September 4, 2007

Interview with Choreographer Miguel Gutierrez

Somewhere in the middle of my interview with Bessie Award-winning choreographer Miguel Gutierrez, I realized that I could listen to him talk forever. (I've had that feeling about watching his dances, too!) Even after we wrapped up our recording, we kept talking, and he never ran out of interesting and vital things to say about art, community and the often sorry state of discourse on dance. I definitely want to talk with Miguel again, and I'm delighted to share with you today some insight into his life and work.

Listen to interview with Miguel Gutierrez (MP3 - 47 minutes)

Miguel Gutierrez is a dance and music artist from Brooklyn, NY who has created several evenings of work: enter the seen (2002), I succumb (2003), dAMNATION rOAD (2004), Retrospective Exhibitionist and Difficult Bodies (2005) myendlesslove (2006) and Everyone (2007). His emotionally-driven work concerns itself with the phenomenon of existence and the body's ability to move between the mundane and the transcendent. He is interested in how the presence of the audience creates a space of attention and extraordinary perception. His work has been presented in venues such as Dance Theater Workshop (New York), ImPulsTanz (Vienna) and the Springdance Festival (Utrecht). He recently created a new work entitled I HATE OUTSIDE for BalletLab, a Melbourne, Australia based company. Miguel worked as a curator for The Kitchen's Dance and Process program, and the infamous but now defunct SHTUDIO SHOW. He has worked with a wide variety of contemporary dance artists, such as John Jasperse, Jennifer Lacey, Jennifer Monson, Ann Liv Young and Deborah Hay. He is currently working with Alain Buffard. He teaches workshops in technique, composition and creative process around the world.

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