Beth Graczyk is a choreographer, director, performer, educator and scientist based in Brooklyn/Lenapehoking whose 22-year career as a creative maker and scientist has allowed her to cultivate a unique perspective. Her work is rigorously rooted in improvisation integrating codified forms of dance from post-modern, modern, somatic, and physical theater modalities. She is the Artistic Director of Beth Graczyk Productions, Inc. (BGP) a national nonprofit based in NYC which creates intersections in arts and science through contemporary dance-based projects celebrating LGBTQIA+ and neurodiverse communities. Since 2002, Graczyk has performed throughout the US and in Japan, Ecuador, France, China, and India, and in NYC and her work has been presented by Velocity Dance Center, Gibney, La Mama, Jack, CPR, and Movement Research amongst others. In 2019/2020, Graczyk directed an ensemble work in collaboration with composer Aaron Gabriel engaging with LGBTQIA+ artists with disabilities that was shared at the Walker Arts Center and featured in Critical Correspondence. Since 2019, she is Faculty for the NYC Peridance Certification Program where she teaches improvisation. Concurrently, Graczyk is an author on 10 science publications and received a 2020 Pilot Award from Rockefeller University with collaborator & neuroscientist Guadalupe Astorga for research on visual perception and neurodiversity. Graczyk co-directed the performance company Salt Horse in Seattle from 2008-2016 where they received funding from 4 Culture, Artist Trust, Washington State Arts Commission, NEA, and commissions including City of Seattle, Northwest Film Forum, and Cornish. She has had many ongoing collaborations with artists including John Maria Gutierrez (G^2), Aaron Gabriel, Amy Chavasse, Torben Ulrich, and has danced for Sara Shelton Mann, Mark Haim, Raja Kelly, Molly Scott amongst others. @bethgraczyk, bethgraczyk.com, bethgraczykproductions.com,