CORRIE BEFORT D A N C E A N D F I L M
UPCOMING:
Corrie and Beth Graczyk (Salt Horse) will be co-teaching and setting
new work this summer in Velocity's Strictly Seattle Festival,
July 11th-31st. More about the festival here.
Saturdays in July Corrie will be teaching dance classes for people
Parkinson's Disease at the Peter Kirk Community Center in
Kirkland. The program is made possible through a partnership with
the Mark Morris Dance Company, Evergreen Hospital, Seattle
Theater Group and Spectrum Dance.
Registration for this program here. Video about dance for PD here.
Salt Horse has begun work on a new piece, Titan Arum, that will
premiere 2011. Visit Salt Horse here.
Cut Chalk, Corrie's most recent dance/sound project (NWNW 2010),
was shot at Seattle's Washington Hall for a new dance film to be
released later this year. More about the piece here.
RECENTLY:
Slip Cadence, a dance film about Alzheimer's Disease commissioned
by the The Institute for Complex Adaptive Matter (ICAM), won the
2009 Award for Best Male Interpretation from Portugal's InShadow
Film competition for Serge Gubelman's performance and choregraphy.
Salt Horse's Man on the Beach evening-length version premiered
February 2010. Visit Salt Horse here.
Corrie was commissioned by Cornish College to create a new work,
Cut Chalk, on the dance department, also collaborating with the
music department to create a live sound score.
Two Kinds of Wind, a dance film shot in Japan with dancer Laurent
Ziegler, was released fall 2009 and is currently screening in festivals
internationally. See the film here.
Salt Horse - this was a cliff toured to ODC, San Francisco,
Philadelphia Dance Projects and back to Seattle February-May
2009. In June 2009 Salt Horse presented a new work Man on the
Beach in OtB's Northwest New Works Festival. Visit Salt Horse here.
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