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"Meditative, enigmatic, and haunting . . . closed out the weekend to shouting applause." - Brendan Kiley, The Stranger, Seattle
“Look out especially for renegade Seattle group Salt Horse, which walks the line between dance and performance art with unsettling tableaux choreographed to original, semi-melodious soundscapes.” - Lauren Friedman, Philadelphia City Paper
"Imagistic dance-theater works in which reality and fantasy collide and cooperate” - Rita Felciano, San Francisco Bay Guardian
"The work leaves us in a state of dark disquietude that’s also a state of grace— the effect of having witnessed something so weird and beautiful.” – Jonathan M. Stein, Philadelphia Broad Street Review
"Implied a dream narrative - unbalanced, yet never faltering in its secretive arc, amusing . . . and finally, shocking as one dancer covered head to foot in matted hair, throws herself prostrate in the middle of the audience. If she sought mercy, she got that in the form of explosive applause.” - Merilyn Jackson, The Philadelphia Inquirer
“intense and beautiful" - Jean Lenihan, Seattle Times
“Some of the festival's most charming moments were "performed" by props or ghosts. The pair of shoes that seemed to walk on their own, following Beth Graczyk in Salt Horse's Man on the Beach, were a poignant suggestion of a missing person.”
- Sandi Kurtz, Seattle Weekly
"A gorgeous score by Baldoz creates a cinematic container for the work." - Tonya Lockyer, Seattle artist and blogger
“Watching Beth Graczyk and Corrie Befort in Salt Horse is like listening to two distinct voices singing together, sometimes hitting the same note, sometimes harmonizing, something going wildly discordant---but always deeply attuned to each other, knowing when to be in synch and when to clash. The movement itself---sometimes graceful and liquid, sometimes skittish and jangled---engages the audience, but it's the interplay of their bodies, something as impossible to describe as the air between their flashing limbs, that is the true subject of this marvelous dance. Layer on top of that the actual voice and music of Angelina Baldoz, who glides between ambiance and naked, vibrating emotion, and you have a truly unique and inimitable dance: Spare and full, speckled with odd images and perverse costumes, but at its most essential when Graczyk and Befort are simply negotiating sharing the same space.” - Bret Fetzer, Seattle Critic
"In the multiple-choice world of dance categories, Salt Horse would fall under "none of the above." Full of images as disjointed and unrelated as the title itself, the whole of the piece still has an organic unity, a kind of inevitable chaos. Choreographers and dancers Corrie Befort and Beth Graczyk, in collaboration with composer Angelina Baldoz, have made a specific little world full of spasmic activity and exquisite stillness." - Sandra Kurtz, Seattle Weekly
“Salt Horse was tantalizing and unexplainable in the same moment. There was firm directorial guidance and no guidance simultaneously. The performers inhabited a world where a very different logic pertained and those unexpected moments of compelling logic gave me a weird sort of vertigo, turning my inner ear on end and my imagination spinning. It was startlingly funny, terrifying, disorienting and full of an unnamed grief and longing that was visceral and deeply moving for me.”
- Emily Stone, Seattle/Portland-based artist
“Salt Horse is a collective & a performance: simultaneously mythic and intensely personal. Befort and Graczyk's idiosyncratic, densely repetitive choreography blends instinct, will, vitality and frailty. The whole enterprise has a raw, handmade quality. At it's best, Salt Horse is a dreamlike fairy tale where women struggle from an over-abundance; caught in webs of their own hair, dragging long sculpted arms, balancing motionless in cathorni as composer Angelina Baldoz's live score oscillates between incantation and a weather system.” - Tonya Lockyer, Seattle-based artist and blogger
"With every moment fulfilled, Salt Horse was a gift to Time. Strangely and powerfully engaging. If I were Time, I would be gratified watching myself be spent in the creation of Salt Horse. As a viewer, I felt like a student of Timothy Leary; Salt Horse opened the subconscious province of human continuation. Befort, Baldoz and Graczyk took us to indefinable and secret/abstruse ways of being." - Jessica Jobaris, corpuscorpus movement association, Seattle/Berlin
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Photo: Tim Summers
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