cBefort.com - Profile

Corrie Befort (1978) has been performing and creating dance works for twelve years in the Northwest. In 2008 she returned to Seattle after three years in Tokyo/Yokohama Japan, where her work was presented by numerous venues including STspot, BankArt, UPLINK and the Dance Ga Mitai Festival. Her choreography and film-work have been commissioned by companies, institutions and schools in Minnesota, Belgium, Japan and London and funded by Seattle OACA, Artist Trust, Mary Levine Foundation, Bossak/Heilbron and WSAC. Her work has been described as highly detailed, combining complex patterning with evocative imagery; precise yet enigmatic. She engages in energetic collaborations with composers, musicians, videographers/animators and dancers including Tom Baker, Tom Kanthak, Sheri Cohen, Hisao Ihara, Anne Adachi, Tim Olive and many others.

While in Japan she formed collaborative dance/sound company Salt Horse with dancer/biochemist Beth Graczyk and musician/composer Angelina Baldoz. Salt Horse has performed in Japan and Seattle, touring in '09 to Philadelphia and San Francisco through the SCUBA Touring Program. They are currently resident artists in Seattle’s historic Washington Hall and are on 4Culture’s Touring Arts Roster for 2010. Within Salt Horse Corrie also creates integral video elements and collaborates with Beth to design and construct all of the set, costume elements and stage effects in their works.

Corrie’s dance films have screened in festivals in the USA, Japan, Europe and South America. In 2009 she released Slip Cadence, a dance film about Alzheimer's Disease commissioned by the Institute for Complex Adaptive Matter, which won the Award for Best Male Interpretation from the InShadow Festival of Lisbon, Portugal and screened in the American Dance Festival among others. In 2007 her dance film Rota was awarded a Choreography Media Honor by Dance Camera West at the Directors Guild of America, Hollywood.

Studying dance, music and fine art from an early age, Corrie graduated in ‘96 from the Perpich Center for Arts Education, Minneapolis, received a BFA in dance from Cornish College of the Arts in '99, held a choreographic residency at the Rosas/P.A.R.T.S. school in Brussels in 2000, and was awarded a danceWEB scholarship to Vienna's '03 ImPulsTanz Festival. In 2007 she toured as a soloist throughout Japan and the US East Coast performing with distinctive musicians and ensembles. She has danced for Scott/Powell Performance (1998-2005), Sheri Cohen (2001-2004) and as a guest with Japanese artist Natsuko Tezuka (2005-2007).

Salt Horse is a dance, sound, and visual theater company created by collaborators Corrie Befort (choreographer/performer), Beth Graczyk (choreographer/performer) and Angelina Baldoz (musician/composer). Go to SaltHorsePerformance.com for more.