Two Duos: Nicole Bindler/David Dove & Jess Keyes/Matthew Williams
Schedule
Sun Oct 27 2024 at 08:00 pm
UTC-04:00Location
2640 St Paul St, Baltimore, MD 21218, United States | Baltimore, MD
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Join us for a special Mid-Atlantic Wilderness presenting two duos of music + movement!2640 Space
Sunday, October 27
Doors at 8, Music at 8:30 sharp
$5-10 at the door
David Dove's (Houston, TX) Subwoofer Trombone uses pitched-down trombone and subwoofers site-specifically, filling spaces with slow-moving sub-bass frequencies and doom-blues. Nicole Bindler (Philly, PA) makes improvised dances underpinned by her 25 years of practice in Body-Mind Centering® and other somatic methods; a fascination with everyday objects; and clowning. Together they create evening-length duo performances that are dark, drony, dreamy, and filled with surprises.
Jess Keyes and Matthew Williams of Baltimore have performed together only once before, at the Mid-Atlantic Wilderness/Sustain Us special show on December 18, 2022. They will improvise sound and movement together again for this special night of duos.
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A trombone player, composer, improviser, and workshop-facilitator, David Dove has given performances and workshops across the US and internationally. As Founding Director of Nameless Sound (a non-profit organization in Houston, Texas), he curates/presents a concert series of international contemporary experimental music, and has developed a philosophy and practice for music workshops. Nameless Sound’s pedagogy identifies collaborative improvisation for its potential towards goals of knowledge exchange, creative work, healing, community building, and play. Nameless Sound serves hundreds of youth annually in Houston homeless shelters, community centers, public schools, and refugee communities. Dove has written on music pedagogy, including a chapter titled “The Music is the Pedagogy” that has been published in the collection “Beyond the Classroom” (Routledge).
Nicole Bindler–dance-maker, Body-Mind Centering® practitioner, writer, and activist–has practiced contact improvisation for 25 years. 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; and a solo dance, The Case for Invagination, in which her scars speak candidly about trauma and desire. Upcoming engagements include co-editing a book, Gathering Sparks: Jewish Arts and Somatics, and contributing essays to the 2024 issue of BMC Currents, and the Embryo Book Project.
Jess Keyes is a Baltimore-based performer and composer exploring interdisciplinary music-making, ecstatic energy, and communion with the audience. Her solo practice for saxophone and electronics explores the tensions and transportive nature of durational performance with slowly building complexity, often delving into themes of chronic illness and disability. Jessica leads a 12-piece punk brass band called Bedlam Brass and co-organizes Mid-Atlantic Wilderness, a series of experimental improvised music.
Matthew Williams (they/them) is a Baltimore-based dancer, somatic facilitator, and lifelong student of the body. Their performance practice is inspired by the human body as a site for choice, liberation, and a means to be in relationship with place and community across differences. Matthew is engaged with Western Somatics, choreographic and improvisational movement arts, voice work, and the study of functional anatomy. They are currently a student of Somatic Experiencing and the Axis Syllabus. They are a longtime member and organizer of Move Move Collaborative, an annual movement intensive where artists gather in Baltimore to make a performance by consensus. Matthew has taught in various universities and organized community-based educational opportunities. Their performance work has been supported by residencies at the Ucross Foundation and Playa Summer Lake, Labbodies Performance Art Review, Transmodern Festival, Baltimore Independent Dance Artists, Move Move Collaborative, and Baltimore Office of Promotion & the Arts. Matthew holds a BA in Cultural Studies from Bates College and MFA in Theatre Arts from Towson University.
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This event is made possible with the support of a Maryland State Arts Council Creative Grant and Deutsch Foundation Rubys Artist Award.
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