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Embodying Palestine Solidarity

A lecture and conversation with Nicole Bindler about the movement for Palestinian liberation within the dance field

September 13th, 3:30pm at Asian Arts Initiative

Presented by Cannonball and co-sponsored by Jewish Voice for Peace-Philadelphia and Contact Improv Philly

FREE EVENT!

Donations accepted at the door toward Palestinian solidarity funds

This talk offers a brief history of Palestinian dance; information about the impacts of the apartheid on Palestinian dancers; and examples of contemporary dance practices supporting the movement for Palestinian liberation. This event is for performance-makers and theater-goers who want to learn more about how they can support Palestinian human rights.

DANCE DANCE FOR LIBERATION: Community Teach-In on Organizing and PACBI with Dancers for Palestine

Free event!

March 8th, 12:00pm - 2:30pm

Studio 34, 4522 Baltimore Avenue in West Philly

Members of the Dancers for Palestine Lead Organizing Team will share our organizing strategy, successes and challenges in organizing the dance field, and the role of arts and culture in the movement for Palestinian Liberation. We will talk about our attempts to move the dance field into more significant, material solidarity with Palestine through the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI). We will address the dance field’s specific histories and dynamics when it comes to organizing, as well as what dance can teach us about organizing within any discipline or community. We’ll answer questions and brainstorm with attendees about their specific struggles and curiosities, including Philadelphia-specific organizing tactics and potential targets for PACBI campaigns.

Link in bio for more details and registration!

Jewish organizers with Dancers for Palestine support the Dance Studies Association’s (DSA) inclusion of the panel Undoing Colonial Ambiguity: Keywords in Dance and Dancewashing in Palestine-Israel at their 2024 conference in Buenos Aires. Text version of the full statement linked in our bio.

Jewish organizers with Dancers for Palestine support the Dance Studies Association’s (DSA) inclusion of the panel Undoing Colonial Ambiguity: Keywords in Dance and Dancewashing in Palestine-Israel at their 2024 conference in Buenos Aires. Text version of the full statement linked in our bio.

Jewish organizers with Dancers for Palestine support the Dance Studies Association’s (DSA) inclusion of the panel Undoing Colonial Ambiguity: Keywords in Dance and Dancewashing in Palestine-Israel at their 2024 conference in Buenos Aires. Text version of the full statement linked in our bio.

Jewish organizers with Dancers for Palestine support the Dance Studies Association’s (DSA) inclusion of the panel Undoing Colonial Ambiguity: Keywords in Dance and Dancewashing in Palestine-Israel at their 2024 conference in Buenos Aires. Text version of the full statement linked in our bio.

Jewish organizers with Dancers for Palestine support the Dance Studies Association’s (DSA) inclusion of the panel Undoing Colonial Ambiguity: Keywords in Dance and Dancewashing in Palestine-Israel at their 2024 conference in Buenos Aires. Text version of the full statement linked in our bio.

Jewish organizers with Dancers for Palestine support the Dance Studies Association’s (DSA) inclusion of the panel Undoing Colonial Ambiguity: Keywords in Dance and Dancewashing in Palestine-Israel at their 2024 conference in Buenos Aires. Text version of the full statement linked in our bio.

Jewish organizers with Dancers for Palestine support the Dance Studies Association’s (DSA) inclusion of the panel Undoing Colonial Ambiguity: Keywords in Dance and Dancewashing in Palestine-Israel at their 2024 conference in Buenos Aires. Text version of the full statement linked in our bio.

Jewish organizers with Dancers for Palestine support the Dance Studies Association’s (DSA) inclusion of the panel Undoing Colonial Ambiguity: Keywords in Dance and Dancewashing in Palestine-Israel at their 2024 conference in Buenos Aires. Text version of the full statement linked in our bio.

Jewish organizers with Dancers for Palestine support the Dance Studies Association’s (DSA) inclusion of the panel Undoing Colonial Ambiguity: Keywords in Dance and Dancewashing in Palestine-Israel at their 2024 conference in Buenos Aires. Text version of the full statement linked in our bio.

Jewish organizers with Dancers for Palestine support the Dance Studies Association’s (DSA) inclusion of the panel Undoing Colonial Ambiguity: Keywords in Dance and Dancewashing in Palestine-Israel at their 2024 conference in Buenos Aires. Text version of the full statement linked in our bio.

I’ve been feeding this angel fluff on my porch. She’s an old soul and a baby boy. They have been snuggling me and staring longingly into my house. Most neighborhood cats take a snack and skedaddle, but this one hangs out for hours. He greets my guests on the front steps as if she’s the mayor.

Her ear is clipped so I assume he’s fixed and vaccinated, but I would be happy to contribute financially and logistically to get them to a vet and acclimated into your home. I am allergic, but otherwise would adopt this tiny cow in a heartbeat. They are a poet, philosopher, and clown. I am truly in love. She insists I watch him eat their kibble, looking back at me to make sure I’m paying attention, and will take food breaks to head butt me for ear scritches. The other day I saw him sitting in my garden smelling flowers and booping each of them with her little nose. 

Please consider adopting this cupcake or spreading the word.

📸 @katdaddy87_

#babykitty #adoptacat #lovebug

I’ve been feeding this angel fluff on my porch. She’s an old soul and a baby boy. They have been snuggling me and staring longingly into my house. Most neighborhood cats take a snack and skedaddle, but this one hangs out for hours. He greets my guests on the front steps as if she’s the mayor.

Her ear is clipped so I assume he’s fixed and vaccinated, but I would be happy to contribute financially and logistically to get them to a vet and acclimated into your home. I am allergic, but otherwise would adopt this tiny cow in a heartbeat. They are a poet, philosopher, and clown. I am truly in love. She insists I watch him eat their kibble, looking back at me to make sure I’m paying attention, and will take food breaks to head butt me for ear scritches. The other day I saw him sitting in my garden smelling flowers and booping each of them with her little nose. 

Please consider adopting this cupcake or spreading the word.

📸 @katdaddy87_

#babykitty #adoptacat #lovebug

Wednesday Night Dance Improvisation Performance Practice with Rotating Teachers
Nicole Bindler leads Wednesday, May 6, 2026 6:30-8:30pm
at Headlong/Mascher Space, 1170 S. Broad St. Philadelphia, PA 19146
@mascher.space @nicole_bindler

Harnessing our voice and hearing in dance improvisation
Through a deep embryonic and functional connection between our voice and hearing, we will explore the relationship between how we express ourselves and how we listen. The pharyngeal arches are embryonic pouches that form at about four weeks of gestation in the head and neck. In fish they become gills. In humans they become structures in the ears, jaw, and throat that contribute to our auditory and vocal apparatus. Come prepared to move, vocalize, play, and experiment together.

Nicole Bindler is a dance-maker, Body-Mind Centering® practitioner, 500 hr yoga teacher, Polestar Pilates practitioner, myofascial bodyworker, writer, and activist. She has practiced contact improvisation since 1997, and she is a registered Master Somatic Movement Therapist through The International Somatic Movement Education and Therapy Association. 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. 

$5-25 sliding scale ($15 suggested), cash or Venmo, NOTAFLOF
Pre-registration NOT required
Please ring the "Rear Studio" buzzer to be let into the building
Mask optional

#improvisation #Phillydance #dance #ImprovisationPerformancePractice #WNDI

No class tonight, but Wednesday Night Dance Improvisation Performance Practice continues at @mascher.space  at 1170 S. Broad St. Wednesdays 6:30-8:30pm.

Announcing teachers for May 2026:

6: Nicole Bindler @nicole_bindler
13: Curt Haworth @chaworthdance
20: Shannon Murphy @shannonmurphydance
27: Kayliani Sood @kayliani_sood

We will continue weekly through June 24. More of Summer 2026 and beyond TBD.

This weekly class series, Wednesday Night Dance Improvisation Performance Practice, is a gathering of artists from a variety of compositional improvisation branches that delves into improvisation making, training for performance, composing in real-time, body-based spontaneous ensembles, and more. A thorough warm up will be offered that will ready the participants to dance fully. The body of the class will be a deep dive into the improvisational research of the teacher. It may include solo explorations, group scores, forms such as Contact Improvisation, Authentic Movement, and even Site-specific work. The class will seek to develop as an ensemble, moving and sounding while balancing attention between self-material and the whole.

$5-25 sliding scale ($15 suggested), NOTAFLOF, cash or Venmo at door
Pre-registration NOT required
Please ring the "Rear Studio" buzzer to be let into the building
Mask optional

#improvisation #Phillydance #dance #ImprovisationPerformancePractice

Contact Improvisation Research Labs w/ @nicole_bindler

🗓️ Every Thursday in May, 7-9pm
📍1170 S. Broad St.—ring “rear studio” to enter
👾 All levels of experience are welcome
💸 Suggested price for our events = $15, though we offer a sliding scale of $10-$20. Please pay cash or Venmo ([at]derek-freeh) at the door
😷 Please note that May 7 is mask required. May 14, 21 & 28 are mask optional.

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In these May Thursday classes Nicole will spontaneously develop CI activities based on questions that participants bring. We’ll use Body-Mind Centering practices, improvisation scores, and classic CI exercises to support our research. Bring whatever you’re chewing on and we’ll work it out!

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Nicole Bindler is a dance-maker, Body-Mind Centering® practitioner, 500 hr yoga teacher, Polestar Pilates practitioner, myofascial bodyworker, writer, and activist. She has practiced contact improvisation since 1997, and 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.

Movement + Voice = Tender Attention to the Wild Unknown, three daytime workshops with Skye Hughes (Seattle) and Nicole Bindler (Philly) on April 14+15+16, 10AM–1PM. Come to any or all. RSVP and details at studio34yoga.com/art-events

#phillydanceclass #phillyvoicecoach #bodymindcentering #somatics #phillymovement

Please join me and Skye Hughes for an improvisation workshop at Studio 34 Yoga | Healing | Arts!

We're co-teaching three days of Body-Mind Centering and Action Theater April 14-16, 10am-1pm. Drop-ins welcome or take all three! We’ll have a workshop showing on the 16th at 8pm.

We're also offering a full-day workshop at WildHeart: Center for Performance and Embodiment Practice on Saturday, April 18th.

Links in bio for details about both workshops!

The workshops will begin with a Body-Mind Centering warm up that will heighten participants’ senses and prepare them for rigorous use of their body and voice in Action Theater. We’ll explore our kinesthetic senses, and our auditory, visual, and vocal systems. The second half of the workshop will invite participants to continue on the path from sensation to perception, and further out into the imagination—following this awareness to its wildest, most expressive states. Together, we will create a nurturing environment to move through any blockages that may inhibit vocal expression, fostering greater confidence, creativity, and freedom in both movement and speech. Through the intelligence of these complementary forms of improvisation, feeling, images, and ideas are embodied, lived, and amplified into movement, vocalization, and words—where even the subtlest sensation can blossom into a new, astonishing world.

#actiontheater #bodymindcentering #improvisedperformance

Please join me and Skye Hughes for an improvisation workshop at Studio 34 Yoga | Healing | Arts!

We're co-teaching three days of Body-Mind Centering and Action Theater April 14-16, 10am-1pm. Drop-ins welcome or take all three! We’ll have a workshop showing on the 16th at 8pm.

We're also offering a full-day workshop at WildHeart: Center for Performance and Embodiment Practice on Saturday, April 18th.

Links in bio for details about both workshops!

The workshops will begin with a Body-Mind Centering warm up that will heighten participants’ senses and prepare them for rigorous use of their body and voice in Action Theater. We’ll explore our kinesthetic senses, and our auditory, visual, and vocal systems. The second half of the workshop will invite participants to continue on the path from sensation to perception, and further out into the imagination—following this awareness to its wildest, most expressive states. Together, we will create a nurturing environment to move through any blockages that may inhibit vocal expression, fostering greater confidence, creativity, and freedom in both movement and speech. Through the intelligence of these complementary forms of improvisation, feeling, images, and ideas are embodied, lived, and amplified into movement, vocalization, and words—where even the subtlest sensation can blossom into a new, astonishing world.

#actiontheater #bodymindcentering #improvisedperformance

Please join me and Skye Hughes for an improvisation workshop at Studio 34 Yoga | Healing | Arts!

We're co-teaching three days of Body-Mind Centering and Action Theater April 14-16, 10am-1pm. Drop-ins welcome or take all three! We’ll have a workshop showing on the 16th at 8pm.

We're also offering a full-day workshop at WildHeart: Center for Performance and Embodiment Practice on Saturday, April 18th.

Links in bio for details about both workshops!

The workshops will begin with a Body-Mind Centering warm up that will heighten participants’ senses and prepare them for rigorous use of their body and voice in Action Theater. We’ll explore our kinesthetic senses, and our auditory, visual, and vocal systems. The second half of the workshop will invite participants to continue on the path from sensation to perception, and further out into the imagination—following this awareness to its wildest, most expressive states. Together, we will create a nurturing environment to move through any blockages that may inhibit vocal expression, fostering greater confidence, creativity, and freedom in both movement and speech. Through the intelligence of these complementary forms of improvisation, feeling, images, and ideas are embodied, lived, and amplified into movement, vocalization, and words—where even the subtlest sensation can blossom into a new, astonishing world.

#actiontheater #bodymindcentering #improvisedperformance

Please join me and Skye Hughes for an improvisation workshop at Studio 34 Yoga | Healing | Arts!

We're co-teaching three days of Body-Mind Centering and Action Theater April 14-16, 10am-1pm. Drop-ins welcome or take all three! We’ll have a workshop showing on the 16th at 8pm.

We're also offering a full-day workshop at WildHeart: Center for Performance and Embodiment Practice on Saturday, April 18th.

Links in bio for details about both workshops!

The workshops will begin with a Body-Mind Centering warm up that will heighten participants’ senses and prepare them for rigorous use of their body and voice in Action Theater. We’ll explore our kinesthetic senses, and our auditory, visual, and vocal systems. The second half of the workshop will invite participants to continue on the path from sensation to perception, and further out into the imagination—following this awareness to its wildest, most expressive states. Together, we will create a nurturing environment to move through any blockages that may inhibit vocal expression, fostering greater confidence, creativity, and freedom in both movement and speech. Through the intelligence of these complementary forms of improvisation, feeling, images, and ideas are embodied, lived, and amplified into movement, vocalization, and words—where even the subtlest sensation can blossom into a new, astonishing world.

#actiontheater #bodymindcentering #improvisedperformance

I’m thrilled to announce my new offering: Therapeutic Pilates for injury recovery and prevention!

~ Alleviate chronic pain and tension
~ Increase your strength, endurance, and range of motion
~ Hone your intuition and capacity for self care
~ Feel better in your body!

~ Body-positive, queer & trans-affirming space
~ Wheelchair accessible!

I’ll be offering private sessions @springhaus_pilates and teaching group classes on Fridays @brewerytownpilates

About me: Nicole Bindler has been a licensed massage therapist since 2002 and a movement educator since 2003. She holds certifications as a Polestar Pilates practitioner; Body-Mind Centering® practitioner; 500 hour yoga teacher from the School for Body-Mind Centering; Muscular Therapist from the Muscular Therapy Institute; Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapist from the Lyons Institute; and she is a registered Master Somatic Movement Therapist with the International Somatic Movement Education and Therapy Association.

Postcard design by @mirandacohenmakes

I’m thrilled to announce my new offering: Therapeutic Pilates for injury recovery and prevention!

~ Alleviate chronic pain and tension
~ Increase your strength, endurance, and range of motion
~ Hone your intuition and capacity for self care
~ Feel better in your body!

~ Body-positive, queer & trans-affirming space
~ Wheelchair accessible!

I’ll be offering private sessions @springhaus_pilates and teaching group classes on Fridays @brewerytownpilates

About me: Nicole Bindler has been a licensed massage therapist since 2002 and a movement educator since 2003. She holds certifications as a Polestar Pilates practitioner; Body-Mind Centering® practitioner; 500 hour yoga teacher from the School for Body-Mind Centering; Muscular Therapist from the Muscular Therapy Institute; Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapist from the Lyons Institute; and she is a registered Master Somatic Movement Therapist with the International Somatic Movement Education and Therapy Association.

Postcard design by @mirandacohenmakes

Thank you @slaughterhouselive for recording my set and also being the topic of most of my jokes.

#chokingprevention #boyfriend #adhd

“Blood, Sea” at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. 📸 Albert Yee

“Blood, Sea” at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. 📸 Albert Yee

“Blood, Sea” at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. 📸 Albert Yee

“Blood, Sea” at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. 📸 Albert Yee

“Blood, Sea” at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. 📸 Albert Yee

“Blood, Sea” at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. 📸 Albert Yee

“Blood, Sea” at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. 📸 Albert Yee

“Blood, Sea” at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. 📸 Albert Yee