20th Anniversary ODC Theater Film Screening (SF)

Submitted by the Event Organizer

Originally premiered November 30, 2005, join ODC Theater to celebrate the 20-year anniversary of Miguel Gutierrez’s landmark, Bessie award-winning pieces Retrospective Exhibitionist and Difficult Bodies, and don’t miss the free discussion between Miguel Gutierrez and collaborator Abby Crain and reception to follow!

In Retrospective Exhibitionist, a landmark solo for Gutierrez, he shuttles through his own real and imagined performance history, excavating the vulnerability of what it is to be watched by others. Using a TV/VCR, boom box, mic and amp, video camera, and other simple props, Gutierrez looks at the unraveling of time and its impact on live performance and a life spent on the stage.

In Difficult Bodies, Gutierrez continues his confrontation between performer and viewer. Three women move together in a simple formal design that makes the kinetic power of their bodies and their connection to each other unmistakable and immediate. Their insistent actions fill the space with the rhythms of attraction and repulsion, as they continually approach and resist the audience. Gutierrez creates the live music for the trio in which sounds and words are looped incessantly to create a symphonic, epic delirium.

Miguel Gutierrez (he/him) is an artist and educator living between Lenapehoking/Brooklyn, NY and Tovaangar/Los Angeles. His work continues and expands the legacy of experimental QTPOC artists and creates empathetic, irreverent, and reflective spaces that prioritize attention as a means to unravel normative belief systems. He is also fascinated by how capital interacts with art making, a topic he explored in his podcast Are You For Sale? Recent performance work includes Super Nothing, I as another, and sueño, a bilingual music project of melancholy songs, which was recently performed at Jacob’s Pillow. His work has been presented internationally for over twenty years in venues such as American Realness, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Chocolate Factory, Walker Art Center, Wexner Center for the Arts, American Dance Festival, On the Boards, REDCAT, Festival D’Automne in Paris, Festival Universitario in Colombia and as a selected artist for the 2014 Whitney Biennial. He is a Guggenheim Fellow, a United States Artists Fellow, and a recipient of a Foundation for Contemporary Art award, a 2016 Doris Duke Artist Award, a 2016 Frankie Award, and four New York Dance and Performance “Bessie” Awards. He has received project support multiple times through the National Performance Network, MAP Fund, and the New England Foundation for the Arts’ National Dance Project. He is an Associate Professor of Choreography in the Department of World Arts and Cultures/Dance at UCLA.

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