Search
Robert Bingham
Robert Bingham, MFA, Ph.D., lives in Philadelphia, where he teaches dance at Temple University and elsewhere. For over twenty years, he has been a professional dance artist, scholar and educator whose choreography has been presented throughout North America. He is a Fulbright Scholar Award recipient (Berlin, 2013) and was a visiting artist in dance at Alfred University (2005–12). Robert has extensive training in somatic modalities, which inform his dancing, teaching and writing. He is a certified yoga instructor (Integral Yoga Institute, 1996) and registered somatic movement therapist/educator (Eastwest Somatics Institute, 2003). He studied with butoh artist Diego Piñon in the United States and in Mexico. His chapters on dance, somatics and ecology appear in Back to the Dance Itself: Phenomenologies of the Body in Performance (University of Illinois Press, in press), Moving Consciously (University of Illinois Press, 2015), Dance and the Quality of Life (Springer, 2018) and Oxford Handbook of Improvisation (2018). Robert has been a presenter at arts conferences in the United States, United Kingdom, Mexico and Germany.