CORRIE BEFORT D A N C E A N D F I L M
UPCOMING:
Corrie is dancing in The Snow Project, choreographed by Allison Van Dyck, premiering September 18th - 27th, 2008 at the Lawrimore Project, Seattle. More info here.
Designer Suzi Tucker has hired Corrie to create a dance film about Alzheimer's Disease for the The Institute for Complex Adaptive Matter (ICAM) to be released January, 2009. More on ICAM here.
Sagamihara, a seven-part dance film shot in Japan throughout 2007 is currently being scored by five Japanese and US composers, and will premiere in 2009. Project details here.
RECENTLY:
Salt Horse premiered in Seattle June 6th - 15th, 2008, in HaLo on Capitol Hill. An evening-length, semi-improvised work created by dancers Corrie Befort and Beth Graczyk and musician Angelina Baldoz, Salt Horse has been an on-going international project since 2005 and was first performed in Yokohama and Osaka, Japan in May 2007. Complete information on the Salt Horse page.
Dance film Rota received a Choreography Media Honor from DCW at the American Directors Guild in Hollywood. Click here to play a video excerpt. Project details here.
Corrie taught advanced modern technique in Strictly Seattle Dance Festival July 7th - 26th at Velocity Dance Center. Festival website here.
Corrie was the featured filmmaker and curator for dance film showcase Next Moment produced and screened by UPLINK, Tokyo, December 2007. Project details here.
The Canopy, an evening-length solo for dancer Yuki Enomoto (image above) was presented in the Dance Ga Mitai Festival, Tokyo, July 2007. Project details here.
Austrian photographer Laurent Ziegler collaborated with Corrie for his
upcoming work, The eye doesn't know, in Yokohama and Tokyo.
Click here to see a collection of images (first 6), and here for his
website. Project details here.
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