A dancer since childhood, Rudolph entered Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania where there was a strong dance program. "The dance floor is turned sideways," said Rudolph who grew up in Chicago, the daughter of political science professors at the University of Chicago. That means they are able to adapt performances to unusual venues: sides of sky scrapers, mountain sides, on historic buildings, billboards and occasionally, indoors. Though there have been comparisons with Cirque du Soleil, she said Bandaloop is on a much smaller scale, with more hands-on choreography development. Rudolph founded the Oakland, Calif.-based company in 1991. While most performers invited there create their magic on its grand stage, Bandaloop takes the action outdoors, on exterior walls where seven dancers suspended by cables and a harness dance along the walls in perfectly choreographed movement. "The genesis was combining the two worlds of climbing and dancing," said the founder of Bandaloop, a vertical dance performance company making its Waterloo Region debut at Centre in the Square's opening party on Sept. It was 1989 and Rudolf had "fallen in love with the experience of climbing." But she was also a trained dancer and suddenly wondered about the possibility of dancing on a cliff. KITCHENER - Amelia Rudolf's epiphany came on the side of a mountain.
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