Miguel Gutierrez (USA)

Miguel Gutierrez, born 1971, lives New York. He studied at the Brown University, Providence and the New York University/Tisch School of the Arts and received grants and awards, amongst them the Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation, US Artists International (2011), the United States Artists Fellowship (2010), a NY Dance and Performance Award (Bessie) for „Last Meadow“ (2010) and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship (2010).
In 2001 Miguel Gutierrez founded the platform Powerful People, however he has never been interested in a traditional model of a company. Gutierrez sees the participating artists in his work – dancers, composers, designers and visual artists – as part of an ever-expanding net of inspiring collaborators. His interest in working with others is related to the questions in his work involving group identity and communal experience.
With Powerful People, Gutierrez has created a few larger and international successful works, but he also continues to work in solo form and on smaller scale pieces as well. Regardless of the size of the project, it is Gutierrez’s goal to create challenging and thought-provoking performance experiences.
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