Contact Improvisation – releasing through touch with Nicole Bindler (USA)

Sunday Nov. 30th
13:00 – 17:30 class
Dinner break
19:00 – JAM      FREE/Donation-based

at BAZA – space for choreographic research
ul. Aleksander Paskalev #4 , Bitov Kombinat
Mladost 4, Sofia, Bulgaria

40лв./20 Euro to  120лв/60 Euro – Sliding-scale payment for workshop.

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Description:

This workshop will explore the fascial system through the practice of Contact Improvisation. Deepening into the fascial system offers opportunities in partner dancing for more of a sense of continuity, weight modulation, and effortlessness in and out of the floor. We will experiment with the principles and qualities of fascia, celebrate the connectivity in our bodies, and unwind myofascial tension and scar tissue. Most of us have some scar tissue in our bodies from old injuries, surgeries, or chronic holding patterns. These patterns show up in our dancing as sticky spots, places where movement can’t travel directly through. In this workshop, we will embrace our body-histories, imperfections, and idiosyncrasies; learn from the knowledge our bodies hold; and become better acquainted with ourselves and each other through moving together.

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Biography:

Nicole Bindler–dance-maker, Body-Mind Centering® practitioner, writer, and activist–has practiced contact improvisation since 1997. She is a registered Master Somatic Movement Therapist through The International Somatic Movement Education and Therapy Association. Her work has been supported by numerous grants and fellowships, and presented on four continents. Recent projects include curating an evening of Palestinian dance films; somatic research on the embryology of the genitalia from a non-binary perspective; a workshop on neuroqueering embodiment; co-producing the Consent Culture in Contact Improvisation Symposium at Earthdance; and a solo dance, The Case for Invagination, in which her scars speak candidly about trauma and desire. Notable performance projects have included touring as a choreographer with the Bethlehem-Based Palestinian company, Diyar Theatre; a Pew-funded performance residency in Japan, including Butoh training with Yoshito Ohno; and performing Deborah Hay’s I Think Not at Unidad De Vinculación Artística in Mexico City. In 2026, she will be restaging her ensemble work, Blood, Sea, at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. She is co-editing a book, Gathering Sparks: Jewish Arts and Somatics, that will be published by punctum books.

www.nicolebindler.com