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#BlackLivesMatter
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Anti-racism resource: HERE
#BlackLivesMatter
Start with educating yourself!
Anti-racism resource: HERE
"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
Beth Graczyk is a Brooklyn-based dance artist and scientist who aims to create spaces that celebrate infinite ways of being, seeing, and thinking through the courage to explore the unknown in a confident and playful way. She sparks creative and inclusive dialogue through performance, teaching, and contemporary dance-based projects highlighting connections with LGBTQIA+ and disabled communities. Graczyk seeks innovation through rigorous collaborations with creative experts in different fields including science and technology to inspire a greater accessibility of ideas through time-based community engagements.
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 2021. Graczyk has performed throughout the United States and internationally in Japan, Ecuador, France, China and India for the past 17 years. Concurrently, she has contributed to 10 science publications in the field of cancer research. 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 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.