Femme Fest 2020 (A Shared Bill) Nicole Bindler & C.Bain
Nicole Bindler
The Case for Invagination
In this second version of the work, Nicole Bindler deepens her investigation of a monologue that she created for her knee scar, which now dialogues with her more recently acquired neck scar and her belly button about the meaning of life, and questions about whether they are invaginations (nouns) or if they have been invaginated (verb).
Nicole Bindler‘s performance work and teaching have been presented at festivals and intensives throughout the U.S., Canada, Argentina, Europe, and in Tokyo, Beirut, Bethlehem, Mexico City, and Quito. Her dances have been supported by the Pew Center for Arts and Heritage, Leeway Foundation, Puffin Foundation, Foundation for Contemporary Arts, Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, and the Ellen Forman Memorial Award. Her writing has been published in Critical Correspondence, Contact Quarterly, Emergency Index, Jewish Currents, BMC® Currents, Curate This, Journal of Dance & Somatic Practices, Somatics Toolkit, AJS Perspectives, and thINKingDANCE.
Nadia Botello is an artist, composer, and engineer based in San Antonio, TX. Her work has been exhibited and performed at MATA Festival, Nameless Sound, Clocktower, Fairmount Water Works, Flux Factory, Icebox Project Space, the Rail Park, the Arthur Ross Gallery, and James Turrell’s Skyspace Gathered Leading, among other venues. She’s lectured and developed workshops at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Johns Hopkins University (MA), the University of Pennsylvania (MFA/PhD), and Columbia University (MFA). She has self-released two full-length albums — Saint Shë: Ska jag berätta en hemlighet? and Emerald Rd.
C. Bain
MEAT///INJECTION
Who am I when there’s something else inside me. How do I transform what I receive. MEAT///INJECTION is a reclamation of desire and agency in the face of violence and medicalization of queer bodies. We look to the news cycle, to our history, and to our own deep knowing to find the key to our survival in the part of us that has been most attacked.
Bain (lead creator) is a gender liminal artist based in Brooklyn. His plays have been presented at the Kraine, the Tank, and Dixon Place. His book of poetry, Debridement, was a finalist for the Publishing Triangle awards. Originating in slam and performance poetry, he has worked as an actor with several independent theater companies in NYC. He works extensively with trauma, embodiment, and sexuality, but he’d rather just dance with you. More at tiresiasprojekt.com
Katie Kay Chelena (she/her, co-director / movement consultant) is a stargazer, queer Appalachian, and New York Neo-Futurist. Her work has been shown at House of YES, the Kraine Theater, New York Shakespeare Exchange, and Queens Museum. Raised all over the South, rooted in North Carolina, and schooled at UNC Chapel Hill, she spends her time in New York unlearning. She likes watching airplanes fly and sabering champagne. www.KatieKayChelena.com // www.NYNeoFuturists.org
Stephon (performer) is from Brooklyn, born and raised, is a UX designer, and met C. shaking their ass on the dancefloor of Bowery Ballroom.
Summer Minerva (performer) is an Italian American actor, performance artist, writer and educator from Staten Island, most known for their work reclaiming the sanctity of transgender identities across cultures. Their performance work has shown internationally on both screen and stage. They have been featured on national Italian television (RAI) for their project Sacred Gender, which unites LGBTQ Americans with their ethnic cultures of origin. They are on faculty at SUNY Empire State College and lead a pilgrimage of LGBTQ Italian Americans to Napoli every year.