About
Beth Graczyk is a dance artist who works as a performer, choreographer, teacher, and biochemist. Since 2001, Graczyk has performed throughout the states including New York, Minneapolis, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Portland, and Seattle and internationally in Japan, Ecuador and France. Graczyk is currently collaborating on the performance project Cacophony for 8 Players, with Danish artist Torben Ulrich and musician Angelina Baldoz. In 2012-2013 Graczyk choreographed a version of John Cage’s STEPS in collaboration with musician Jarrad Powell and video artist Robert Campbell. Graczyk co-directs the performance company Salt Horse with Corrie Befort and Baldoz. They have created three evening-length works since 2008, and toured This Was A Cliff through the SCUBA national touring network. Through her collaborative work she has received funding from Artist Trust, 4 Culture, Washington State Arts Commission, and The National Endowment for the Arts. Graczyk is also a Research Scientist with six science publications in the field of mitosis, including a first author paper in Analytical Biochemistry.
As a dance artist I'm interested in the physical research of:
The absent body.
The amplified body.
The unstable body.
The body as image.
The body as sound.
The body as landscape.
The body as constellation.
The body as desire.
The raw body.
The technical body.
The exhaustable body.
The body in conflict.
The swollen body.
The body in relation to other bodies, both living and not.
The circumstantial body.
The back body.
The repetitive body.
The light body.
The mirrored body.
The conditioned body.
The unresolvable body.
The rebellious body.
The disturbed body.
The language(ing) body.
The error prone body.
The emotional body.
The hidden body.
The silent body.
The dormant body.
The diseased body.
The lying body.
The body as truth.
The complacent body.
The questioning body.
The disintegrating body.
The forgotten body.
The awkward body.
The idealized body.
The uncomfortable body.
The anonymous body.
The stolen body.
The social body.
The spiritual body.
* Photo credit - Tim Summers, drawing - Ollie Glatzer, photoshop design - Corrie Befort, concept Beth Graczyk
As a dance artist I'm interested in the physical research of:
The absent body.
The amplified body.
The unstable body.
The body as image.
The body as sound.
The body as landscape.
The body as constellation.
The body as desire.
The raw body.
The technical body.
The exhaustable body.
The body in conflict.
The swollen body.
The body in relation to other bodies, both living and not.
The circumstantial body.
The back body.
The repetitive body.
The light body.
The mirrored body.
The conditioned body.
The unresolvable body.
The rebellious body.
The disturbed body.
The language(ing) body.
The error prone body.
The emotional body.
The hidden body.
The silent body.
The dormant body.
The diseased body.
The lying body.
The body as truth.
The complacent body.
The questioning body.
The disintegrating body.
The forgotten body.
The awkward body.
The idealized body.
The uncomfortable body.
The anonymous body.
The stolen body.
The social body.
The spiritual body.
* Photo credit - Tim Summers, drawing - Ollie Glatzer, photoshop design - Corrie Befort, concept Beth Graczyk
