Project Bandaloop‘s mission is to bring the genre of vertical dance to the whole world. You may well ask “Isn’t most dance vertical?” The answer is yes, but not THIS vertical. Also known as aerial dance , it’s an amazingly athletic art form, and not for the faint of heart. Bandaloop’s dancers perform on the sides of skyscrapers, billboards, atop mountains, hanging from cliffs, and dangling from bridges and (very) vertical landmarks, both man-made and natural. Suspended from a single line, dancers have to have nerves of steel (and a lot of faith in their rope).

“They say what we do is death-defying. I’d say it’s life-affirming.” – Amelia Rudolph, Founder/Artistic Director

The organization has been around for 25 years and is understandably one of the darlings of the fringe festival circuit. I suggest you watch the videos below full screen on a screen larger than your phone to get the full effect.

You can even bring a group to their studio in Oakland, California, for a day of training, teambuilding, and vertical movement. Now that’s a teambuilding exercise I could really get into!