Wild Meadows June 8-11 Improvisation Performance Practice Sat/Sun, March 22nd/23rd Grassroots Studio, Seattle, WA In this two day workshop we will practice the craft of improvisation. Scores will include Habitats: environmental dances and Moving Monologues: solo movement/text improvisations. In Habitats we will investigate how the environment can inspire our dancing. We will be improvising a lot, witnessing each other and experimenting with solo and group scores. How can we inhabit an environment as we dance, whether it's a stage, studio or the outdoors? In Moving Monologues we will use text/movement improvisations as a practice to learn more about who we are as performers and to gently push ourselves further. We will ask ourselves how can we be articulate in both media? How can we use both media to strengthen each other? My personal interest is not in finding a direct correlation between the movement and text, but in using one to unlock habits in the other. Performance Practice is for dancers and actors who love to improvise. Please bring a notebook and plenty of water. In the fall of 2002, Nicole Bindler taught Zaitoun Dance Troupe a Modern Dance workshop to help broaden their technical range: "Nicole seemed to see into our bodies and know what we needed to improve on. Her acute body awareness helped her to understand our weaknesses and push us to explore and strengthen them. Our entire group feels that we benefited greatly from her gentle and directed instruction. Zaitoun recommends her as a talented, patient, and conscientious dance instructor." -Bonnie Toland, Founding Member of Zaitoun Dance Troupe