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I have a new blog hosted by authorsden.com, it will mostly focus on my various adventures in the literary and performing arts and is linked to my page at http://authorsden.com/ianthal

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Sunday, July 27, 8pm:

Performance@Large, a performance series at Artists at Large presents an evening with:

Choreography by
Nicole Bindler

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Cosmic Spelunker Theater
[mime + poetry performance troupe]
featuring James Van Looy & Ian Thal

$7 suggested donation

Artists at Large, Inc.
37 Everett Street
(corner of Everett and Hyde Park Ave.)
Hyde Park, MA
617-276-3223
http://artistsatlargeinc.org

Note: Cosmic Spelunker Theater had been originally scheduled to perform on June 29th but had to rescheduled to this day due to injury

Performance@Large (P@L) is an ongoing series at Artists at Large. The intent of the series is to provide a show case for local artists in a DIY context. As a general rule, two artists or troupes of artists will be featured on a given evening, though anything is possible. P@L is curated by Ian Thal.

Nicole Bindler LMT, holds a BA in Dance and Poetry from Hampshire College. She has studied Modern Dance, Contact Improvisation, Composition, Martial Arts, Yoga, Butoh, Pilates, Body-Mind Centering and Feldenkrais. Some of her most influential teachers have been Wendy Woodson, Felice Wolfzahn, Cathy Caraker, Rythea Kaufman, Jessica Newman, Deborah Butler and Debra Bluth. Nicole Bindler has shown her own multimedia work throughout Boston, the Northeast, Midwest and in Berlin. She has performed in the work of Brenda Divelbliss, Jennifer Hicks and has ongoing collaborations with dancers Lailye Weidman, Alli Ross and Joe Burgio. She has worked with many experimental musicians including Bhob Rainey, Greg Kelley, Jonathan Vincent, Howard Stelzer Vic Rawlings and Mike Bullock. Nicole Bindler is highly influenced by comic books. She also directs political street theater.Occasionally she can be found lying dead in the street in protest of war. She has presented her work at Movement Works in Progress at Mobius, Green Street Studios, The Dance Complex, Studio 211 and recently completed a six city tour with the Innocents (her collaboration with Weidman and Ross)

Cosmic Spelunker Theater is a mime and poetry troupe featuring the talents of James Van Looy and Ian Thal. Since their first performance in March of 2002 they have brought their fusion of movement theater and spoken word to the Movement Works in Progress at Mobius, Zeitgeist Gallery, Out of the Blue Art Gallery, The Revolving Museum, the Warwick Museum of Art, and most recently the Bowery Poetry Club in New York. Van Looy was a performer and instructor with Mirage Mime Theater, and the Collective Mime. Ian Thal had been a fixture on the post punk spoken word scene before the two began training and rehearsing together in 2001.

Next P@L is Sunday, September 28th and will feature Heather McQuiston + TBA