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Nicole Bindler
Nicole Bindler is a body-based performing artist whose work is inspired by her training in new dance, dance-theatre, Contact Improvisation, Butoh, Body-Mind Centering®, Yoga and Feldenkrais. Her choreography has been shown throughout the United States, Canada, Argentina, and in Berlin, Tokyo, Beirut, Bethlehem, Mexico City and Quito. Her work has been supported by the Leeway Foundation, the Puffin Foundation, Foundation for Contemporary Arts, Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, the Ellen Foreman Memorial Award, Philadelphia Dance Projects, the Community Education Center, FringeArts and the Pew Center for Arts and Heritage. 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 is certified by the National Certification Board for Therapeutic Massage and Bodywork, a registered Somatic Movement Therapist through the International Somatic Movement Education and Therapy Association, and a member of the Body-Mind Centering Association. She has taught somatics and improvisation in the dance and theatre departments at University of Pennsylvania, Temple University, Drexel University and University of the Arts. Bindler is a member of the Jewish Voice for Peace Artist Council, writes for thINKingDANCE, and is the founder and director of The Institute for Somatics and Social Justice.