I would like to share these fun and inspiring workshops with you.  If interested, email me.

3 Approaches to Dance Feedback
The workshop focuses on three methods of Artist Feedback.  We will review the three methods – Fieldwork, Liz Lerman Critical Response and The Impersonation Game, and then watch a dance (work-in-progress of an artist).  Then, we give feedback to the artist in all three styles.  It was an exciting and enlightening process.

For the last four years, I have directed The Field/DC and facilitated artist feedbackworkshops.  Beyond The Field, I have a track record of facilitating and organizing workshops in Exploring Improvisation and Contemplative Dance Practice within the DC metro community.  I have also met with the other National Field Network Directors for 5 years and have gathered a lot of helpful information.  I am working on expanding the reach of The Field/DC and thinking broadly about different forms of feedback.

Contemplative Dance Practice Plus
This workshop is an introduction to the contemplative dance practice that moves us into a group improvisational structure.  Contemplative Dance Practice is a combination of sitting meditation, personal warm up and group improvisation developed by Barbara Dilley.  In this workshop, we will empty our minds of life obligations and transition into being fully present together.  Experience both an internal/personal focus and an external awareness of others.  This practice is open to anyone interested in expanding your meditation practice to movement or being more present in your dancing. All levels are welcome.  Each dancer will receive a PDF of articles and writing about contemplative dance as a reference.

Previous classes:

Fieldwork for Mixed Disciplines: Summer “Express” Session
Tuesdays, 8-9:30 July 10 – August 7
Dance Place

One Day Only:

Less Tension, More Love: A couple’s massage Workshop
Thurs, Feb. 23 6-9pm
Dance Exchange

Starting March 5th:
Spring Rep Class working with the Collapsing Silence material 
8-9:30pm, Mondays, March 5 – May 14. The showing is May 16.
Dance Place
Register here

Moving Meditation
Sundays, 11-noon (ongoing)
Joy of Motion ATLAS
$12 for seniors, students and professionals, $17 drop in

One Day Only:
Advanced Modern Dance Class
9:30-11:45am, Friday, May 11
Dance Exchange

The Fourth Annual Capital Jam
Monday MLK Day, Jan. 16, 2012
Dance Exchange
7117 Maple Avenue
Takoma Park, Maryland 20912

Cost:
$55

*Includes MLK day activities plus admission to Satellite Events

Schedule:
10-1pm Workshop with Nicole Bindler (description and bio below)
1-2:30pm Lunch (will be provided)
2:30-5:30pm Jam
5:30-6pm Closing Circle

Satellite Events:
Thursday Jan. 12, 2012: Capital Jam Improv Lab l 7-9pm l Dance Exchange
Saturday Jan.14, 2012: Sonic Circuits l 7:30pm l Bethel World Outreach Church
Sunday Jan. 15, 2012: The Improv Menu l 7-9pm l Dance Exchange

About the Workshop:
Somatic Aesthetics: Contact Improvisation and composing from within
How can we use somatic practices to inspire our artistry? How does our embodiment inform our compositional choices and aesthetic values? From what part of our nervous system do we create form and are those choices determined by innate or acquired aesthetic values? How can we integrate the skills of Contact Improvisation (the dance of the reflexes) within our solo practice and ensemble dancing towards a more gutsy, intuitive dance?

In this workshop we’ll move with facility between our inner and outer worlds. We’ll begin with a personal practice inspired by my studies of Body-Mind Centering, specifically the embodied anatomy of the nervous system. We’ll explore the nervous system in contact improvisation duets and then broaden our awareness into ensemble dancing. We’ll use the eyes as sensory organs, the sensation of our vision to inspire kinesthetic impulses. We’ll compose dances from a place of sensual, kinesthetic and proprioceptive desire as opposed to preplanned aesthetic choices. In this lab-like environment, we’ll discover when our embodied impulses create spatial harmony and when they create dissonance. Most importantly, we’ll dance together in the spontaneous community that forms among participants.

Movers of all levels and backgrounds are welcome to participate. Only a willingness to improvise, work in contact with others and ask questions is required.

Nicole Bindler is a body-based performing artist, inspired by her studies of new dance, dance-theater, contact improvisation, and butoh. She is also a bodyworker and uses somatic practices, such as Body-Mind Centering, Yoga and Feldenkrais as a source of creativity, inspiration and physical training. Her work has been shown throughout the U.S., Canada, Argentina, Berlin, Tokyo, Beirut and Quito, Ecuador. She has taught Somatics for dancers at the University of the Arts; Therapeutic Bodywork at the Massage Arts Center of Philadelphia; Anatomy for Yoga Alliance certified Yoga Teacher Trainings throughout Philadelphia; many workshops in Contact Improvisation, Yoga and Experiential Anatomy throughout the U.S., Argentina and at International Contact Festival Freiburg, Germany. Recent activities include co-organizing the FALLS BRIDGE: new movement, improvisation and performance festival with Curt Haworth; participating in Deborah Hay’s Solo Performance Commissioning Project in Findhorn Scotland; Co-creating “I made this for you.” (2011 finalist for the A.W.A.R.D. Show!) with Gabrielle Revlock. http://www.nicolebindler.com/

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