The Dance Apocalypse

Nicole Bindler is a body-based performing artist whose work is inspired by her training in new dance, dance-theater, Contact Improvisation, Butoh, Body-Mind Centering®, Yoga, and Feldenkrais. Her dances have been shown throughout the U.S., Canada, Argentina, and in Berlin, Tokyo, Beirut, Bethlehem, Mexico City, and Quito. Her work has been supported by the Ellen Foreman Memorial Award, Leeway Foundation, Puffin Foundation, Foundation for Contemporary Arts, Pennsylvania Council on the Arts (through Pennsylvania Partners in the Arts), Philadelphia Dance Projects, Mascher Space Cooperative, the Community Education Center, FringeArts and the Pew Center for Arts and Heritage. Her piece "I made this for you”, created in collaboration with Gabrielle Revlock, was a 2011 finalist for the A.W.A.R.D. Show! She has taught dance, somatics, and contact improvisation throughout the U.S., Argentina, and at Contact Festival Freiburg, Germany. Locally, She has taught at University of Pennsylvania, University of the Arts, Temple University, the Massage Arts Center in Philadelphia, and several Yoga Alliance Certified Yoga teacher trainings. Her dance writing has been published in Critical Correspondence, Contact Quarterly, "Emergency Index" by Ugly Duckling Presse, the Susan Rethorst Inquiring Mind/Choreographic Mind project, Curate This, Jewish Currents, and the BMC® Journal, Currents. Bindler is also thrilled to be a writer at thINKingDANCE. She participated in Deborah Hay's 2011 Solo Performance Commissioning Project where she learned the dance "I Think Not". She collaborates promiscuously with experimental musicians and composers. www.nicolebindler.com