Friday: The Case for Invagination #3

[Nicole Bindler]

Dear all, I'm writing to invite you to my one-night-only solo that includes improvised dance, clowning, and monologues performed by my belly button and scars who ask big questions about consent, trauma, and existential loneliness... 

The Case for Invagination #3

Friday, September 17th, 7pm at The MAAS Building Studio

Created and performed by Nicole Bindler
Directed by Mark Kennedy
Music by Dustin Slaughter

Presented by Cannonball

Read more about the piece here

The dance material arose out of my contact improvisation practice and the concept stems from my Body-Mind Centering® research on the embryology of the genitalia from a nonbinary perspective. 

The Case for Invagination #3 addresses one particular aspect of that somatic material, the practice of allowing space/situations/people to invite us in, rather than injecting ourselves into spaces. This practice has social and political implications around embodying consent culture and as an antidote to the ways many of us have internalized capitalism and colonialism.

An invagination is a fold, a concavity, a feminist reimagining of space, not necessarily correlated with the anatomical vagina. 

Why invaginate?? 

1) Feels good. 

2) Try something new? 

3) Your cells will love it! 

4) Intussuscept the patriarchy.

This show is for vaccinated audiences and masks are required. Tickets are $15-25 and about half of them have already been reserved, so if you're interested in coming I recommend you purchase tickets in advance.

Hope to see you there!

-Nicole