Name: Making Moves presents: Miguel Gutierrez
Start: 2022-11-10T18:30:00-06:00
End: 2022-11-10T19:30:00-06:00
Location: Stern Theater at Charlotte Street Foundation

Making Moves presents: Miguel  Gutierrez

Mission Statement:Charlotte Street centers Kansas City’s most forward-thinking visual artists, writers, and performers— acting as the primary incubator, provocateur, and connector for the region’s contemporary arts community, and its leading advocate on the national stage. Since 1997, Charlotte Street has distributed over $1.85 million in awards and grants to artists and their innovative projects, and connected individual artists to each other and to the greater Kansas City community. For more information about Charlotte Street, its awards, programs, and initiatives, visitwww.charlottestreet.org.

Charlotte Street

Join Making Moves on Thursday, November 10th, as we present internationally renowned performer and creator Miguel Gutierrez.

Stern Theater at Charlotte Street Foundation

Miguel will share his work Unsustainable Solutions: Duet with my Dead Dad. In this 25 minute solo, Miguel interacts with video footage of his recently deceased father to propose an elegy to ghostliness, time travel, and grief. This performance is free and takes place in Charlotte Street Foundation’s Stern Theater at 6:30pm.Please join us after the performance for drinks and casual conversation with Miguel and the 2022 Festival cohortA﻿BOUT MIGUEL GUTIERREZMiguel Gutierrez is a choreographer, composer, performer, singer, writer, educator, podcaster, visual artist, and arts advocate who has been based in Lenapehoking/Brooklyn for twenty five years. His work creates empathetic and irreverent spaces outside of traditional discourse. He believes in an approach to art making that is fierce, fragile, empathetic, political, and poetic.His work has been presented in more than 60 cities around the world, in venues and festivals such as Festival d’Automne, Centre National de Danse, Centre Pompidou, Montpellier Danse, Festival Universitario/Colombia, Bipod Festival/Beirut, ImPulsTanz, Fringe Arts, Walker Art Center, Wexner Center for the Arts, TBA/PICA, MCA Chicago, Live Arts Bard, and the Kathleen Hermesdorf Fresh Fest. New York at The Kitchen, New York Live Arts, BAM, Danspace Project, Abrons Art Center, the Chocolate Factory, American Realness Festival, and the 2014 Whitney Biennial. He has received support from Creative Capital, MAP, National Dance Project, National Performance Network, Dance/NYC and Jerome Foundation. He has received fellowships from New York Foundation for the Arts, the Tides Foundation, Guggenheim Foundation, United States Artists, an award from Foundation for Contemporary Art, a 2016 Franky Award from Prelude Festival and four Bessies. He is a 2016 Doris Duke Artist.A﻿BOUT MAKING MOVESMaking Moves is a monthly dance performance series located in Kansas City, MO, curated and produced by Kyle Mullins. Making Moves is dedicated to the creation and development of new works by local and regional dance makers and to expose Kansas City audiences to a wider array of contemporary dance making.Making Moves provides area choreographers, dancers, and audiences the opportunity to share in the process of new and experimental work in both traditional and non-traditional performance venues. Experimentation, risk-taking, collaboration, and multi-disciplinary approaches are encouraged.Supported by Charlotte Street Foundation, fiscal sponsorship by Fractured Atlas. <a href="https://fundraising.fracturedatlas.org/making-moves" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Click here</a> to donate.

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