Beth Graczyk is an independent performance artist and Artistic Director of Beth Graczyk Productions.
Beth Graczyk is a choreographer, dance artist, biochemist, writer, fabricator, and film-maker who explores the alignments and incongruencies of what appear to be concrete facts with what is felt and observed within the human experience. At the core of her work are intersectional dialogues that focus on expressing unseen or ignored perspectives, including female-identifying, neurodiverse, LGBTQIA2+, and non-human forms in nature. Her practice centers around forming structures from visceral impulses that examine the interplay between uncertainty and materiality, particularly in relation to pleasure, perception, vulnerability and connection.
Beth Graczyk is a choreographer, dance artist, biochemist, writer, fabricator, and film-maker who explores the alignments and incongruencies of what appear to be concrete facts with what is felt and observed within the human experience. At the core of her work are intersectional dialogues that focus on expressing unseen or ignored perspectives, including female-identifying, neurodiverse, LGBTQIA2+, and non-human forms in nature. Her practice centers around forming structures from visceral impulses that examine the interplay between uncertainty and materiality, particularly in relation to pleasure, perception, vulnerability and connection.
Desire Motor
Thresholds
Other Collaborations
Biography
Beth Graczyk is a choreographer, director, performer and educator based in Brooklyn/Lenapehoking whose 20-year career as a creative-maker and scientist has allowed her to cultivate a unique perspective. She is the Artistic Director of Beth Graczyk Productions, Inc. (BGP) which creates intersections in arts and science through contemporary dance-based projects celebrating LGBtQIA+ and neurodiverse communities. Since 2002, Graczyk has performed throughout the US and in Japan, Ecuador, France, China and India and in NYC has been presented by Velocity Dance Center, Gibney, La Mama, Jack, CPR, and Movement Research amongst others. In 2019, Graczyk directed a new work in collaboration with Aaron Gabriel examining the experiences of LGBTQIA+ artists with disabilities that was workshopped at the Walker Arts Center and featured in Critical Correspondence. She is on Faculty for the Peridance Certification Program in NYC. Concurrently, Graczyk is an author on 10 science publications and received a 2020 Pilot Award from Rockefeller University with collaborator Guadalupe Astorga for research on visual perception and neurodiversity. Graczyk co-directed the performance company Salt Horse in Seattle from 2008-2016 where they received funding from 4 Culture, Artist Trust, Washington State Arts Commission, NEA and commissions including City of Seattle, Northwest Film Forum and Cornish. She has many ongoing collaborations with artists including John Maria Gutierrez (G^2), Aaron Gabriel, Amy Chavasse, Michael Wolfe, and in the recent past with danish artist Torben Ulrich. @bethgraczyk
Beth Graczyk Productions, Inc is a 501(c)(3) based in NYC
Beth Graczyk Productions, Inc is committed to anti-racism and de-colonization practices through self-education, community engagement, and sustaining connections and support with individuals and organizations engaging in the work.
Video & edit: Rooftop, Beth Graczyk
Photos: Effy Grey
Photos: Effy Grey