Workshops & Community Classes

SUMMER

Workshops, Masterclasses,
& Community Classes

Follow Your Dreams: an art/lecture

by Miguel Gutierrez
Sunday, July 6
7:15 pm–8:15 pm
FREE
About the Lecture

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.

About Miguel Gutierrez

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

Into the Weirdness

with Miguel Gutierrez
Monday, July 7
5:00 pm–6:30 pm
$15 drop-in
About the Workshop

In this workshop we tap into “uncanny” relationships of self to other, time, and space. We find ways to identify the strangeness that is always present but so often repressed. Dance is a way to uncover and express desires, excess feelings, and the multiplicity we all hold. These exercises reflect approaches I use in my work, and they also serve as practices to negotiate what it is to be in a room of individuals together—or as Jean Luc Nancy famously put it— “the singular plural.”

About Miguel Gutierrez

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

Masterclass with Alonzo King LINES Ballet

with TBA
Thursday, July 17
3:15 pm–4:45 pm
$15 drop-in
About the Class

The masterclass will begin with a ballet-based warm-up, designed to build strength, alignment, and fluidity. Dancers will then dive into choreography and movement exploration, giving them a firsthand experience of LINES’s signature style, where classical technique meets bold contemporary expression, musicality, and deeply human storytelling.

ADF Scripps Studios building

Samuel H. Scripps Studios

721 Broad Street
Durham, NC 27705

919-797-2871
studios@americandancefestival.org

We are located on the second floor, accessible by elevator or stairs. There is ample free parking (including two handicap parking spots) in the lot connected to our building.