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Nicole Bindler

Archiving Occupation, Identity and Resistance

Divorced from context, Zaides's movements make the very consequential gestures of settlers, police and army seem mundane.
March 10, 2016
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Women

Nicole Bindler reports on her experience setting work on the dancers of Diyar Dance Theater, a Dabke company in the occupied West Bank in Palestine.
October 9, 2015
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Greg the Creature, the Human

Greg performs 2,000 individual, unrepeated movements for one hour. But what is one movement anyway?
September 18, 2015
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Hadar Ahuvia and Jesse Zaritt: Jewish-American Choreographers Grapple with Zionism and the Nakba

"...I am seeking ancestral healing and liberation for all."
June 15, 2015
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Black Girl

During this evening of three dances with a mixed gender company, Brown decides to devote one of the pieces to the six women.
December 11, 2014
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Palestinian Dabke Makes it to the Annenberg

A woman shouts “Come dance Dabke for justice!” to protest the Kibbutz Contemporary Dance Company's Philadelphia appearance.
November 25, 2014
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Luscious Sadness

The juxtaposition of the frightening terrorist soundtrack with the dancers' robust and alluring bodies is strange and haunting.
November 24, 2014
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Ugly Numbers Part III: The Dance Apocalypse

The final installment of Ugly Numbers, a three-part investigation on gender inequity in contemporary American dance.
October 20, 2014
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