SUNDAY, JANUARY 28, 2018
“… politics is activity already in motion. It does not await ignition.” —Randy Martin
i’m sitting on my aura // WORKSHOP WITH MIGUEL GUTIERREZ
We make by doing. We perform as we make a performance. What if everything we need to make a compelling performance is already in or around us? Let’s harness immediacy, mystery, relevance, irreverence and import. Let’s create experiences that are definitive and unstable. This workshop is a moving think tank. Choreography can be a framework for deploying difference in a time of increasing anxiety. If work is to be political now what was it before? Are we foolish for still being inspired by performance? I like dancing. I like it a lot. We become beautiful in the process of performing but beautiful is not enough. I want to hold all of us. I want the differences held. Do you care to join? It is all too much.
PERFORMANCE MAKERS OF ALL DISCIPLINES WELCOME
Come in comfortable clothing, prepared to move.
3–6PM // WE LIVE IN SPACE
2520 W Jefferson Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90018
// REGISTER NOW //
$30 advance / $40 at door
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Made possible with generous funding from the Western States Arts Federation (WESTAF), California Arts Council, and the National Endowment for the Arts.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Miguel Gutierrez lives in Brooklyn, NY. He creates dance based performances, music and poetry. His work has been presented at Centre National de Danse/Pantin, Centre Pompidou, Kampnagel, ImPulsTanz, Philly Live Arts, Walker Art Center, TBA/PICA, MCA Chicago, ICA Boston, New York Live Arts, Live Arts Bard, AMERICAN REALNESS, the 2014 Whitney Biennial and many other festivals and venues. He has received support from Creative Capital, MAP, National Dance Project, Jerome Foundation, New York Foundation for the Arts and the Tides Foundation. He is a 2010 Guggenheim Fellow, United States Artist Fellow, and award recipient from Foundation for Contemporary Art. He is a 2016 Doris Duke Artist. He has received four New York Dance and Performance Bessie Awards. His recent work includes a commission for Ballet de Lorraine in Nancy, France, called Cela nous concerne tous (This concerns all of us), which was inspired by the events of May 1968 in France. He has created music for several of his works, for choreographer Antonio Ramos, and in collaboration with Colin Self for Jen Rosenblit and Simone Aughterlony’s Everything Fits In The Room. He has performed as a singer with Anohni, Justin Vivian Bond, Vincent Segal, and Holcombe Waller, has a music duo with Nick Hallett called Nudity in Dance, and he recently launched a project called SADONNA, sad versions of Madonna songs. He invented DEEP AEROBICS and he is a Feldenkrais Method® practitioner. He is the program director for LANDING, a new educational initiative at Gibney Dance Center. His book WHEN YOU RISE UP is available from 53rd State Press.
