Miguel Gutierrez and the Powerful People (his company) are in town. At their free open rehearsal and Q&A next week, Thursday, August 4, at 8 pm, not only will Miguel Gutierrez be performing, but he will be joined in performance by, notably, Ishmael Houston-Jones and K.J. Holmes, as well as Michelle Boulé, Hillary Clark, and Luke George. Houston-Jones is a Bessie-award winning performer, author, teacher, and arts consultant whose choreographic work includes multiple collaborations with iconic queer novelist Dennis Cooper, and K.J. Holmes is adjunct faculty at NYU’s Experimental Theater Wing whilst exploring simultaneous projects as an independent dancer, singer, poet and body worker. This is a cross-generational choreographic project jam-packed with talented people, and there isn’t even room here to expound on the dazzling resumés of Michelle Boulé, Hillary Clark, and Luke George.
Miguel Gutierrez himself is known primarily for his work as a choreographer and dancer, but he also has investigated a “choreography of the human voice” and recently wrote a book of poems/”Performance Texts” that Eileen Myles thinks is great.
Rather than overshadow this blog with the amazing accomplishments of all the Gutierrez Powerful People, let me say that Miguel Gutierrez’s work is explosive, sexy, spontaneous, and subversive. His recent piece Last Meadow “mixed movement and words from James Dean’s three movies to look at the myth of America the father, and confusion as a potentially transformative, sensory-enlivened state.”
If you are a mover of any kind, Miguel is leading a workshop this Saturday! And for everyone: the open rehearsal and Q&A is next Thursday. Otherwise you’ll have to wait until Fall 2012 to catch Miguel Gutierrez and the Powerful People here when they debut And lose the name of action.
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