NICOLE
BINDLER performs poignant, tragi-comic dance theater pieces that
subvert gender roles and images of women in popular culture. She uses props,
costumes and an original dance vocabulary that combines visceral, athletic
movement with subtle, unusual postures and gestures. Bindler LMT, holds
a degree in Muscular Therapy from the Muscular Therapy Institute and 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. Last year she toured with musician Bhob Rainey. This summer she
toured with dancers Alli Ross and Lailye Weidman as "The Innocents". Some
destinations included WAX, New York and Links Hall, Chicago.
KERI BURNESTON is a performer, costumer, acrobat, activist and
Open Society Institute Community Fellow. Keri founded the community based
performance art group, Fluid Movement in 1998 and is responsible for bringing
Fluid Movement's trademark synchronized swimming shows into being. Keri
is also known as Charm City's Burlesque Superhero, Trixie Little and is
also currently developing a youth circus with inner city kids. Keri's performance
style has a lively blend of influences- ranging from MGM musicals, cartoons
to surrealism. "
AUDREY
CHEN is a classically trained musician embarking on a career in
performance art and experimental free improv music. She graduated from the
Peabody Conservatory with a degree in voice and specializes mostly in early
and contemporary music genres. She has attended and performed at summer
music festivals, such as Tanglewood, Aspen, and Vancouver Early Music Festival.
More recently, she has delved head first into Baltimore's experimental music
scene with performances at venues such as the Red Room, 14kt Cabaret, Creative
Alliance, and this year's High Zero Festival at the Theatre Project. She
has also played in Washington DC, Philadelphia, and New York City. Upcoming
performances will be in Boston at the Zeitgeist gallery with John Berndt
in late November. And at the Chela gallery's "Transmodern Age: Otherworldly
Adornment" show on December 12 and 13. She has been described as " a firey
cellist/vocalist improvisor with performative twists, technical virtuosity,
and intensity to spare..." She is also the mother of Iven, a three year
old prodigy cow bell player, who made his debut at the Red Room almost a
year ago. She spends her spare time as a runner and triathlete. 
LAURE DROGOUL is a visual artist, performer, and "cobbler
of situations" who works in a wide range of media and contexts, including
large-scale sculpture, installation, and performance. She has nationally
exhibited and performed throughout the East Coast and recently traveled
to Russia to exhibit one of her recent projects, Olfactory Factory, which
presented the smells of Baltimore in St. Petersburg. Laure is founder/director
of The 14Karat Cabaret, the performance venue/cultural laboratory of Maryland
Art Place in Baltimore. As The 14Kt.Cabaret hostess she has presented multi-disciplinary
performances, music, film, dance, as well as innumerable kooks and hybrid
acts of all sorts. 
Sound
Mechanic NEIL FEATHER has been creating radical and unusual
musical instruments for thirty years, and is increasingly known outside
of Baltimore as one of the most original musical thinkers of his day. His
instruments each embody uniquely clever acoustic and engineering principles,
and are visually arresting. The music he plays on the instruments is equally
original, embodying new principles and resulting in a nearly alien idiom
of music. A founding member of THUS and THE OFFICIAL PROJECT, as well as
the leader of AEROTRAIN, he has a long history of collaborative projects
and solo concerts.
CHIARA
GIOVANDO(AKA Power Animal and Fatty McFatty) has toured the United
States twice performing in bands, and has curated, composed and designed
sound installations internationally. She has also performed her solo music
in Germany, Italy, Taiwan and Mexico. She has three self released albums
and appears on several compilation releases. She has also created sound
installations in Taipei, Taiwan at Tsu Wei Studios, in Santa Fe, New Mexico
at Plan B and at the San Francisco Art Institute.
SARAH HLUCHAN'S performances are opportunities for her self and
audience to adjust their modes q of perception. She creates areas of alternate
realities p that invite participants to disassociate with the expected world
and their identities v within it, and enter into other conceivable dimensions
of time, space, and consciousness. Her work interprets this present dimension
as a set of parameters z defined by a consensual but arbitrary structure
that human psychology imposes upon the world. X. She experiments with living
life as an illusion. Hluchan works mostly with materials of music, sculpture,
performance, and writing. With the help of alter egos, she has created Squawk
Bird's Nest - a eucalyptus nest of human scale, the Giant Ball of Lint -
a five foot ball of lint made from national contributions, and is currently
designing a Kaleidoscopic Echo Dome for a public playground in Oakland,
CA. xqrpzxqrpxqrxqx 
ELAND GRAF and LARKIN are performance artists
who work in traditional and new medias to create works that explore a kind
of terminological boundary in mainstream consumer society. Their latest
work, The Longest Distance Between Two Points That May or May Not Exist,
chronicles the nauseating nervous breakdown of a masturbatory post-human
computer program named Terminus.
BETSY MCDONALD is a recent addition to Balti-world. She holds a
degree in painting and has shown work in Providence, Louisville and Oklahoma
City. Her art vampirizes the past and often resembles piles of debris. These
piles are the skins of personal narratives. In her spare time, Betsy likes
to create semisweet semisick fashion shows. She also bakes pies -- and enjoys
a cultish renown for the following: Strawberry Shortcake, Coconut Chess,
Apple Crumb. 
JACKIE
MILAD wears many disguises: such as co-founder of CHELA/ grad student/art
school survivor/ drawing fiend/jewelry designer/tiny business owner/compulisve
list maker/high heel shoe lover/cat lover/nap taker/daughter/sister/aunt/girlfriend/
AQ3 orbitor/ and most recently monkeybar maker. She'll be performing with
TEMPLE CROCKER. 
CARLY
PTAK likes to make stuff. she is a co-conspirator in the venue
tarantula hill, the label heresee and the band nautical almanac. she also
does lots of other stuff but can only keep track of so much at once.
AMINIBIGCIRCUS
presents: A Transpocolyptic Squaredance performed by MELISSA WEBB
and JULIE ANDERSON. aminibigcircus is a gathering
of collaborating artists producing works in music, film, and live performance.
We are mutt-art, a synthesis of styles and stories that focus on the human
adventure. Our approach is flexible and responsive, blending minds and images
into a visceral choreography, part rehearsed, part realized in the moment.
Communication is central to our experience with each other and with you
and you and you. www.aminibigcircus.com
MUSICIANS:
TOM BORAM is a musician, met a fizzacyst, and a pretty good cook. he uses borax and grass. he has worked with such luminiaries as peter pan, the brown hornet, and the wonderful wizard of oz.
DAN BREEN has lived in Baltimore for five years. He is currently involved in a wide variety of music. Trying to find the most precise way to shoot himself in the foot. Carefully building his own trap doors. Striving to be punctual and obtuse. Scurrying and gnashing. Flaling and reclining. Five years.
ANDY HAYLECK'S recent release is titled "Various Recordings Involving Ice." Current musical pursuit is unamplified bowed metal (musical saw and cymbals) and field recordings.
PAUL NEIDHARDT (percussion) Attacking drum heads, cymbals and wood with all manner of sticks, Neidhardt is an amazing young improvisor whose music can range from thundering polyrhythms to subtle textual assaults from second to second, recalling the best of European free music drummers. With a background in rock, jazz, and 20th century music, he is a frequent collaborator of Audrey Chen, Chris Pumphrey, and many other musicians and rapidly becoming and important voice in Baltimore's musical landscape.
CHRIS PUMPHREY is a musician and composer who has lived in Baltimore for the last four years. He has studied composition with Stuart Saunders Smith. He has written scores for the theatre groups Fluid Movement,The Living Room Company,and has written a composition for the Patterson Park Halloween Parade the last two years. He is a member,and contributing composer of the groups Il Culo, The Baltimore Collective, The Financial Group, and John Berndt's Multiphonic Orchestra. Chris participated in the 2003 High Zero Festival. He also plays with Paul Neidhart and Audrey Chen in a free improvisational setting.
KRISTEN TOEDTMAN has left the fold. Trained classically in voice, violin and piano, she's entered a world of crossed musical styles and stretched boundaries and only returns when tempted with green (and now pastel-hued) papers. Kristen has been seen and heard playing in the Red Room, at the High Zero Festival and around town when least expected. She recently performed a solo night of cabaret music from around the world at the Patterson Theatre, and is heading to Argentina within the year to work with a singer/guitarist/composer of tangos and milongas. Check out www.kristentoedtman.com.