Contact Improv Sundays @ WildHeart

Contact Improv Sundays @ WildHeart

 Facilitator: Nicole Bindler

First and Third Sundays

4:00-6:30pm (2nd and 4th Sundays in Kingston!)

BYO dinner for a studio-floor picnic afterward

CI Lab 4-5pm (with rotating teachers)

Open Jam 5-6:30pm

Register in advance

Class Description:

CI and Attunement: consent as an embodied practice

In this class we will practice our CI communication skills with an emphasis on identifying and going for what we want in our dances while finding common interests with our partners by dialing up our listening. We will cultivate curiosity about our partners, and approach consent as a playful, embodied practice. We will attune to ourselves, our partner, and the ensemble by enlivening our senses and clarifying our perceptual awareness.

Bio:

Nicole Bindler is a dance-maker, writer, activist, and Body-Mind Centering® practitioner and Yoga teacher. She is a Registered Master Somatic Movement Therapist with the International Somatic Movement Education and Therapy Association. Her teaching and performance work has been presented at festivals and intensives on four continents. Conference presentations include The Future of CI Conference, Body-Mind Centering Association Conferences, International Conference on Disability Studies, Arts & Education, Conney Conference on Jewish Arts, Women in Dance Leadership Conference, Jews and Jewishness in the Dance World Conference, Bodily Undoing Symposium, and the Dance Studies Association Conference where she was a conference fellow. Recent projects include curating an evening of Palestinian dance films; co-producing the Consent Culture in CI Symposium at Earthdance; somatic research on the embryology of the genitalia from a non-binary perspective; and a solo dance, The Case for Invagination, in which her scars speak candidly about trauma and desire. Her writing on dance, somatics, and politics has been published in numerous journals, and she will be included in the forthcoming Embryo Book Project. She is collaborating with Kristen Smiarowski and Ben Spatz on a new book, Gathering Sparks: Jewish Arts and Somatics that will be published by punctum books. She is currently enrolled in the Polestar Pilates Teacher Training.

Or if you prefer to pay cash at the door, send us an email to let us know you’re coming, so we can help you find your way to the studio.

Overnight guests welcome (with advance notice). Let us know if you want to make a longer visit to WildHeart… email contact@wildheartcenter.art

 

Weeks that we’re not Jamming @ WildHeart, Hudson Valley Contact Improv continues in Kingston. Email Hudsonvalleycontactimprov@gmail.com for more on the Kingston Jam

Location- This workshop will take place in the Barn. If you’re coming to WildHeart for the first time, please visit our Directions page for arrival info.

Refund policy

• No refunds, no transfers