Imagination, Body, Play
Sunday October 19th, 10am-12pm
We’ll warm up by layering physical tasks that expand attention to breath, space, time, and connection with others—infused with a glimmering focus on gradients of weight, touch, and suspension. Through iterative cycles of action, image, and scenario, we’ll invite the subconscious to lead as we soften how we observe ourselves and each other, making room for play. We'll move through solo and ensemble practices to ground and grow the architectures of our individual and collective imaginations. Plan to build some heat, sweat and move!
Beth Graczyk is a dance-maker, director, educator, and scientist based in Brooklyn/Lenapehoking. As Artistic Director of Beth Graczyk Productions, Inc. (BGP), a national nonprofit based in NYC, she bridges art and science through interdisciplinary performance while centering queer and neurodivergent perspectives. Since 2002, Graczyk has performed and choreographed nationally and internationally, including in Japan, Ecuador, France, China, and India. Her work has been presented by Velocity Dance Center, Gibney, La MaMa, JACK, CPR, and Movement Research, among others. Her recent dance documentary film, Waiting for the Bus, explores self-expression, movement, and identity through the lens of autism. It was an Official Selection in 2025 at the Winter Film Festival in NYC, and in 2024 at the NY Global Lift-Off and Sans Souci Dance Film Festivals. Since 2019, she has been on faculty at the NYC Peridance Certificate Program, teaching improvisation. In addition, she works part-time as a Research Specialist at The Rockefeller University in the lab of MacArthur Fellow Dr. Vanessa Ruta, studying olfaction in insects. Graczyk is an author on ten scientific publications. She has received funding from 4Culture, Artist Trust, the Washington State Arts Commission, and the NEA, and commissions from the City of Seattle, Peridance Collective, Northwest Film Forum, and Cornish College of the Arts. Notable collaborators include Torben Ulrich, Corrie Befort, John Maria Gutierrez, Aaron Gabriel, and Amy Chavasse; she has danced for Sara Shelton Mann, Mark Haim, Raja Kelly, and Molly Scott, among others.