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Robert Bingham is Visiting Artist in Residence in Dance at Alfred University. He holds a B.A. from Wesleyan University and an M.F.A. in Dance from SUNY Brockport, where he was a Pylyshenko-Strasser Award recipient. Prior to attending graduate school, Robert danced with several New York-based companies and artists including De Facto Dance, Ishmael Houston-Jones, and Jennifer Monson. His own work was included in programs at various venues, including P.S.122 and The Painted Bride in Philadelphia. More recently he has collaborated in creating dances with Kelly Donovan, dance scholar Sondra Fraleigh, and butoh-based choreographer Lani Fand Weissbach, and he regularly co-creates work with AU colleague D. Chase Angier, with whom he performs frequently throughout the east coast and in Mexico as Angier/Bingham Dance. Robert's solo performance work has been presented in theaters, galleries and public spaces throughout the U.S. and in Canada.
Robert has had extensive training in somatic modalities, including certification to teach yoga (Integral Yoga Institute, 1996), and graduation from East-West Institute of Somatic Therapy (2003). He has studied in depth with butoh artist Diego Piñon in both the U.S. and in Mexico. His essays on somatics and butoh have appeared in Sondra Fraleigh's "Butoh: Metamorphic Dance and Global Alchemy" (University of Illinois Press, 2010), in Akiko Kishida's "Dance Conditioning - Experiential Anatomy & Somatic Movement Lessons-" (Ski Journal Co., Ltd., Japan, 2009), and at arts conferences in the U.S., Mexico and Germany. For over a decade Robert has traveled regularly to India where he has studied dance, yoga and meditation and where he has also taught, choreographed and performed.
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