Review: At Jacob’s Pillow, Miguel Gutierrez invites the audience to join in grief, and in silliness
By Sarah Knight
The Boston Globe, July 19, 2024
”While Gutierrez’s work may seem odd to a Jacob’s Pillow audience more familiar with conventional dance, he expertly guides the crowd, showing them how best to receive his work.”
Review: Touch Point
By Violet Handforth
Superstarts Only Magazine
Summer 2023
”This was the beginning of a sense of rapture, and Miguel Gutierrez’s piece that followed created a feeling in me of total ecstasy that has not really left me since.”
Review: IMPRESSIONS: Miguel Gutierrez’s “I as another” at Baryshnikov Arts Center”
By Sarah Cecilia Bukowski
The Dance Enthusiast
Posted May 16, 2023
”Miguel Gutierrez doesn’t just make dances. He makes problems. Or rather, he gives problems shape and voice, shedding light on complexity and resistance where clarity and ease cannot be found. He has no essential truths to reveal, no lessons to impart, no cliches to reinforce; and it is this frank confrontation with the unknown that renders his work both affably opaque and unpredictably moving.”
Feature: Boom Times for Miguel Gutierrez, an Artist of Ordered Excess
By Siobhan Burke
The New York Times
Posted April 13, 2023
”Over six weeks this spring, in an alignment of plans that he likens to “some bizarre astrological event,” three of Gutierrez’s pieces will be presented at three New York City theaters: “Cela Nous Concerne Tous (This Concerns All of Us),” for 25 dancers of Ballet de Lorraine, April 21 and 22 at N.Y.U. Skirball; “I as another,” a new duet with the dancer Laila J. Franklin, May 4-7 at Baryshnikov Arts Center; and “Variations on Themes From Lost and Found: Scenes From a Life and Other Works by John Bernd,” a revival of a 2016 collaboration with the choreographer Ishmael Houston-Jones and the composer Nick Hallett, May 25-June 3 at Danspace Project.”
Feature: Miguel Gutierrez Awarded Live Arts Residency
By Rachel Sherman
The New York Times
Posted January 13, 2023
”The choreographer Miguel Gutierrez is the next recipient of New York Live Arts’ biennial residency award, the organization announced on Friday. The award, the Randjelovic/Stryker Resident Commissioned Artist, is notable for the breadth of its creative and financial support, which includes a fully produced production and office space, as well as two years of full-time salary and health care benefits.”
Review: First Words - The Poetry Project’s New Year’s tradition perseveres
By Jess Barbagallo
Artforum
Posted January 4, 2022
”Miguel moved around the room invoking a fairy-kissed scene cut from a Fassbinder film, the queeny touch of a Cabaret poster hanging above the chaise. As his impishly blasé lover flipped through that book—he appeared nude—the ASL interpreter watched in blissful repose, and I delighted after the sparkly thoughts in her mind.”
Podcast Interview: A Chosen Family Farewell: Gone with Miguel Gutierrez
by Tranna Wintour and Thomas LeBlanc
CBC Podcasts
Posted December 23, 2021
”It’s with a heavy heart and sense of pride that we bid you, dear listeners, farewell. Yes, this is the series finale of Chosen Family, but we’re not leaving without one last soulful, deep conversation. Joining us for this bittersweet episode is the brilliant Miguel Gutierrez, New York-based choreographer, composer, performer, singer, writer, educator and one of our favourite people…”
Television Interview: Articulate TV - Miguel Gutierrez: Age & Beauty
by Articulate TV
Posted December 13, 2021
”Witnessing his own development with a watchful eye has kept highflying choreographer Miguel Gutierrez grounded.”
Television Interview: First Person PBS - Reimagining the Dance World as a Queer Space
by First Person PBS
Posted November 24, 2021
”To an outsider, the world of concert dance can be seen as a refuge for LGBT+ youth, but due to centuries-old traditions and rigid institutions, many dancers' experiences are anything but that. Dancer Garen Scribner and choreographer Miguel Gutierrez compare experiences coming of age in dance academies and talk about what needs to happen for those institutions to adapt to the 21st century.”
Interview: Frank Conversations About Making a Living in Dance
by Siobhan Burke
The New York Times, September 7, 2021
”That precariousness — why it exists, particularly in the United States, and how artists might move beyond it — is one concern of “Are You for Sale?,” a nine-episode series that examines, in Gutierrez’s words, “the ethical entanglements between art and money….” With a frankness often missing from conversations about money in the arts, Gutierrez and his guests venture into topics like the origins of philanthropy; the pros and cons of government funding for dance; and his own economic quagmires as an artist.”
Radio Interview: WMPG - In the Arts
by Shoni Currier
Posted August 19, 2021
I was interviewed about my new podcast by Shoni Currier, director of the Bates Dance Festival.
Article: Using the Wisdom of Dance to Find Our Way Back to Our Bodies
by Gia Kourlas
New York Times, August 7, 2021
”In a procession led by Gutierrez at Teardrop Park in Lower Manhattan, it was about thinking about the land we were walking on; it was also about slowing down and seeing.”
Interview: ThinkingDance.net - Ethics in Art and Money
by Emilee Lord
Posted July 31, 2021
”Philanthropy and the inequitable way funding is handled in this country, is the subject of a new podcast from Miguel Gutierrez set to premiere August 9th. I sat down with its creator and producer on Zoom to discuss how this came about and what to expect from the series.”
Podcast: FUSE, Bomb Magazine: Conversation between Miguel Gutierrez and Gabrielle Civil
Posted June 8, 2021
”For this episode, we asked choreographer Miguel Gutierrez which artist he’d most like to speak with, and, without hesitation, he selected performance artist and writer Gabrielle Civil. Over the phone, Miguel and Gabrielle discuss their paths to artistic success, the pressures of first-generation exceptionalism, and the time Miguel memorized the choreography to The Nutcracker as a ten-year-old.”
Bear in the Park - a new video for the 3 Minutes Moving Project
I was asked by Cid Pearlman to contribute something for UCSC’s Online Education 3 Minutes Moving (3MM) Project. 3MM provides easy access to physical engagement with three-minute movement experiences presented by master teachers in dance, martial arts, and contemplative movement practices. These practices are for every body; no previous movement training is needed. 3MM is a project of UCSC Online Education in collaboration with the Dance Faculty of UCSC’s Theater Arts Department, with support from Porter College and the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History.
Interview: Miguel Gutierrez On Performance, Presidents, and Becoming Teachable
by Jhaleh Akhavan
Mashup Americans
When you are a performer, do you ever feel like you must perform yourself? Miguel Gutierrez (he/him) is a multidisciplinary performance artist, educator and arts advocate. Miguel’s works include This Bridge Called My Ass, a piece that bends tropes of Latinidad to identify new relationships to content and form, a book titled WHEN YOU RISE UP available through 53rd State Press, and numerous essays, including “Does Abstraction Belong to White People,” published on Bomb’s website. He also performs sad versions of upbeat Madonna songs in his music performance project SADONNA. Miguel sat down with Mash-Up Americans to talk about vulnerability as a director and experimental artist, what he would choose for a national monument, and accepting that he’s not Nicki Minaj.
Podcast: Death, Sex & Money - Miguel Gutierrez’s Strongly Worded Emails About Art and Money
Posted November 25, 2020
This past March, choreographer Miguel Gutierrez posted a call on his Instagram. It asked performing arts institutions to honor their commitments to artists like him, who were no longer able to perform publicly because of the pandemic. "The first thing I noticed was all the cancellation emails and their complete, uh, lack of acknowledgement of a financial component," Miguel told me. "Like, you have the money in your budget, right? So pay me." While Miguel wanted to make sure he was compensated for his work, he also told me that he's been reexamining his relationship to performing. "There's a whole other part of me that’s like, do I ever want to tour again, actually?" he told me. "I actually crave certain kinds of normalcy that are just part of other people's lives." We talked about the years it took for him to learn how to manage his finances as someone living gig-to-gig, how getting sober helped him get out of years of debt, and how he was able to make ends meet this year.
Online interview: Chat with Bellaluz Gutierrez de la Torre from Danza Común - Colombian Dance Company
Posted October 21, 2020
Podcast: MLVC: The Madonna Podcast - Interview with Miguel about SADONNA
Posted October 1, 2020
MLVC: the Madonna Podcast is the place for all things Madonna Louise Veronica Ciccone. Hosted by Tony Trius & Stefan Mreczko, each episode features an in-depth look at a different aspect of the Queen of Pop’s iconic career. We discuss everything from music, videos, movies & tours, and through various interviews, also take a look at her profound and lasting influence in popular culture and to her millions of fans around the world.
Panel Discussion: REAL TALK!
Posted May 14, 2020
A guided response to Creating New Futures: Working Guidelines for Ethics & Equity in Presenting Dance & Performance, a tentatively-titled, living document-in-progress.
Recording: Does Abstraction Belong to White People? - Panel discussion at Wexner Art Center
Posted on January 23, 2020
Video recording of a panel discussion with Miguel Gutierrez, Guisela Latorre, Shannon Winnubst, Nadine George-Graves responding to Gutierrez’s essay “does abstraction belong to white people.” Discussion moderated by Joni Boyd-Acuff
Podcast: Dance Behind The Screen: Knowbox Dance interview with Miguel Gutierrez
Released January 22, 2020
Review: A Review as Queer as the Work - Taja Will on Miguel Gutierrez’s This Bridge Called My Ass
Walker Art Center’s website, January 17, 2020
”Bridge illustrates non-monolithic Latinx identity through saturated stereotyping. It’s cunning, it’s perhaps messy, a vulgar reclamation of the historical sexualization of Latinx bodies, si mami, gracias papi.”
Review: No getting off at ‘This Bridge Called My Ass,’ but you’ll want to stay on it
By Jay Gabler
City Pages, January 17, 2020
”When you cross This Bridge Called My Ass, you entirely give yourself over to a gifted ensemble for a carefully-honed performance that has them throwing themselves — and pulling you — into a world of silly-serious sensual chaos with what seems to be utter abandon.”
Review: Tiempos Desmadrosos: Dancing Latinidad to the beat of Grief (FLACC 2019)
By José Alfaro
Queequeg’s Left, posted December 17, 2019
"While I am not claiming that Miguel’s father is like my father, or that all Latinx fathers are the same, I firmly believe that many of us queer Latinxs are often left asking, in the space of this queer Latinx performance, how our fathers have theorized our difference.”
Interview: Brontez Purnell in Conversation with Miguel Gutierrez
Evergreen Review, December 2019
Podcast: She’s A Talker — Neil Goldberg interviews Miguel Gutierrez
Released December 13, 2019
Podcast: American Chameleon - Jaamil Kosoko interviews Miguel Gutierrez
Released Fall 2019
Review: Miguel Gutierrez’s This Bridge Called My Ass Seeks To Destroy the Relationship between Bodies and Objects
By Andrew Jankowski
Portland Mercury, September 8, 2019
”…My Ass has a lot to say about the weariness of building impermanent connections, borders, and boundaries”
Review: Impressions: Miguel Gutierrez’s This Bridge Called My Ass presented at The Chocolate Factory as part of American Realness
By Theo Boguszewski
Dance Enthusiast, February 5, 2019
”The piece is rousing, hilarious, and utterly absurd, challenging my understanding of how I experience art, as both a writer and observer.”
Review: ‘This Bridge’ Is an Ambitious New Work
By Siobhan Burke
The New York Times, January 10, 2019
"One joy of ‘This Bridge Called My Ass’ — a dense, audacious and wickedly funny work that had its premiere as part of the American Realness festival — is the way that question evades any simple, stable answer."
Preview: A Choreographer Gives In to His Ambition of Recklessness
By Gia Kourlas
The New York Times, January 4, 2019
"At times, it really does feel like a bridge is being built and torn down over and over again. All the while, the dancers show their skin, their flesh, their sweat."
Review: Cela nous concerne tous - Miguel Gutierrez - Creation à Nancy
By Gerard Mayen
Ballroom Revue, November 23, 2017
"De deux mois de travail en commun, individuel et collectif, est sorti un ballet éclatant, réjouissant à voir, subti dans sa progression, inattaquable sur le plan de l’originalité." From two months of individual and collective work together came out a brilliant ballet, joyful to see, subtle in its progression, unassailable on the level of originality.
MG interviewed for Marc Kate's podcast WHY WE LISTEN
Released Fall 2016
Review: AGE & BEAUTY, parts 1 & 2 (Miguel Gutierrez/ FringeArts): Choreographing the harsh realities of being a working artist
By Brendan Tetsuo
Phindie, November 19, 2015
"This brilliant dichotomy of performance polarizes our attention creating a platform of decision making that is both incredibly frustrating and a harsh realization of the world we live in."
Review: "Deep South"
By Carrie Sideman
Herald-Tribune, November 7th, 2015
"Gutierrez dancing free-form under the light of a street lamp outside a Merle Norman cosmetics boutique; a soft piano accompaniment as the green of a Southern landscape is gradually obscured by a rainstorm…"
Review: The Evolution of the Queer Dancer
By Jaime Shearn Coan
The Brooklyn Rail, November 5th, 2015
"I’m not sure how to write about Gutierrez’s work: I don’t want to come across as fawning or condescending. It’s been three weeks since I attended his marathon performance at Bard—I still have a spot of pink polish on my left thumb."
Review: Queer Bodies, Obedience, and Aging in Crossing the Line Festival
By Paul David Young
Hyperallergic, October 17th, 2015
"Miguel Gutierrez is nominally a dancer and choreographer, though his three-part epic, Age and Beauty, which was presented at New York Live Arts, frequently looks and sounds like theater."
Review: In ‘Age & Beauty,’ Miguel Gutierrez Ponders the Personal and the Professional
By Gia Kourlas
The New York Times, September 20th, 2015
"Describing the project, he writes: 'We cling to our youth, get mad that it’s over and then infuse what we do with the brilliance, love and anger about that.' You don’t have to be an artist to relate: 'Age & Beauty' is about life."
Review: Miguel Gutierrez’s Deep Questions in ‘Age & Beauty Part 3’
By Gia Kourlas
The New York Times, September 17th, 2015
"Despite a scene in which the cast frolics on the gels as if they were autumn leaves — it’s too much like playtime — there’s an ancient and methodical drive to this affecting piece. During a recorded loop of “Do you worry about the future?” the dancers glide in and out of formations while lightly clapping their hands. It feels like worship."
Review: From the Prosaic, Evoking a Sadness Under the Surface
By Brian Seibert
The New York Times, January 13th, 2015
"The choreographer participates in its typically fun and clever songs, but he gives the spotlight to Ms. Boulé and his longtime lighting designer, Lenore Doxsee. The big diva moment goes to Mr. Pryor."
Review: AMERICAN REALNESS: Move You/Move Me
By Jaime Shearn Coan
The Brooklyn Rail, February 5th, 2015
"This decentering of the choreographer is a fitting gesture for a piece that attempts to deconstruct the myth of the muse ... as well as to expose the working conditions and relationships between Gutierrez and Ben Pryor (his manager and the founder and producer of American Realness)."
Review: Who’s Afraid of the Old, Gay Dancer?
By Brian Schaefer
Out Magazine, April 25, 2014
"When it comes to respecting our elders, society is shamefully dismissive. In the case of the gay community, this is doubly rotten since our forbearers bravely bushwhacked the social jungle on our behalf."
Review: Mixing and Matching Youth and Middle Age, and Sequins and Tulle
By Brian Seibert
The New York Times, April 25, 2014
"He sang. He sang into a microphone, wearing a dress of tulle, in a kind of defiant karaoke fantasy, but more than that, he made his material sing, transmuting it into emotional expression."
Review: The Melancholy Effects of Growing Older in Gay Culture
By Gia Kourlas
The New York Times, October 10, 2013
"In a way, 'myendlesslove' can be seen as a companion piece. Created for a producer who wanted Mr. Gutierrez to choreograph a work using video, 'myendlesslove' is another personal excavation, this time inspired by a terrible breakup."
TBA Diaries: Miguel Gutierrez and the Powerful People, And lose the name of action
By Rebecca Jacobson
Willamette Week, September 19, 2013
"Using his father's neurological problems as a launching pad, Gutierrez has created a piece that purports to explore the mind-body connection or, rather, the mind-body disconnection."
The Knife’s Live Shows Are Going to Be Weird as Hell
By Kyle McGovern
SPIN, April 22, 2013
"A handful of the band’s European gigs will begin with DEEP Aerobics (short for 'Death Electro Emo Protest Aerobics'), which the post describes as 'a workout form invented and shamelessly disseminated by Miguel Gutierrez, who hopes to soon destroy the technique, because it’s just too hard to teach, and really the world is going to hell in a hand basket anyway.'"
Miguel Gutierrez explores perception at MCA
By Sid Smith
Chicago Tribune, February 1st, 2013
"Rich, complex ideas lie behind 'And lose the name of action,' a dance-theater and multimedia piece exploring perception and how it's not completely ruled by the brain, but intertwined with the body and its interaction with the environment."
Review: Celebrating the Unorthodox With Startling Footwork and Incessant Talk
By Alastair Macaulay
The New York Times, January 22nd, 2013
"One of these, the dancer-choreographer Miguel Gutierrez’s 50-minute 'Storing the Winter,' which I saw on Friday, proved to be my best discovery of the festival. This solo was danced to the live music of Mind Over Mirrors, also known as Jaime Fennelly, a one-man composer-player whose sound combines the harmonium with electronics."
Review: Miguel Gutierrez's Ghostly Meanings
By Andrew Boynton
The New Yorker, December 16th, 2012
"Drawing meaning from a dance work that is to a large extent about meaning and perception is a tricky proposition; indeed, many people considered the piece indulgent and dense. But I found it to be an ambitious, engrossing rendering of the choreographer’s investigations."
Review: ‘And lose the name of action' at BAM
By Alastair Macaulay
The New York Times, December 5th, 2012
"Miguel Gutierrez’s 'And lose the name of action' seeks to demonstrate facets of a mind that has come apart."
Michelle Boule, Dancer-Artist at Work
By Claudia La Rocco
The New York Times, November 23, 2012
"For the past 12 years [Ms. Boulé] has been chiefly associated with Miguel Gutierrez, anchoring many of his expansive, ambitious dances. Her resonant channeling of James Dean in his 'Last Meadow' earned her a 2010 Bessie award."
Dance, Senses, and Distrust of the Body: A Frank Talk with Miguel Gutierrez
By Miguel Gutierrez as told to Michele Steinwald
Walker Art Center Magazine, September 7, 2012
"Not having an instant understanding is not a liability of dance—it’s actually this kind of anti-capitalist thing that’s built into the temporality of the form. You want this work to say “blah” to you right away. But it’s a time-based form, and it doesn’t work like that. It just isn’t going to deliver to you."
Miguel Gutierrez
By Ishmael Houston-Jones
Bomb Magazine, Fall 2012
"Last year Miguel asked me to perform in 'And lose the name of action,' which is still in progress. When I asked him why he wanted to work with me, he responded that he was tired of seeing older choreographers scoring for and dancing alongside “skinny white girls in their twenties.” Since I fit none of those criteria I guess I was a shoo-in. "
Dance Listings for Dec. 7-13
By Siobhan Burke
The New York Times, December 7, 2012
"Mr. Gutierrez’s work tends to unfold with bracing, almost destabilizing momentum, but even after that subsides, his potent images have a way of persisting in the mind."
Spinning, Leaping, Lunging, Tapping
By Siobhan Burke
The New York Times, September 6, 2012
"Six of the most sophisticated improvisers around — Michelle Boule?, Hilary Clark, Luke George, K. J. Holmes, Ishmael Houston-Jones and Mr. Gutierrez himself — come together in a new piece by this fiercely intelligent, gleefully irreverent choreographer."
Taking Steps Into the Future
By Gia Kourlas
The New York Times, August 30, 2012
“'The audience is kind of right up there with us, and in that sense it’s very intimate,' Mr. Gutierrez said. 'A huge component of my work is how it’s being seen, regardless of the stage setup.'"
The Miguel Gutierrez Interview, aka: Words on Work, Ghosts, and Sourcing at the Mothership
By Stacy Dawson Stearns
Show Box L.A., July 1, 2011
"Whether Miguel is divining exquisite ensemble dances such as Last Meadow, or inviting audience to become participants in DEEP aerobics, his works are part of an expanding body of active inquiry into the nature of material and immaterial life."
Powerful People (Dance) Director Miguel Gutierrez Comes To Town
By Benn Widdey
LAist, July 12, 2011
"Brought into our midst by Meg Wolfe's Show Box LA, the highly acclaimed and extensively awarded performer/creator will present the LA premiere of his solo, 'Heavens What Have I Done'..."
Miguel Gutierrez - Heavens What Have I Done
By Kelly Hargraves
Eye Spy LA, July 19, 2011
"'Heavens What Have I Done' has Gutierrez dress and undress the performance medium for us—explaining each bit we see while simultaneously making clear it all means little."
Dancer Sings Opera, Insults Plato and Dresses Like Marie Antoinette in L.A. Debut
By Laura Bleiberg
LA Weekly, July 18, 2011
"In 'Heavens What Have I Done,' Gutierrez obliterated the formal lines that not only safely separate the artist from the audience, but also those that divide the art from the viewer."
'Heavens,' it's Miguel Gutierrez at the Alexandria Hotel
By Susan Josephs
Los Angeles Times, July 12, 2011
"Miguel Gutierrez has danced for 24 hours straight while blindfolded in response to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. He invented his own existential workout form called DEEP (Death Electric Emo Protest) Aerobics. And he wrote a book of performance texts that include poems such as 'The Problem With Dancing,' which laments that the art form 'doesn't sell, doesn't last [and] doesn't mean anything.'"
Undressing the Body
By Christine Hou
The Brooklyn Rail, June 2010
"Gutierrez’s striking performance is the antithesis of 'going back to zero.' Contrary to the eradication of his identity, he flaunts it, thus serving as a testimony to Gutierrez’s severe criticality and enigmatic fearlessness."
Her Words, His Movement, Their Collaboration
By Claudia La Rocco
The New York Times, July 23, 2010
"Mr. Gutierrez, who creates emotionally raw, often hallucinatory worlds within his dances, layering movement, speech and song..."
Summer Stages Dance
By Claudia La Rocco
The New York Times, May 9, 2010
"one of today's most exciting dance artists."
Creations of the Offspring of ‘Orestes’
By Claudia La Rocco
The New York Times, December 20, 2009
"One of Ms. Keithley’s authors is Miguel Gutierrez, and a mention must be made of his Last Meadow, which ran in September at Dance Theater Workshop. The relentless, grand exploration of American culture saw Mr. Gutierrez reaching for new heights. His undeniable star was the stellar dancer Michelle Boulé, whose haunting portrayal of James Dean showed her to be every inch an actor as well and just might have been the revelation of the year."
Miguel Gutierrez and the Powerful People
By Eva Yaa Asantewaa
Dance Magazine, September, 2009
"His political and creative restlessness—his refusal to settle and to settle down—makes him one of our most provocative and necessary artistic voices."
A Hollywood Rebel, Reimagined
By Claudia La Rocco
The New York Times, September 17, 2009
"Miguel Gutierrez and the Powerful People explore the slick, seductive nature of film in this dark, emotionally explosive hothouse of a dance at Dance Theater Workshop."
Miguel Gutierrez: Powerful Person
By Lindsay Howard
BOMB Magazine, September 16, 2009
”I’m going to persist beyond the place of it staying pretty or being coherent because we’re not coherent. We’re not pretty. We are multiple bodies. Our beauty rests right alongside our ugliness. Our desire rests right along our acceptance. Our power rests right alongside our vulnerability.”
Last Meadow explores James Dean, love triangles and the collapse of America.
By Gia Kourlas
Time Out New York, Sep 10–16, 2009
“Last Meadow (which will be performed at Dance Theater Workshop beginning Tuesday 15) takes on Dean’s seductive quality in East of Eden, Rebel Without a Cause and Giant, while also playing with the idea of a love triangle. Gutierrez, 38, spoke about his new work—his first large-scale production in two years—and his hope to create something from another world.”
THE NEW SEASON | DANCE; Leaps, Bounds, Birthdays, Despite Belt Tightening
By Claudia La Rocco
The New York Times, September 13, 2009
"This powerful, dark interrogation into an America on the verge of disaster draws on James Dean and features the knockout cast of Michelle Boulé, Tarek Halaby and Mr. Gutierrez"
Across the Country, Dancing in Solidarity for 24 Grueling Hours
By Claudia La Rocco
The New York Times, December 29, 2008
“In a way he’s saying dance can’t do anything for the world. Yet everything he does with his teaching and work says the opposite, which is: Dance can change us, and then we can change the world. – Jesse Zaritt”
Miguel Gutierrez in conversation with Eva Yaa Asantewaa
InfiniteBody, December 16, 2007
Listen to Miguel and Eva Ya Asantewaa talk about "Everyone."
DANCE | Back to the Days of Painting With Dancing Feet
By Claudia La Rocco
The New York Times, October 27, 2007
''The word doesn't somehow acknowledge the different strategies people are using to think about or create their work,'' Miguel Gutierrez explained, referring to choreography. ''If 'choreography' is simply about the arrangement of bodies in graphic space, then no, this doesn't adequately describe what I am interested in.''
Funny, You Don’t Look Dancerish
By Claudia La Rocco
The New York Times, May 20, 2007
“When I talk to people who are not in the dance world and I say I make dances, they immediately assume that I’m in a constant state of exercising,” said Miguel Gutierrez, a New York choreographer. “People think dancer equals person who moves, not artist.”
Probing the Charged Intersection of Action and Analysis
By Claudia La Rocco
The New York Times, March 3, 2007
At a time when so much art lacks a heartbeat, Mr. Gutierrez’s chest pounds. “Everyone,” his newest dance for his group, the Powerful People, is another adrenaline burst, smart and moving and full of questions, the way only real art can be.
The Listings: June 2 - June 8; MIGUEL GUTIERREZ AND THE POWERFUL PEOPLE
By Claudia La Rocco
The New York Times, June 2, 2006
"The work, above, which probes the performer's relationship to the audience, contains nudity, but far more revealing is Mr. Gutierrez's baring of his mental and emotional landscape; a shifting, fragile terrain that seems to consist equally of bravado and vulnerability."
Learning Not to Believe What You're Seeing
By Claudia La Rocco
The New York Times, December 3, 2005
"distorted, layered, looped, obscured and laid bare."