Damara Vita Ganley

Dancer

Damara Vita Ganley cultivated her love for both dance and nature growing up in rural Mendocino County. She graduated from UC Santa Cruz with degrees in Anthropology, Women's Studies and Theater Arts. After graduating, Damara was honored to dance for her mentor in The Mel Wong Dance Company. She has also enjoyed performing with Bay Area companies and artists such as EmSpace Dance, Ellen Webb, Jo Kreiter/FlyAway Productions, Kate Mitchell, Lisa Townsend, Nancy Karp, Nina Haft, RAW dance and Shift Physical Theatre.

Damara is enthusiastic about gardening, ecology and spending time with family and friends. She is very excited to be dancing with Project Bandaloop.

Cranes in Mumbai

March 8, 2010
From Vancouver where I am working with Julia Taffe's Aeriosa dance company on the public library, I want to say a word about Mumbai. Our Whirlwind trip there was fantastic and we put together a show on the Maker Maxity buildings and on two cranes for an event March 6th. The dancers rallied from the couch to perform amazingly in three separate pieces. During rehearsals on the cranes, a couple of women construction workers in bright saris with their two tiny daughters on hand, grew big smiles seeing their American sisters show such courage and beauty. Between wonderful aromatic meals and walks on the Juhu beach, the company worked hard to make our first Mumbai show fantastic. All in a weeks work.

– Amelia