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Kara Beadle
Kara Beadle is a performance/movement artist, dance educator, and massage therapist based in Seattle, WA. Having studied postmodern techniques, improvisational dance, and site-specific performance at Texas Woman’s University from artists such as Jordan Fuchs, Sarah Gamblin, and Rosemary Candelario, Kara continues to investigate and challenge the values of improvisation, time, and setting in their own choreography and performance. A freelance artist, Kara has performed with LanDForms Dance, Hope Goldman, Vladimir Kremenović, Jordan Macintosh-Hougham, and Gender Tender in festivals such as On The Boards’ NW New Works, Velocity Dance Center’s Next Fest, and Portland’s Risk/Reward. Part of the performance art collective, Heap, Kara’s work alongside artistic partner Andy Zacek investigates the intimacy of space and objects in their time spent with audiences. Often seen gathering discarded items on the side of the road, or tumbling through them, Heap finds stages in street corner dumps, the dredges of a garage sale, and in your living room. Together with a rotating cast of collaborators, their work examines our houses as landfills through the themes of waste, displacement, resourcefulness, and objectifying intimacy. In Jan 2020 Heap premiered the work Fruit Flies in eXitSPACE Faculty Concert, and performed at two other venues the following month.Browse all performers