Consent as Liberation: Contact Improv Workshop w Nicole Bindler

Ticket Link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/consent-as-liberation-contact-improvisation-workshop-with-nicole-bindler-tickets-62228386780 NOTE ABOUT TICKETS: scholarship is by written request ONLY. A $40 "Support the 40th" ticket through eventbrite only gives $40 to Links Hall and will not give you a ticket to the event! Nicole Bindler, an international contact and somatic movement teacher from Philadelphia, is coming to Chicago for a special workshop centered around CI and intersectionality. In this workshop, Nicole will guide participants through a 4-hour movement class, "Matching Tone/Matching Power," and a follow-up lecture/discussion regarding the CI community, "Beyond Sex: Consent as Liberation". All levels of experience are welcome, but some level of experience in movement/ contact improvisation is strongly suggested. Cost for the workshop is $60.00. There are a limited number of scholarships available. Email [email protected] for questions and concerns. More info below! Matching Tone/Matching Power In this workshop we'll explore the idea of tone in our contact improvisation (CI) dances, using CI skills and Body-Mind Centering® (BMC®) practices. In BMC we often refer to a person’s tone as a way of describing their overall state of activity vs. rest or tension vs. release. Tone can vary from one part of the body to another, and many people who occupy a single space can embody distinct and diverse expressions of tone. In CI and BMC we often experiment with matching other people’s tone, or going under or over their tone to explore the various ways we can meet others. When we look at these principles through an embodied lens, we find a wealth of knowledge and material to use in our CI practice toward more dynamic, juicy, relational dances. When we look at these principles through a social lens, we find opportunities to explore power dynamics, and any biases we might have toward certain kinds of tone. Through a broadening of our capacity to modulate our tone, we can find avenues toward more creativity, agency, freedom, and safety in our CI dances. Beyond Sex: consent as liberation This talk offers an intersectional approach to cultivating a strong consent culture within CI spaces by addressing the ways that everyone––but particularly those who come from marginalized populations––has a need for bodily autonomy and freedom of movement. Bindler will offer sample jam guidelines that she uses to cultivate a culture of consent in the CI spaces she facilitates, and other written materials that support this work. Nicole Bindler's performance work and teaching have been presented at festivals and intensives throughout the U.S., Canada, Argentina, Europe, and in Tokyo, Beirut, Bethlehem, Mexico City, and Quito. Her dances have been supported by the Pew Center for Arts and Heritage, Leeway Foundation, Puffin Foundation, Foundation for Contemporary Arts, Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, and the Ellen Forman Memorial Award. Bindler holds a BA in Dance and Poetry from Hampshire College, a degree in Muscular Therapy from the Muscular Therapy Institute, and certificates in Embodied Anatomy Yoga, Embodied Developmental Movement and Yoga, and Practitioner of Body-Mind Centering® from the School for Body-Mind Centering®. She has been on faculty at Temple University, University of the Arts, and the University of Pennsylvania, and has guest lectured at Drexel University, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Hameline University, Arizona State University, Tempe, University of Texas, Austin, Goldsmith’s University, St Mary’s College of Maryland, Moore College of Art and Design, and Ursinus College. Her writing on dance and somatics has been published in Critical Correspondence, Contact Quarterly, Emergency Index by Ugly Duckling Presse, Jewish Currents, BMC® Currents, Curate This, Journal of Dance & Somatic Practices, Somatics Toolkit, and thINKingDANCE. She currently serves on the Earthdance Diversity and Inclusion Committee. nicolebindler.com