Free and open to the community. RSVP: motionstatearts@gmail.com

Thanks to Brown University and the Department of Theatre Arts and Performance Studies for hosting.

In this workshop two things happen: 1. We engage approaches to improvisation and performance practice that inform my work. 2. These practices are means by which we negotiate what it is to be in a room of individuals together—or as Jean Luc Nancy famously put it—“the singular plural.” We cull from a variety of possible approaches: continuous movement practices, exploring the primary, movement, energetic and creative senses, working with the Feldenkrais Method to tap into relations of self and other, creating instant performances, teasing out the socio-cultural dynamics in the room with particular group exercises, vocal work, and interspersing movement with reading and writing.

Miguel Gutierrez creates dance-based performances, music and poetry that focus on desire, identity and the search for meaning. He is a 2016 Doris Duke Artist. His work has been presented in venues such as Centre National de Danse, Centre Pompidou, ImPulsTanz, Fringe Arts, Walker Art Center, TBA/PICA, MCA Chicago, New York Live Arts, Live Arts Bard, and the 2014 Whitney Biennial. He has received support from Creative Capital, MAP, National Dance Project, and Jerome Foundation and has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, United States Artists, New York Foundation for the Arts, Tides Foundation as well as a Foundation for Contemporary Art award and four NY Dance and Performance Bessies. He recently premiered This Bridge Called My Ass, a group performance that bends tropes of Latinidad to articulate new relationships to identity and form. It was presented by The Chocolate Factory as part of American Realness 2019. He currently performs a music project called SADONNA, where he turns Madonna’s upbeat songs into sad anthems. He runs LANDING, an educational initiative at Gibney, and his book When You Rise Up is available from 53rd State Press.

photo: Paula Lobo