Description of the talk: 

In this talk, choreographer Miguel Gutierrez will discuss the development of his work over several decades. Starting from his introduction to dance in New Jersey as the child of immigrants, he will discuss key moments of influence on his artistic point of view, the relationship of politics to art making, the many branches of his artistic practice, and what led him to create the piece he is presenting at American Dance Festival.

Bio

Miguel Gutierrez (he/him) is an artist and educator living between Lenapehoking/Brooklyn, NY, and Tovaangar/Los Angeles. His work continues and expands the legacy of experimental QTPOC artists and creates empathetic, irreverent, and reflective spaces that prioritize attention as a means to unravel normative belief systems. He is also fascinated by how capital interacts with art making, a topic he explored in his podcast Are You For Sale? Recent performance work includes Super Nothing, a dance blueprint for queer survival developed as the Randjelović/Stryker Resident Commissioned Artist at New York Live Arts, and a music project called sueño, which premiered in 2022 at the High Line Festival. His work has been presented internationally for over twenty years in venues such as Festival D’Automne in Paris, On the Boards, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Festival Universitario in Colombia, and as a selected artist in the 2014 Whitney Biennial. He is a Guggenheim Fellow, a United States Artists Fellow, and a recipient of a Foundation for Contemporary Art award, a 2016 Doris Duke Artist Award, a 2016 Frankie Award, and four New York Dance and Performance “Bessie” Awards. He has received project support multiple times through the National Performance Network, MAP Fund, and the New England Foundation for the Arts’ National Dance Project. He is an Associate Professor of Choreography in the Department of World Arts and Cultures/Dance at UCLA. www.miguelgutierrez.org