Performers

Alice de Muizon has been dancing in Seattle for the past nine years and worked as an arts manager in the Seattle dance community from 1999-2006. In 2003, with Amelia Reeber, Ivory Smith and Eryn Young, Alice created the dance/voice group Foot in Mouth. Their last work, Last Seen, premiered at On the Boards, January 2005. Alice also collaborates with her husband/composer Paul Moore. Their current project can be seen online as Dancepod. She holds a BA in Dance from the University of Washington and a BA in Cultural Anthropology/Environmental Studies from UC Santa Barbara. Alice also works with Scott/Powell Performance as project manager. This is her fourth season with Scott/Powell Performance.

Beth Graczyk is a contemporary dancer and improviser based in Seattle, WA. She has worked extensively with Locate Performance Group (Pablo Cornejo, Paige Barnes) (2002-2006), Sheri Cohen & Co. (2000-2004), Corrie Befort (2003-present) and Scott/Powell Performance (2004-present). Outside of Seattle she has performed in Portland, San Francisco, Philadelphia, Minneapolis, New York, Ecuador and Japan. Beth is currently collaborating with dancer Corrie Befort and musicians Jason E Anderson and Angelina Baldoz in the development Salt Horse, an evening length dance/music piece. Beth earned a double degree from the University of Washington in Dance and Molecular Biology. She is a published science author and has worked for the past 5 years doing biochemistry research.

Mikhail Kaschock has been moving for many years. He spent his early years in Pennsylvania dancing ballet with his brother and sisters.  From there, he left for The Ohio State University's dance department and earned a BFA in Dance Performance. Misha then moved to Chicago, where he danced with a number of modern companies. After two years in Chicago, he moved to Seattle; there he auditioned for and was invited to join MSS/JPP. This is his third season with Scott/Powell Performance.

Jim Kent started dancing in 2000 and has worked with a number of local choreographers since moving to Seattle in 2002. He graduated in 2005 with a BFA in Dance from Cornish College of the Arts. Recent projects include the re-working of Mark Haim's The Goldberg Variations at OtB, Wade Madsen's The Elements at Broadway Performance Hall, and most recently, he revisited his musical theater roots at Arkansas Repertory Theater by appearing in their main stage production of The King and I. Jim plays piano accompaniment for preparatory and R.A.D. ballet classes at Cornish. This is his first season with Scott/Powell Performance.

Jess Klein studied at Reed College and the London Contemporary Dance School before graduating from Cornish College of the Arts with a BFA in Dance. She has danced professionally in the Seattle area for the past seven years, including work with LeGendre Performance Group, Crispin Spaeth Dance Group, The Seattle Opera, Pat Graney Company, SOM Performance and Deborah Wolf. This is her fourth season with Scott/Powell Performance. Jess is a founding member of FANKICK! - a dynamic pop art duo exploring 80's dance on the city streets with vibrant tongue in cheek humor. Jess teaches art, movement, and yoga at the Bertschi School, an independent elementary. She most recently completed her yoga teacher training through Shiva Rea and studies regularly at Samadhi Yoga.

Sean Ryan’s performances include Ghostdance with Paula Josa-Jones/Performanceworks at Lincoln Center Out-Of-Doors and Pauline Oliveros’ retrospective at Lincoln Center. Other dance credits include work by/with VIA/Tonya Lockyer (touring internationally), Sheri Cohen, ROOM ensemble, Laura Curry, John Dixon, Stuart Dempster, Graphicality, Peter Schmitz, Stephanie Skura and, recently, Mark Haim’s Goldberg Variations at On the Boards in Seattle. Sean is a core member of The Gravity Project, a resident experimental theater company at Juniata College in PA, which recently premiered Nine Gates in January 2006. He recently directed Allen Johnson’s Another You, awarded a N.P.N. Co-Commissioning Grant, premiering to much acclaim at PICA’s T:BA Festival & On the Boards. The work will tour Europe in the fall and open in NYC with Under The Radar in January ‘07. Sean is the Regional Programs Coordinator at On the Boards, & a board member of Rain City Projects, a non-profit dedicated to supporting Northwest Playwrights. This is his second season with Scott/Powell Performance.

Ellie Sandstrom has been performing for over 20 years. She is originally from Minneapolis, where she began her movement training with Minnesota Dance Theater and later, BalletArts MN. She has studied various forms of dance technique, body conditioning, choreography and improvisation throughout her life at many festivals and schools across the US. She is a graduate of Cornish College of the Arts, where she received her BFA in dance. She has been working in Seattle, consistently with Scott/Powell Performance and LOCUST since 2000, and touring nationally with both companies since 2005. She has been known to bring many other projects into the mix, including working with Mark Haim on the remounting of his Goldberg Variations at On the Boards in 2006. She teaches Modern technique at Velocity Dance Center, Hip Hop (w/history) at the Northwest School, and Ballet wherever and whenever she can. She is entering her eighth season with Scott/Powell Performance.