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Migeul Gutierrez presents Retrospective Exhibitionist and Difficult Bodies

Miguel Gutierrez and the Powerful People will perform Retrospective Exhibitionist and Difficult Bodies an evening of two works presented as a diptych, back to back. This evening looks at the two sides that are in every performance: what the performer presents and what the performer feels. In Retrospective Exhibitionist, a landmark solo for Gutierrez, he shuttles through his own real and imagined performance history,
excavating to find 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 merciless unraveling of time and its impact on live performance and the
life on the stage. In Difficult Bodies, Gutierrez continues his confrontation between performer and viewer, with the three women of MGPP as his foil in a celebration of individuality and the tension of togetherness. Their insistent actions fill the space
with the rhythms of attraction and repulsion, as they continually approach and resist the audience. Gutierrez supplies the original music for the work manipulating his own voice live onstage.