VaBanG! was co-founded by Jessie Feller and Julia Sabangan in 2007.
After years of pre-professional training, the two performed together
for three years on stages in Manhattan and in the Hudson Valley with
Vassar Repertory Dance Theatre.
Vabang! is an original bi-coastal dance collaboration. Vabang! brings
bold movement and musical ideas together from five continents, and
situates them onto stages on both coasts. Feller is based in San
Francisco while Sabangan is based in New York City.
Vabang! exists to transcend boundaries and conventional categories.
Vabang! shapes new concepts of “space” (social, conceptual,
geographical), and bridges various spaces, be they natural or socially
constructed. Through intensely athletic movement, Vabang! provokes
audiences to question their path dependent thinking on current social
and geo-political issues such as feminism, transnationalism, and
climate change.
Vabang! performances and events create “third spaces,” fostering
creative interaction and civic engagement with the arts and politics.
Vabang! provides a starting point to break down constructed spaces,
creating new spatial interactions on stage and in the minds of the
audience.
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Claim Your Space.