Tender Attention to the Wild Unknown (a showing)

Tender Attention to the Wild Unknown:
A Journey from Sensation to Improvisation and Voice

An informal showing with Skye Hughes, Nicole Bindler, and participants from the 3-day Body-Mind Centering and Action Theater workshop

April 16th, 8:00 PM
Free

Join participants in the Tender Attention to the Wild Unknown workshop as they share what they created through a three-day excursion into the techniques of Body-Mind Centering and Action Theater. (And if you're reading this before April 14, you can still sign up for those workshops here!)

Skye Hughes is a multidisciplinary, body-based performance artist. Her artistic practice is driven by the desire to investigate information war, identity politics, oppression, and the climate crisis — how these phenomena are inscribed upon the body, and how that inscription shapes our inner life and how we relate to the external world and each other. Skye majored in dance at Interlochen Arts Academy in Michigan; holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in dance from the University of Colorado, where she studied with Michelle Ellsworth, Erika Randall, Gesel Mason, and Rennie Harris; and is an alum of Headlong Performance Institute in Philadelphia, PA, under the direction of David Brick. She has also worked as assistant to Ed Bowes on four feature-length films. She is an Action Theater teacher, and studied with Ruth Zaporah over a decade. Skye uses the Action Theater method to deconstruct and integrate improvisation skills with fellow performers, students, and teachers. skyehughes.wtf

Nicole Bindler–dance-maker, Body-Mind Centering® practitioner, writer, and activist–has practiced contact improvisation since 1997. 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. 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. She is co-editing a book, Gathering Sparks: Jewish Arts and Somatics that will be published by punctum books. nicolebindler.com