"[3][4] Rudolph attended University of California, Berkeley, where she studied contact improvisation dance and had also recently begun rock climbing.
[5] The development of the Grigri in the early 1990s, and its ability to control and limit a climber's fall distance,[6] made it possible for dancers to move their hands freely while in climbing harnesses.
Locations include rock faces in the Sierra Nevada Mountains,[7] the Space Needle in Seattle, Washington, a decommissioned crane in Kirkenes, Norway, the Vasco da Gama Tower in Lisbon, Portugal, and the fortified citadel of Golconda in Hyderabad, India.
[8] Instead of starting with a performance site, the company will often scout areas with a high amount of pedestrian traffic to find a potential audience.
[9] In the same year, Bandaloop collaborated with GoPro to release a short film about the dance company's 2017 performance at the Café Budapest Contemporary Arts Festival.