"Beth is intentionally engaged in a constant iterative practice of both creating for the stage and designing her daily life in equal measure. I’ve never met a more consistent and grounded human being who is simultaneously engaged in the arts field and within the science community, while also modeling that these worlds are indeed not worlds apart, but rather exist along a continuum of internal and external manifestations of thought, practice, perception and experience." - Amy Miller, GDC Director
Desire Motor: An NYC-based performance project
Her essence both in chemico-physiological and in the ontological meanings of the word, is desire. This essence is, at one and the same time, a lubricant and her being in itself. Her essence, her being, is desire, and this desire, which cannot be reduced to feelings although it originates in them, is but a desire for being. – Octavio Paz, Appearance Stripped Bare
Thesis Things Do Not Bellow Long Together (2020-)
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Thirst (2018-2019)
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One of You Is Fake (2017-2018)
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Beast (2016-2017)
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"Beth Graczyk invites us to remember that change is indeed possible - that how we feel right now is not set in stone - that it and we will shift. She reminds us that we each have the capacity to transform from moment to moment as she does - through every breathtakingly, detailed second of her crafting of space and time." - Amy Miller, GDC Director
"It's been a long time since dance critic Apollinaire Scherr, writing for the New York Times, cited the maxim "Talking is talking and dancing is dancing" and lamented how rare it is to find the two working together artfully. Beth Graczyk has that rare talent: she is equally precise and expressive in movement and word." - Jen Mack, Data Analyst & Enthusiast
"Penelope engages! She inspires! You sit, rapt, suddenly reacquainted to your BEING, eyelids presenting themselves as miracles, skin reawakened and aware of cloth and air. You embody possibility. I crave her." - Alicia Walter, Chef & Enthusiast
"It's been a long time since dance critic Apollinaire Scherr, writing for the New York Times, cited the maxim "Talking is talking and dancing is dancing" and lamented how rare it is to find the two working together artfully. Beth Graczyk has that rare talent: she is equally precise and expressive in movement and word." - Jen Mack, Data Analyst & Enthusiast
"Penelope engages! She inspires! You sit, rapt, suddenly reacquainted to your BEING, eyelids presenting themselves as miracles, skin reawakened and aware of cloth and air. You embody possibility. I crave her." - Alicia Walter, Chef & Enthusiast
Biography
Beth Graczyk is a Brooklyn-based dance artist and scientist. She brings a decade of teaching nationally and internationally, working with populations spanning from non-dancers to advanced professionals. She is commissioned to make a new dance work with Interact Theater, a radical inclusion theater group with their LGBTQIA artists, and will tour through the MN Touring Arts Grant to 4 cities starting at the Mayo Clinic in July 2020. She has a collaborative partnership with John Gutierrez (G^2), in which they co-teach improvisation and create performance works together. In addition, Beth partners with BAIRA in Detroit as a teaching and creative collaborator, is a resident artist for NYC-based Pioneers Go East Collective, and is on Faculty at Peridance Contemporary Dance Center. Graczyk has performed throughout the United States and internationally in Japan, Ecuador, France and India for the past 17 years. Concurrently, she has contributed to 10 science publications in the field of cancer research. Graczyk travels annually to India to work as an educator and choreographer with Kerala-based artists Sen Jansen and Arunima Gupta. She co-directed the performance company Salt Horse in Seattle with Corrie Befort and Angelina Baldoz from 2008-2016. After moving to NYC five years ago, Graczyk launched a solo project called Desire Motor. In NYC, her solo works have been presented by Gibney, La MaMa, Judson Church, Jack, Triskelion, CPR, Movement Research, Oye Group, Kraine Theater, Chez Bushwick and through Pioneers Goes East Collective. As a performer, Graczyk has most recently danced for Raja Kelly, Sara Shelton Mann, Amy Chavasse, and Jen Salk/Chase Angier.