Your Body as Freedom Tactic - Workshop by Beth Graczyk: Free & Online- POSTPONED to June 20th.
In solidarity and respect for our community and with the Black Lives Matter fight for civil rights equalities, we are postponing Beth Graczyk's Remote Workshop: Your Body as Freedom Tactic. Please join us on June 20th. Our hearts and minds are with our communities as we struggle and fight for justice.
Saturday, June 20, 2020 from 3:00 PM to 5:00 PM
To join us: RSVP at pioneersgoeast@gmail.com and we’ll send you the Meeting ID to join us on Zoom live. All participants are welcome!
We will begin together in our own spaces getting into our body by utilizing breath-work to help articulate individual parts of the body. This will juice us into moving our bodies holistically finding pleasure through what feels possible. We will disrupt habitual patterns of movement playfully, to allow our bodies to facilitate unexpected new pathways. Our exploration will open up to the spaces inhabit, infusing it with our imagination and our bodies to cultivate a responsiveness, an aliveness, a being-ness with the space through humor, absurdity, perceptual play.
Beth Graczyk is a Brooklyn-based dance artist and scientist who aims to spark creative dialogue through performance, teaching, and contemporary dance-based projects focusing on inclusion and celebration of LGBTQIA+ and disabled communities. She brings a decade of teaching nationally and internationally, working with populations spanning from non-dancers to advanced professionals. She is commissioned to make a new dance work with Interact Theater, a radical inclusion theater group with their LGBTQIA artists, and will tour through the MN Touring Arts Grant to 4 cities starting at the Mayo Clinic in 2020. She has a collaborative partnership with John Gutierrez (G^2), in which they co-teach improvisation and create performance works together. In addition, Beth partners with BAIRA in Detroit as a teaching and creative collaborator, is a resident artist for NYC-based Pioneers Go East Collective, and is on Faculty at Peridance Contemporary Dance Center. Graczyk has performed throughout the United States and internationally in Japan, Ecuador, France, and India for the past 17 years. Concurrently, she has contributed to 10 science publications in the field of cancer research. Graczyk travels annually to India to work as an educator and choreographer with Kerala-based artists Sen Jansen and Arunima Gupta. She co-directed the performance company Salt Horse in Seattle with Corrie Befort and Angelina Baldoz from 2008-2016. After moving to NYC five years ago, Graczyk launched a solo project called Desire Motor. In NYC, her solo works have been presented by Gibney, La MaMa, Judson Church, Jack, Triskelion, CPR, Movement Research, Oye Group, Kraine Theater, Chez Bushwick, and through Pioneers Goes East Collective. As a performer, Graczyk has most recently danced for Raja Kelly, Sara Shelton Mann, Amy Chavasse, and Jen Salk/Chase Angier.