Bios
Torben Ulrich (director) is one the most colorful and longest-active personalities in Danish culture of the 20th and 21st centuries, known as an artist, director, musician, writer, filmmaker and professional athlete — all carried out with a striking originality. His lifelong work and wide-ranging studies of movement and spiritual disciplines (athletics, dance, yoga, Buddhism, Sufism, etc.) have placed him as a notable thinker and found him since the 1940s in direct contact with many great artists, including being mentored by Sidney Bechet, playing with Louis Armstrong, and meetings with John Coltrane and John Cage, among many others. As a youth, Ulrich studied dance with Hans Beck, principal dancer under and successor to Danish choreographer August Bournonville, and translated Nijinsky’s diary into Danish. In the 1960s Ulrich worked as a physical actor with director Jorgen Leth and director/dancer Eske Holm.
Angelina Baldoz (composer) is a sound artist whose main instruments are electric bass, trumpet and vocals. She has performed internationally and collaborated for the past 20 years in the Northwest with many artists, including Deborah Hay, Lori Goldston and Ellen Fullman. Baldoz has scored numerous dance works and is the composer for the movement/sound company Salt Horse. She has worked extensively with the trumpet in the improvised music community as well as the contemporary dance scene in Seattle and, since picking up the electric bass, has studied with the legendary Carol Kaye and has toured Europe and America with the visionary rock band Earth. She currently plays bass and sings in Katahoula, a punk rock and roll blues band.
Beth Graczyk (choreographer) is a dance artist who works as a performer, choreographer, teacher and biochemist. Since 2001, Graczyk has performed throughout the states, including New York, Minneapolis, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Portland and Seattle, and internation-ally in Japan, Ecuador and France. In 2012-2013 Graczyk choreographed a version of John Cage’s STEPS in collaboration with musician Jarrad Powell and video artist Robert Campbell. Graczyk co-directs the performance company Salt Horse with Corrie Befort and Baldoz. Through her collaborative work she has received funding from Artist Trust, 4 Culture, Washington State Arts Commission and The National Endowment for the Arts. Beth currently works as a dancer for Mark Haim and Jody Kuehner. Graczyk is also a research scientist with eight science publications in the field of mitosis.
Allie Hankins (performer) is a choreographer, performer and researcher. A Seattle/Portland resident since 2008, she has presented work at On the Boards' Northwest New Works Festival, Velocity Dance Center, Conduit Dance and PICA’s TBA Festival in Portland, and various venues in Minneapolis, New York and abroad. As a collaborator, Hankins has performed with Seattle-based dance/sound performance company Salt Horse and Portland choreographer Tahni Holt, and has designed movement for the experimental theater ensemble Implied Violence (now Saint Genet). She was recently an artist in residence at the Robert Rauschenberg Residency in Captiva, Fla., and has received grants from Washington’s Artist Trust and Oregon’s Regional Arts & Culture Council.
Micki Skudlarczyk (visual artist) is a multimedia artist and educator living and working in Portland, Ore. Her work has been exhibited throughout the U.S. as well as Canada, Mexico and the Netherlands, where in 2009 she created installations within the Dutch landscape. Skudlarczyk was selected as an artist in residence at Fundacion Gruber, Jez (Cholul, Mexico, 2008) and LH Project (Joseph, Ore., 2007), and has been awarded fellowships and grants including a Lighton International Artists Exchange Program Grant from the Kansas City Artists Coalition and a Career Opportunity Grant from the Oregon Arts Commission. She received her Master of Fine Art from the University of Nebraska, Lincoln.
Steven Berardelli (visual artist) is an artist and independent designer in Tucson, Ariz. His art has been shown in exhibitions throughout the country and is included in private and public collections. He has designed for theater, museum exhibits and public art commissions.
Mark Ferrin (costume designer) has designed costumes for Mark Haim, Jessica Jobaris, Kate Wallich and Alice Gosti as well as stitched for productions of The Pacific Northwest Ballet, The Oregon Ballet Theatre and The San Francisco Ballet.
Amiya Brown (lighting designer) grew up in Santa Fe, N.M., where she was immersed in the study of dance and visual arts. She received her BA in Drama from University of the Incarnate Word and Master of Fine Arts degree in Theatrical Lighting Design from the University of Washington in 2010. She now works as a lighting designer, scenic designer and installation and visual artist. Some notable collaborators include Catherine Cabeen, Pat Graney, Alice Gosti, Kyle Loven, Beth Graczyk, Jen Salk, Tonya Lockyer, Amy O/Tiny Rage, Kate Wallich (The YC), Danielle Agami (Ate9), Amelia Reeber, Aiko Kinoshita, Umami, Seattle Dance Project, Book-it Repertory Theatre, Washington Ensemble Theatre, Cornerstone Theatre Company and Austin Shakespeare Company.
Corrie Befort (scenic designer) is a designer as well as dancer and choreographer, building costuming, scenography and graphics that both frame and engage the body. Beyond her own pieces and for Salt Horse, which she co-directs, she has designed recently for Mark Haim and soon with Jody Kuehner/Cherdonna. Befort's rigorously collaborative dance films and performance works have been presented and commissioned in the US and Japan.
* Photo credit - Corrie Befort, video still, June 2012
Angelina Baldoz (composer) is a sound artist whose main instruments are electric bass, trumpet and vocals. She has performed internationally and collaborated for the past 20 years in the Northwest with many artists, including Deborah Hay, Lori Goldston and Ellen Fullman. Baldoz has scored numerous dance works and is the composer for the movement/sound company Salt Horse. She has worked extensively with the trumpet in the improvised music community as well as the contemporary dance scene in Seattle and, since picking up the electric bass, has studied with the legendary Carol Kaye and has toured Europe and America with the visionary rock band Earth. She currently plays bass and sings in Katahoula, a punk rock and roll blues band.
Beth Graczyk (choreographer) is a dance artist who works as a performer, choreographer, teacher and biochemist. Since 2001, Graczyk has performed throughout the states, including New York, Minneapolis, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Portland and Seattle, and internation-ally in Japan, Ecuador and France. In 2012-2013 Graczyk choreographed a version of John Cage’s STEPS in collaboration with musician Jarrad Powell and video artist Robert Campbell. Graczyk co-directs the performance company Salt Horse with Corrie Befort and Baldoz. Through her collaborative work she has received funding from Artist Trust, 4 Culture, Washington State Arts Commission and The National Endowment for the Arts. Beth currently works as a dancer for Mark Haim and Jody Kuehner. Graczyk is also a research scientist with eight science publications in the field of mitosis.
Allie Hankins (performer) is a choreographer, performer and researcher. A Seattle/Portland resident since 2008, she has presented work at On the Boards' Northwest New Works Festival, Velocity Dance Center, Conduit Dance and PICA’s TBA Festival in Portland, and various venues in Minneapolis, New York and abroad. As a collaborator, Hankins has performed with Seattle-based dance/sound performance company Salt Horse and Portland choreographer Tahni Holt, and has designed movement for the experimental theater ensemble Implied Violence (now Saint Genet). She was recently an artist in residence at the Robert Rauschenberg Residency in Captiva, Fla., and has received grants from Washington’s Artist Trust and Oregon’s Regional Arts & Culture Council.
Micki Skudlarczyk (visual artist) is a multimedia artist and educator living and working in Portland, Ore. Her work has been exhibited throughout the U.S. as well as Canada, Mexico and the Netherlands, where in 2009 she created installations within the Dutch landscape. Skudlarczyk was selected as an artist in residence at Fundacion Gruber, Jez (Cholul, Mexico, 2008) and LH Project (Joseph, Ore., 2007), and has been awarded fellowships and grants including a Lighton International Artists Exchange Program Grant from the Kansas City Artists Coalition and a Career Opportunity Grant from the Oregon Arts Commission. She received her Master of Fine Art from the University of Nebraska, Lincoln.
Steven Berardelli (visual artist) is an artist and independent designer in Tucson, Ariz. His art has been shown in exhibitions throughout the country and is included in private and public collections. He has designed for theater, museum exhibits and public art commissions.
Mark Ferrin (costume designer) has designed costumes for Mark Haim, Jessica Jobaris, Kate Wallich and Alice Gosti as well as stitched for productions of The Pacific Northwest Ballet, The Oregon Ballet Theatre and The San Francisco Ballet.
Amiya Brown (lighting designer) grew up in Santa Fe, N.M., where she was immersed in the study of dance and visual arts. She received her BA in Drama from University of the Incarnate Word and Master of Fine Arts degree in Theatrical Lighting Design from the University of Washington in 2010. She now works as a lighting designer, scenic designer and installation and visual artist. Some notable collaborators include Catherine Cabeen, Pat Graney, Alice Gosti, Kyle Loven, Beth Graczyk, Jen Salk, Tonya Lockyer, Amy O/Tiny Rage, Kate Wallich (The YC), Danielle Agami (Ate9), Amelia Reeber, Aiko Kinoshita, Umami, Seattle Dance Project, Book-it Repertory Theatre, Washington Ensemble Theatre, Cornerstone Theatre Company and Austin Shakespeare Company.
Corrie Befort (scenic designer) is a designer as well as dancer and choreographer, building costuming, scenography and graphics that both frame and engage the body. Beyond her own pieces and for Salt Horse, which she co-directs, she has designed recently for Mark Haim and soon with Jody Kuehner/Cherdonna. Befort's rigorously collaborative dance films and performance works have been presented and commissioned in the US and Japan.
* Photo credit - Corrie Befort, video still, June 2012