Duo Works
September 12, 2026
Performance begins at 7 PM
Doors open at 6:45 PM. Discussion & Social Hour at 8 PM.
Join us on September 12th for a series of compositions and improvisations for saxophone, flute, and percussion with David Bindman and Michael Wimberly, along with guest artist/dancer Kaolack.
This very special performance will take place in the main hall of the Park-McCullough House and is a reprise of sorts for David, who performed in the same spot in 1981 as a teen. A Q&A will round out the performance, followed by a Social Hour on the veranda.
Students, $10. Adults, $25. Follow the links below for tickets, or stop by during museum opening hours to purchase (Friday - Monday, 10 AM - 4 PM).
Accessibility is important to us. If you or a member of your party requires special assistance, please contact info@parkmccullough.org with your requests; we hope to be able to accommodate.
Ticket includes performance, Q&A, and social hour. Doors open at 6:45 PM. Seats are general admission. Free, on site parking.
Ticket includes performance, Q&A, and social hour. Doors open at 6:45 PM. Seats are general admission. Free, on site parking.
For a sneak peek of David and Michael’s musicianship, watch/listen to the video!
DAVID BINDMAN: David Bindman, saxophonist and composer, creates works that combine many elements: drawing on the motion of dance, exploring complexities of melody and time unbound, and emphasizing improvisation at the core. His recordings include, with the Brooklyn Sax Quartet, The Way of the Saxophone and Far Side of Here, and, with his sextet, Sunset Park Polyphony and Ten Billion Versions of Reality. He has performed and recorded with Adam Lane, Kevin Norton, Ehran Elisha, Joe Fonda, Scott D. Miller, Wadada Leo Smith, Anthony Braxton, and Fred Ho, among others. He has collaborated with poet Tyrone Henderson and visual artist Quimetta Perle on the multi-media works “The Madman” and “Strawman Dance,” and with Malin Abrahamsson on “The Dream Space Continuum,” a work of music and abstract animation. With Blood Drum Spirit, led by drummer royal hartigan, David has performed in China, the Philippines, and Ghana, including on tours sponsored by the U.S. State Department. Living in North Bennington during his high school years, David studied with Stephen Horenstein and Bill Dixon and became a member of trumpeter Arthur Brooks’s ensemble. He currently divides his time between Brooklyn and North Bennington.
MICHAEL WIMBERLY. Cleveland-born Michael Wimberly studied the rhythms of West Africa and 20th century contemporary music at Baldwin Wallace University and then, during his graduate years at Manhattan School of Music, Wimberly broadened his musical palette studying electronic and improvised music. These explorations connected him with master musicians from Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, South America, and Europe. He has performed with artists as varied as George Clinton, Dionne Warwick, Charles Gayle, Berlin’s Rundfunk Symphony, Vienna’s Tonkuntsler Symphony, and Steve Coleman. His compositions have been performed by dance companies all over the world. His film scores include As an Act of Protest by Dennis Leroy Moore, and Atlantic City Lights by Brent Owens for HBO and he has produced sound design for several major theatre companies. In 2002, he joined the faculty of Bennington College.
KAOLACK. Pape Ibrahima Ndiaye (Kaolack) began his professional dance career at École des Sables in Toubab Dialaw, Senegal. He was a member of Germaine Acogny’s Compagnie Jant-bi from 2001-2007 with whom he toured internationally and danced in works by choreographers including Jawole Willa Jo Zollar and Kota Yamazaki. In 2008, Ndiaye became the first Senegalese choreographer to win the pan-African contemporary dance Danse l’Afrique Danse Choreographic competition from Africa and the Indian Ocean in Tunisia with his solo J’accuse. From 2014 to 2016, Ndiaye worked with nora chipaumire on portrait of myself as my father, which was an incredible experience that opened his mind and furthered his understanding of the aesthetics of the Black body, Black African performing bodies and the radical Black African presence.
Inspired by the Senegalese Ndaga, Ndiaye created his own dance vocabulary and continues to investigate it and unpack its potential as a technique. His work is entirely focused on pushing boundaries of space and time, liveness, and fully being in the spaces we inhabit and claim as our own, while making space for spirit to be present. It is also about the transmission of embodied knowledge—our bodily knowledge, the animist information rooted in Indigenous cultural dance practices that are connected to ancestral wisdom. His work deconstructs decolonization by creating images that are mesmerizing and futuristic. Ndiaye is an MFA graduate of the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, PA. He currently lives between Philadelphia and the Czech Republic. Ndiaye joined the Bennington College faculty in Fall 2024.
