Seattle Premiere:

Friday June 6th, 8 PM, and Sunday June 8th, 1 PM
Saturday June 14th, 8 PM,
and Sunday June 15th, 1 PM

HaLo,
500 E Pike St., 2nd floor, Capitol Hill, Seattle, WA
www.centuryballroom.com/html/map.html
         
          $15 admission:  www.brownpapertickets.com


An evening-length work created by dancers Corrie Befort and Beth Graczyk and musician Angelina Baldoz, the Seattle premiere of Salt Horse is the culmination of a series of residencies and performances in Seattle and Japan since 2005
(performance history below).

Structured by layers of scored improvisation, choreography, composed sound and film work, Salt Horse illuminates how time may affect one's ability to shift perception.  Two characters, one dense and one hollow, traverse a room, a forest, and a wormhole to reveal their separate fates.  A voice becomes water, bodies fly, crumble and morph. Salt Horse is a playful and dark look at petrification and evolution.

Committed to rigorous investigation of improvisation and composition, the collaborating artists have richly varied backgrounds. Graczyk is both an accomplished dancer and a published biochemist. Befort, recently dual-based in Seattle and Japan, is a commissioned choreographer and filmmaker. Baldoz, trumpet, bass and voice, has scored feature films and collaborated with renowned dance artists.
  Full biographies follow.

The Seattle premiere of Salt Horse is funded in part by an Artist Trust GAP Grant.


Biographies:

Corrie Befort
- see Profile page

Angelina Baldoz has been performing and composing in the Seattle improvisational music and dance communities since 1996. Her distinctive trumpet playing has been presented in collaboration with Deborah Hay, Gust Burns, Lori Goldston, Ellen Fullman, Susie Kozawa, Beth Graczyk, Jason E Anderson, Paul Hoskin, and Torben Ulrich. Last fall she scored the feature film "Aliens Cut My Hair", as well as composed and performed for an evening length dance concert with Portland choreographer Linda Austin. Currently, Angelina can be heard around the Northwest with the newly formed quartet Instead Of, and playing electric bass with the rock band BC Campbell & The Celebrity Orphans (or view Myspace page).

Beth Graczyk is a contemporary dancer and improviser based in Seattle, WA. She has worked extensively with Locate Performance Group (Pablo Cornejo, Paige Barnes) (2002-2006), Sheri Cohen & Co. (2000-2004), Corrie Befort (2003-present) and Scott/Powell Performance (2004-present). Outside of Seattle she has performed in Portland, San Francisco, Philadelphia, Minneapolis, New York, Ecuador and Japan.  Beth earned a double degree from the University of Washington in Dance and Molecular Biology. She is a published science author and has worked for the past 5 years doing biochemistry research.


Past performances, Japan/Seattle:   www.makejetsilent.com/salthorse/

April - May 2007: Japan Residency and Premiere
                          with Jason E Anderson and Yuki Enomoto

      May 6, 2007
      Cafe Pause, Tokyo
  www.geocities.jp/cafe_pause_ikebukuro
      with Takahiro Kawaguchi, Kannichiro Oda and Shinjioro Yamaguchi

               
May 11 - 13, 2007 (premiere)
                STspot Theater, Yokohama       www.stspot.jp
        

                May 15, 2007
                Bridge, Osaka   
http://gule.pupui.jp


January 2007: Seattle Residency

Performance: Velocity MainSpace Theater
                    www.velocitydancecenter.org

June 2006:  Performance: Once, CoCA, Seattle   www.cocaseattle.org

May 2006: Bares Bones Concert, Velocity MainSpace, Seattle

April 2006: Seattle Residency

Performances: Gallery 1412, Seattle   www.gallery1412.org
                      CoCA, Seattle 


November 2005: Japan Residency - Corrie Befort and Beth Graczyk                 
Performances: Coco Room, Osaka
  Shindenjukuyotsuya Center, Kanagawa, Japan       



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