · BANDALOOP
A vertical dance sextet by Amelia Rudolph with an original score by Ben Juodvalkis. It was presented at the 2018 San Francisco Aerial Arts Festival after showings in Oakland and at the Utah Arts Festival.
Dance – site-specific / aerial 4 press items
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FURY (end-credits music)
Kate Duhamel (producer/creator, CandyBomber); choreographer Dani Rowe
FURY is a live concert-and-ballet show inspired by Mad Max: Fury Road, produced by Kate Duhamel. Ben composed the music for the show's video end-credits roll, plus a separate five-minute percussion loop for the bows.
Film / video score 6 press items
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Heather Baer Hawaii piece
Heather Baer
Dance – stage work
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JGPG Inspired Bodies residency at Lowell High School
Joe Goode Performance Group teaching artists (coordinated by Damara Vita Ganley); host teacher Wendy Jones
A recurring JGPG residency in which teaching artists and Lowell High School dancers create an original piece for the school's spring dance concert, with music by Ben Juodvalkis. In 2021 the residency ran remotely and pr…
Education / school residency 1 press item
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JGPG Inspired Bodies residency at Yerba Buena High School
Joe Goode Performance Group teaching artists (coordinated by Damara Vita Ganley); host teacher Rhonda Chan
A recurring Joe Goode Performance Group high school residency at Yerba Buena High School in San Jose, part of JGPG's free Inspired Bodies dance-theater program, with original music by Ben Juodvalkis for the students' de…
Education / school residency 2 press items
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Joe Goode after-concert set
Ben Juodvalkis · Joe Goode Performance Group
A 30-minute concert Ben and Melecio Estrella played in the Haas-Lilienthal House right after the closing-weekend Thursday show of Joe Goode's Still Standing, under projected visuals. The set: a cover of Rihanna's Love o…
Sketch / jam / demo Video Photos 2 press items
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kosmos
Maurya Kerr (tinypistol)
An evening-length dance work by Maurya Kerr's tinypistol that uses cosmic imagery to propose that claiming boundlessness is a political act for people of color. In tinypistol's words, 'kosmos' boldly imagines the new te…
Dance – stage work Video 7 press items
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Latanya Tigner edit 2018
Latanya Tigner
Remix / music edit
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Maafa – Revealing the Story
Colette Eloi (EL WAH Movement Dance Theater)
An African diasporic and contemporary dance-theater piece whose title refers to the Maafa, the historical catastrophe of the transatlantic slave trade. It was presented on CubaCaribe's 2018 festival, themed 'The Movemen…
Dance – stage work Video 3 press items
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Make the Hold Happen (title per CV)
Melecio Estrella, Andrew Ward · CSU Long Beach
Education / school residency
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Manimal Suite
Melecio Estrella and Andrew Ward (Fog Beast)
A talking, singing and dancing trio in which three men pick apart everyday masculine composure, opening with a mock post-show discussion about what dance is expected to be. It was an early study for The Big Reveal.
Dance – stage work Video 6 press items
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Marin Ballet piece 2017–18
Casey Lee Thorne · Marin Ballet
Dance – stage work
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PIP video
Natasha Adorlee Johnson (Natasha Adorlee)
Film / video score
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RE-QUEUED (probable; Vimeo title 'RE-QUEUED 2019')
Bianca Cabrera (Blind Tiger Society)
Dance – stage work Video 1 press item
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Salt Lake City duet
Amelia Rudolph (BANDALOOP artistic director)
Music Ben made for BANDALOOP's June 2018 Utah Arts Festival engagement on the facade of the Salt Lake City Main Library. The festival preview credits Ben with the score for the new six-dancer ensemble piece ('like exper…
Dance – site-specific / aerial 2 press items
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Sea Change
Joe Goode Performance Group teaching artists (Inspired Bodies youth program), with San Francisco Arts Education Project (SFArtsED)
The first evening-length show by JGPG's Inspired Bodies youth education program, made with SFArtsED. Young performers explore transformation, love, loss and the endurance of joy, to an original score by Ben Juodvalkis.
Dance – stage work Video 4 press items
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Still Standing
Joe Goode · Joe Goode Performance Group
An immersive, site-specific dance-theater work staged throughout the Haas-Lilienthal House, an 1886 Victorian that survived the 1906 earthquake. It explores resilience, repair and reinvention through movement, spoken st…
Dance – stage work Video 8 press items
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The House on Lucky Street
Shani Heckman (director, Shanestar Productions); Gabriel Armstrong (editor/score)
A short hybrid documentary-fiction film by Shani Heckman about the last two residents of a haunted Victorian at 13 Lucky Street in San Francisco's Mission District: a 100-year-old ghost, Carmelita Reyes, and a human ten…
Film / video score 2 press items
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Women's Trio
Amelia Rudolph (probable) · BANDALOOP
Dance – site-specific / aerial
2017
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#ProvidencePublicCanvas (PVD Public Canvas)
Amelia Rudolph (show flow/direction), with Melecio Estrella · BANDALOOP
The second edition of BANDALOOP's #PublicCanvas, presented at PVDFest. The roughly 30-minute show adapted scenes from the San Francisco edition (a Melecio Estrella solo and duet, a quartet, a women's trio and a finale)…
Dance – site-specific / aerial Video 7 press items
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Can't Tell the Future (Mt. Tam)
Melecio Estrella (Fog Beast)
Dance – site-specific / aerial
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Custom dance mix incorporating Sting's 'Brand New Day' (Heather Baer 2017)
Heather Baer (Fitness in Transit dance company)
Remix / music edit
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He's One of Us
Andrew Ward and Melecio Estrella (Fog Beast)
A multi-layered song, movement and audience-participation work commissioned by YBCA for its first TRANSFORM Festival, answering the prompt 'Why Citizenship?'. It draws on historical and personal stories of immigration,…
Dance – stage work Video 3 press items
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Heed the Call
Laura G. Chirinos (writer/director)
Heed the Call is a short period drama written and directed by Laura G. Chirinos about a young woman facing sexism and rumors of the 'lesbian threat' as she joins the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps, formed in 1942. The sto…
Film / video score 3 press items
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Men's Trio (working title)
Amelia Rudolph (with dancer Roel Seeber) · BANDALOOP
Dance – site-specific / aerial
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MESH
Daiane Lopes da Silva (Kinetech Arts; digital art by Weidong Yang) · KINITECH
A multimedia dance-theater work by Kinetech Arts that combines choreography with interactive technology, following fragmented stories of people facing uncertainty and testing their resilience. Ben composed the original…
Dance – stage work 7 press items
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MFA solo
Casey Lee Thorne
Dance – stage work
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MUSTER
Katie Faulkner · little seismic dance company
Dance – stage work
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NETWORK
Krista DeNio (Moving Ground)
An ensemble-devised dance-theater work about systems of communication and confinement in the human and plant worlds. It draws on research and on interviews with formerly incarcerated people, honoring human resilience in…
Dance – stage work Video 6 press items
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ONE Toyota GO (corporate event); music later reworked as BANDALOOP Sextet (2018)
Rachael Lincoln (directed the BANDALOOP gig); 2018 sextet by Amelia Rudolf and Melecio Estrella · BANDALOOP for Toyota
Music commissioned for a BANDALOOP vertical dance performance at a Toyota corporate event in Plano, Texas (July 2-7, 2017). The client rejected Ben's demo, and the producer's own music partner supplied the final track.…
Commercial / corporate 1 press item
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Orishas (UC Berkeley)
Amara Tabor-Smith (course instructor), UC Berkeley TDPS, with student cohorts · UC Berkeley – Theater, Dance & Performance Studies
Dance – stage work
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Point of Dissolve (including the 'Journey for a Traveller' replacement cue)
Claudia Anata Hubiak (The Anata Project)
Point of Dissolve is The Anata Project's evening-length study connecting the spectrum of effort with the societal standard that working harder equates with greater self-worth, set to an original score by Ben Juodvalkis…
Song / recording / production 3 press items
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SAP SuccessConnect 2017 opening (London) and 'On the Pulse' soundscape (Las Vegas)
John Sander (PH Productions, producer/director); Amelia Rudolph (BANDALOOP choreography, London) · PH Productions / BANDALOOP for SAP
Original music for SAP's SuccessConnect keynote events, produced by PH Productions. For London, Ben scored an opening video and BANDALOOP vertical dance reveal, reworked in a guitar-driven, punk-influenced style. For La…
Commercial / corporate Video 3 press items
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Sauna
Sketch / jam / demo
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Skipped Beats
Casey Lee Thorne · Marin Ballet
A piece Casey Lee Thorne choreographed for Marin Ballet's 2017 Spring Concert, set to a song-based track that Ben Juodvalkis edited and prepared.
Dance – stage work 1 press item
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Songs with Lila Blue (working titles 'Ooh Ah', 'You Know', 'Middle of the Day')
Lila Blue (singer-songwriter) with Ben Juodvalkis; Still Standing directed by Joe Goode
Songs Ben wrote and developed with singer-songwriter Lila Blue in 2017, some of which became part of Joe Goode Performance Group's site-specific music-theater work Still Standing in 2018, including 'You Know'.
Song / recording / production 2 press items
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Sound Design for the Stage (workshop)
Ben Juodvalkis with Allison Frenzel (Nueva School for the Performing Arts, Windsor High School) · AME
Education / school residency
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Toe the Line
Katie Faulkner · little seismic dance company
A site-specific work by Katie Faulkner's little seismic dance company, commissioned by San Francisco Trolley Dances and performed in Stevenson Alley, with original music by Ben Juodvalkis.
Dance – site-specific / aerial 3 press items
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Visioneering (trailer)
Laura G. Chirinos
Film / video score
2016
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#SFPublicCanvas (San Francisco Public Canvas)
Amelia Rudolph (artistic director, BANDALOOP), with Melecio Estrella
A multimedia vertical dance performance on the facade of a Tenderloin/Central Market building, combining dance, spoken word, live and recorded music, and projection-mapped imagery drawn from the neighborhood's history a…
Dance – site-specific / aerial Video 6 press items
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Chimera
Marica Petrey
'Chimera' is a song by Marica Petrey, listed on the lyrics page of her band Girl Swallows Nightingale; its lyrics open 'Unfold, unfold, unfold'. Ben's 2016 project folder suggests he worked on an early version.
Song / recording / production 1 press item
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Erin Ross tracks (Dark Disco, Dark Nostalgia, Fun-k, Sultry)
Erin Ross
Song / recording / production
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Flashmob
Natalie Greene
Sketch / jam / demo
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If I Were You - Project Israel (excerpt) / The Sonder Project - Israel Excerpt
Casey Lee Thorne (Inside Out Contemporary Ballet) · PUSHfest
An 8-minute excerpt of Inside Out Contemporary Ballet's 2015 'If I Were You - Project Israel', performed at PUSHfest 2016 alongside 17 other Bay Area dance makers. Ben edited the score down to under eight minutes for th…
Remix / music edit 3 press items
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Life Giving Opposition (probable)
Katherine Cook
A ten-minute timed soundscape for a four-dancer improvisation score by Katherine Cook, inspired by John Cage's 1944 writing on rhythmic clarity and grace. Four distinct 'alarm' sounds (vibraphone, dark crash, synth effe…
Film / video score 1 press item
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Live looping vocal performance templates (covers such as 'Spooky', 'The Bird', 'One Day', 'Depreston')
Ben Juodvalkis
Song / recording / production
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Molat & Molat
Kate Duhamel
A 6-minute dance film by Kate Duhamel that tells the story of ballet dancer Pascal Molat's dancing as narrated by his five-year-old son Matisse. Ben's score mixes hip-hop and ballet sections and weaves in recorded voice…
Film / video score 2 press items
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Plow
Katie Faulkner · UC Berkeley – Berkeley Dance Project
A dance for UC Berkeley students by Katie Faulkner looking at the effects of unchecked growth, overdevelopment and displacement in the Bay Area, with an original score by Ben Juodvalkis.
Dance – stage work 3 press items
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Reentry: The Process of Resilience
Joe Goode · UC Berkeley / JGPG
A physical theater piece for UC Berkeley's TDPS department built from verbatim interviews with Cal student veterans. Through text, movement and music it portrays the veterans' return to civilian and campus life and thei…
Education / school residency 5 press items
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Savoy (video portrait of Mr. Wulfert, Hotel Savoy Berlin)
Alexa Karolinski
A short video portrait of Bodo Wulfert, the long-serving concierge and reception manager of the Hotel Savoy in Berlin, directed by Alexa Karolinski. Ben composed a new solo-piano score for the hotel's release of the fil…
Film / video score Photos
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Siempre Más Alto
Natalie Greene (director/writer/producer, USF Department of Performing Arts & Social Justice), with co-creator/editor Eric R. Garcia
A short documentary by USF dance faculty member Natalie Greene about the service-learning summer program she leads in Tacna, Peru, through the University of San Francisco's Department of Performing Arts & Social Justice…
Dance – stage work 1 press item
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Songs with Tassiana Willis (demos; BANDALOOP Women's Trio 2017; 'Disconnected' in Still Standing 2018; 'Change the World'; 'Already Done' 2020)
Tassiana Willis (vocalist/songwriter)
Ben has a long songwriting and production collaboration with vocalist Tassiana Willis, spanning early demos, the 2017 BANDALOOP Women's Trio, songs for BANDALOOP and Joe Goode Performance Group projects, the song 'Chang…
Song / recording / production 1 press item
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TERRAIN (Terrain: Dance Fashion Photography)
Kate Mitchell (producer, concept, costumes); choreography by Bianca Cabrera, Brittany Brown Ceres, Claudia Anata Hubiak, and a section by Anna
An evening combining dance, fashion and photography that links the patterns of women's bodies to natural landscapes. It pushes back against society's dismissive attitudes toward aging women and toward nature. Four chore…
Dance – stage work 2 press items
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The Bridge Part I & Part II
Yayoi Kambara and Jeremy Smith, in collaboration with Matthew Francis
A dance work about homelessness and housing insecurity in San Francisco, asking how to bridge the gap between oneself and someone living on the streets. Commissioned by Dance Mission Theater for the 2016 DIRT Festival a…
Dance – stage work 2 press items
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The Plight of the Lonely Heart (probable)
Casey Lee Thorne
A piece Casey Lee Thorne choreographed for Marin Ballet's pre-professional dancers, presented with the Regional Dance America festival. Ben built the score by combining a cappella vocal material with Max Richter's 'Nove…
Dance – stage work 2 press items
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The Resilience Project
Joe Goode (Joe Goode Performance Group)
A movement and theater project about recovering from trauma, built from verbatim interviews with veterans, their families and others, and staged with dance, gesture, song and spoken word. It has been developed in reside…
Education / school residency 8 press items
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Upwell (Cisco Live 2016 performance)
Melecio Estrella · BANDALOOP for Cisco
Commercial / corporate
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What Do I Remember
Wei-Shan Lai (Wei-Shan Lai & Dancers)
A multidisciplinary dance-theatre work about loss and how the brain changes during healing, combining dance, text, projected brain-cell imagery and neuroscience research. The cast included a dancer who uses a wheelchair…
Dance – stage work 1 press item
2015
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Change
Melecio Estrella and Andrew Ward (Fog Beast)
A roughly 50-minute dance-theater musical with live rock music about climate change. It follows the scientific, emotional and physical paths of humans and animals in a warming world, made with climate scientist Dr. Andr…
Dance – stage work 2 press items
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Chase film + 70s Cop Theme
Gabe Armstrong (Gabriel Armstrong)
Film / video score
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Dressage
Bianca Cabrera (Blind Tiger Society)
A Blind Tiger Society work about obedience and rebellion that uses the imagery of horse training to 're-wild' the body, combining technical contemporary dance with contact improvisation. Bianca Cabrera described it as '…
Dance – stage work 3 press items
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Heather Baer 2015 piece
Heather Baer
Dance – stage work
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If I Were You - Project Israel (later retitled The Sonder Project - Israel)
Casey Lee Thorne (Inside Out Contemporary Ballet)
An evening-length contemporary ballet by Casey Lee Thorne for Inside Out Contemporary Ballet. It grew out of her 2014–15 Fulbright Fellowship, during which she led free dance workshops in Israel and the West Bank and co…
Dance – stage work Video 6 press items
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Poem recordings
Patrick Oshlund
Theater / musical / spoken word
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Poetics of Space
Joe Goode · Joe Goode Performance Group
An immersive dance-theater installation based on Gaston Bachelard's book The Poetics of Space. Audience members move through a series of intimate rooms, and where they choose to look and go shapes a personal, close-up e…
Dance – stage work Video 8 press items
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Porter
Bianca Cabrera (Blind Tiger Society)
A contemporary dance work exploring West Oakland's railroad-worker heritage (the Pullman porters), with themes of history, belonging, change and invention. Ben composed the score.
Dance – stage work 2 press items
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State Space
Daiane Lopes da Silva (KINITECH / Kinetech Arts), for Robert Moses' Kin
A fast-paced quintet built on the Markov chain, a mathematical model: a computer decides in real time which set phrases the dancers perform, so each performance unfolds differently. It was created by KINITECH's Daiane L…
Dance – stage work 3 press items
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Talsikan (later revised as 'Talsik', 2016)
Norbert De La Cruz III · BalletX
A ballet for BalletX by Norbert De La Cruz III whose Tagalog title refers to varied flights, leaps, and splashes. Dancers reshape white corset-boning tubes into shifting formations while the piece plays with classical b…
Dance – stage work 5 press items
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The Invention of Wings
Brenda Way and KT Nelson (ODC/Dance)
A stage work by ODC/Dance about freedom, censorship, and confinement, adapted from the company's 2014 site-specific performance at Ai Weiwei's @Large exhibition on Alcatraz. It uses projected prison imagery and video by…
Dance – stage work 8 press items
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The New Normal
Nueva School for the Performing Arts (Allison Frenzel, coordinator), with Fog Beast (Melecio Estrella, Andrew Ward); musical director Ben Juodvalkis · The Nueva School
Film / video score
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This Year Is Different
Liz Tenuto · Gray Area
Dance – stage work
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To Go Again
Joe Goode · AXIS Dance Company
A dance-theater work for AXIS Dance Company about the lives of military veterans with disabilities and their families. It is built from interviews, and the dancers speak and sing the testimonies as they move.
Dance – stage work Video Audio Photos 14 press items
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Vessel
Mimi Cave
Vessel is a 13-minute short film written and directed by Mimi Cave. A six-year-old boy is woken in the night by Jane for a series of misadventures that grow more fragile as her instability shows, exploring the responsib…
Film / video score Video 8 press items
2014
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Astrid (three-part score: Rumble / Warm / Light)
Astrid Bas
A three-part score by Ben Juodvalkis ('Rumble', 'Warm' and 'Light') for French actor, director and choreographer Astrid Bas, who used the music's timings to film a dance video at the Joe Goode Annex in August 2014.
Dance – stage work 1 press item
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Bad Here Day
Melecio Estrella and Andrew Ward (Fog Beast)
Dance – stage work
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Bear Down
Bianca Cabrera (Blind Tiger Society), commissioned by vîv
A piece commissioned by the dance collective vîv, a fierce, femme-centered work about animal instinct and ancestry. It premiered on vîv's Savage Evening program at CounterPulse, and Ben composed the score.
Dance – stage work 1 press item
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Comb Your Here
Melecio Estrella and Andrew Ward (Fog Beast)
A song-and-dance trio for Andrew Ward, Melecio Estrella and Ben Juodvalkis that imagines 'here' as strands of perception that need combing and organizing. It premiered at YBCA's Bay Area Now festival.
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Comfort Zone
Benjamin Levy (LEVYdance), with Garance Marneur
An interactive installation in which projected particle-animation avatars form around visitors' bodies and prompt strangers to mirror, touch and dance with one another. Across eight scenes and about ten minutes, on more…
Dance – stage work 4 press items
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DanceFAR 2014 promo videos (video #1 and 'Sizzle Reel')
Jonathan Mangosing (editor, MK Impressions) for DanceFAR (co-founders Garen Scribner, James Sofranko, Margaret Karl)
Film / video score
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Earth Move
Garen Scribner · Nederlands Dans Theater (TBC)
A solo created and performed by Garen Scribner, then a dancer with Nederlands Dans Theater 1, for NDT's SWITCH Project, with original music by Ben Juodvalkis. It premiered at the Lucent Danstheater in The Hague on March…
Dance – stage work Video 1 press item
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Field of Souls (per folder notes; unconfirmed)
LeeWei Chao (probable identification of 'Lee Wei') · Oklahoma City Ballet
Dance – stage work
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For Desire (film)
Jasmine Melrose
Film / video score 1 press item
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Home Matters (video for Home Matters America)
Zara Katz and Alexandra Nikolchev
A short documentary-style video on the theme 'Redefining the American Dream' for the Home Matters campaign (homemattersamerica.com), built from interviews with people whose homes and communities shaped their lives. Ben…
Film / video score 1 press item
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In the Velvet
Liz Tenuto (Dance and a Half)
Dance – stage work
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Inside Out (film)
Casey Lee Thorne (Inside Out Contemporary Ballet)
Film / video score Video 1 press item
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Irresistibly Drawn: The Songs of Joe Goode Performance Group (program named after the song 'Irresistibly Drawn')
Joe Goode · Joe Goode Performance Group
A song-based dance-theater program ('Song Show') by Joe Goode Performance Group, presenting songs 'selected from the company's most memorable performances of the last 28 years' as a series of performance excerpts, and n…
Dance – stage work Video 2 press items
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Juliano Wade collaboration
Juliano Wade
Sketch / jam / demo
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ODC bird phrase
ODC
Class music / accompaniment
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Robert Moses — Ailey project
Robert Moses (Robert Moses' KIN) · Alvin Ailey (TBC)
A 2014 project connected to choreographer Robert Moses and Alvin Ailey. The likely candidate is 'The Pleasure of the Lesson', Moses's first work for Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, which premiered June 12, 2014 at t…
Dance – stage work 4 press items
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s(oft is)hard
Hope Mohr (Hope Mohr Dance)
A solo for Peiling Kao drawn from Hope Mohr's personal journals and her history of journaling. The movement grows from small reflexive adjustments into large rolling and diving phrases, while the score layers writing so…
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Scene in Action
Aleta Hayes · Stanford University
A site-specific dance installation by Aleta Hayes and Stanford students, moving through two museums in response to the Cantor's 'Robert Frank in America' exhibition and the Anderson Collection's mid-century art. Ben Juo…
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SOAR
Scott Marlowe (director/choreographer, LEVYdance associate director), for LEVYdance (artistic director Benjamin Levy)
An evening-length (about 50-minute), audience-participatory dance work in which spectators' choices shape what they see: they sit in the round on stage, choose 'red' or 'blue' to divide the theater with a curtain, stand…
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Status Update
Rebecca Martin (director); choreography by Melecio Estrella, Andrew Ward and Michella Snider · The Nueva School
A fully original, student-written show of linked vignettes satirizing a generation's dependence on technology. Students developed the scripts, songs, sounds and dances in a three-week conservatory with visiting professi…
Education / school residency Video 1 press item
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The Aftermath Affair
Bianca Cabrera (Blind Tiger Society)
An hour-long ensemble work for sixteen women that pairs rigorous contemporary technique with contact improvisation and unpredictable partnering, exploring the tension between individuality and community. Ben composed th…
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Travel with Purpose (TWP), Hilton
Alexandra Nikolchev (editor/producer) with Zara Katz · Hilton
Commercial / corporate
2013
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Azimuth
Alonzo King · Hubbard Street Dance Chicago
A large-ensemble work by Alonzo King created for the combined dancers of Hubbard Street Dance Chicago and Alonzo King LINES Ballet, a meditation on transcendence set to an original score by Ben Juodvalkis interwoven wit…
Dance – stage work 8 press items
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Berkeley Dance Project 2013
UC Berkeley – Theater, Dance & Performance Studies
Dance – stage work
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Failure of the Sign Is the Sign
Hope Mohr (Hope Mohr Dance)
A sextet about the moment of learning to speak as a step toward selfhood and separation from the mother. Dancers move and vocalize amid soft-sculpture organs while a voiceover of mother and daughter poetry unfolds in al…
Dance – stage work 3 press items
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Hush
Joe Goode (Joe Goode Performance Group)
A full-length dance-theater work set in a run-down bar, where six friends and co-workers deal with hidden struggles and support one member through the aftermath of violence. The script draws on real interviews, and the…
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Jonah Katz circus pieces 2013
Jonah Katz
Theater / musical / spoken word
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Keelan Whitmore pieces 2013–14
Keelan Whitmore
Dance – stage work 1 press item
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Les Twins (folder title)
Sketch / jam / demo
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LINES New York tour 2013
Alonzo King · Alonzo King LINES Ballet
Dance – stage work
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Melecio Solo ('Super Weird')
Amelia Rudolf (choreographer) for dancer Melecio Estrella · BANDALOOP
A vertical dance solo for BANDALOOP's Melecio Estrella, built by Amelia Rudolf to Ben Juodvalkis's 2013 track 'Super Weird', which Ben lengthened for the company. It premiered at Oakland City Hall during the 2015 Art &…
Dance – site-specific / aerial 2 press items
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Passages
Melecio Estrella and Andrew Ward (Fog Beast)
Dance – stage work
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Sandrine sessions (incl. Radiohead arrangement)
Sandrine Cassini (probable; former LINES Ballet instructor)
Dance – stage work
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Sent
Allison Frenzel (Nueva program coordinator), with Fog Beast (Melecio Estrella, Andrew Ward) and Ben Juodvalkis · The Nueva School
An original musical created with high-school students in Nueva School for the Performing Arts (now called Nueva School for the Arts), the arts academy at Windsor High School in Sonoma County. Fog Beast led the movement…
Education / school residency Video 1 press item
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The Fox and the Donkey
Melecio Estrella and Andrew Ward (Fog Beast)
Dance – stage work
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Wreckage
Bianca Cabrera (Blind Tiger Society)
A Blind Tiger Society piece about military influence, survival and internal conflict, told through the eyes of a soldier's daughter, with contact improvisation framed as physical combat. Ben created the music.
Dance – stage work 1 press item
2012
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[fitting] room
Stephanie Sherman · UC Berkeley – Theater, Dance & Performance Studies
A dance by Stephanie Sherman for Berkeley Dance Project 2012 about appropriation: the desire to 'fit' into another's movement vocabulary and the politics behind that desire. Original music by Ben Juodvalkis.
Dance – stage work 1 press item
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Children of Bhakti
Keelan Whitmore · LBTP (TBC)
A piece Keelan Whitmore choreographed in 2012 for students of the Alonzo King LINES Ballet Training Program in response to the killing of Trayvon Martin. Set to a commissioned score by Ben, it was a vehicle for processi…
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Constellation
Alonzo King · Alonzo King LINES Ballet
An evening-length ballet by Alonzo King, set within an LED light installation by artist Jim Campbell, with a live mezzo-soprano singing Baroque and Romantic repertoire alongside an original electronic score.
Dance – stage work 8 press items
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D. Montalvo piece
D. Montalvo, Dexandro 'D' Montalvo (probable identification)
Dance – stage work
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Lion - Night and Day
Kate Duhamel (director, Fountain 3 Films); dancers Garen Scribner and Sergio Benvindo 'BamBam' Jr.
A short dance film that evokes the stealthy elegance of lions through improvised dance by Garen Scribner and Sergio Benvindo 'BamBam' Jr. The choreography grew out of improvisation during the shoot, and Ben composed the…
Film / video score Video 4 press items
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Marin Ballet piece 2012–13
Casey Lee Thorne · Marin Ballet
Dance – stage work 2 press items
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Move Here
Melecio Estrella and Andrew Ward (Fog Beast)
Dance – stage work
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Random violin melody
Ben Juodvalkis
Sketch / jam / demo
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RED SHIFT
Aleta Hayes · Stanford University
An evening-length Chocolate Heads Movement Band piece directed by Aleta Hayes and inspired by Nobel Prize-winning research on dark matter and dark energy: part astrophysics lecture, part dance show, part poetry slam, wi…
Dance – stage work Video Audio Photos 4 press items
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Sunk in Sleep
Bianca Cabrera (Blind Tiger Society)
An evening-length Blind Tiger Society work set in the space between dreaming and waking, drawing on Alice in Wonderland, with scenes that shift between concert, nightmare, trance and tea-party imagery. The Indiegogo cam…
Dance – stage work Video Audio Photos 7 press items
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Tasha pieces (Greensleeves, Titanium)
Tasha
Dance – stage work
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When We Fall Apart
Joe Goode · Joe Goode Performance Group
A dance-theater work about the 'myth' of stability and how impermanence shows up in lives and bodies, using a house as its central metaphor. Stories gathered from audience members and the public were woven into the text…
Dance – stage work Video 4 press items
2010
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Berkeley Dance Project 2010 (Peggy Hackney)
Peggy Hackney · UC Berkeley – Theater, Dance & Performance Studies
Dance – stage work
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Graciella & Dennis piece
Graciella & Dennis
Dance – stage work
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Kat Roman works (Moonlight Sonata / Copious Dance)
Kat Roman (also known as Kat Worthington; Copious Dance Theater)
Dance – stage work
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LEVYdance early collaborations
Benjamin (Ben) Levy (LEVYdance)
Dance – stage work
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Solid Soil
Gregory Dawson
Dance – stage work
2009
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Hilary Palanza piece
Hilary Palanza
Dance – stage work
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LINES BFA student pieces 2009–2013
various (Sam, Kindall, Kelli Galdes, Khala Brannigan, Emily) · Alonzo King LINES Ballet BFA
Student / BFA work
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On the Way to the 16th St BART Station (Gospel Ballet / RISE)
Gregory Dawson
Dance – stage work
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Rozelle's piece
Rozelle
Dance – stage work
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UC Berkeley choreography class music
UC Berkeley – Theater, Dance & Performance Studies
Class music / accompaniment
2008
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Early live-looping dance class sets
Ben Juodvalkis
Class music / accompaniment
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Eclipsing Venus (title from folders)
Gregory Dawson · LINES Ballet Summer Program
Dance – stage work
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SOTA ballet (Nascent)
Gregory Dawson · SF School of the Arts (TBC)
Education / school residency
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UC Berkeley student works
various (Ari, Erica, Rosalia, Wegmuller, Jason, Kyra, Randal Belyea, Lilea, Jade Guo) · UC Berkeley – Theater, Dance & Performance Studies
Student / BFA work
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Which Light in the Sky Is Us
Gregory Dawson · Company C Contemporary Ballet (TBC)
A contemporary ballet by Gregory Dawson commissioned by Company C Contemporary Ballet, with music by Ben Juodvalkis and Moses Sedler. Its sections include 'Luminescent Shower' and 'The Seductive Glimmer', and the stagin…
Dance – stage work 4 press items