Event

Miguel Gutierrez

SHOW BOX LA presents Miguel Gutierrez /HEAVENS WHAT HAVE I DONE

Co-produced by Blankenship Ballet at Alexandria

at
The Alexandria Hotel
Palm Court Ballroom
501 S. Spring Street, first floor
Los Angeles, CA 90013

Friday and Saturday, JULY 15 & 16, 2011
9:00pm

Set to music sung by renowned soprano Cecilia Bartoli, HEAVENS WHAT HAVE I DONE unfolds from a rambling monologue addressing the artists' ascension to success, the hypocrisies of an unstable world, artistic critiques, and dreams and desires of a more personal nature.

"Every movement is immediate and deliberate, despite how volatile it feels a meticulously planned self-destruction." - Christine Hou for THE BROOKLYN RAIL

Created and Performed by Miguel Gutierrez
Lights by Lenore Doxsee
Costume by Machine Dazzle
Set by Miguel Gutierrez and Jason Simms
Music by Vivaldi and others
Management by Ben Pryor / tbspMGMT
HEAVENS WHAT HAVE I DONE was supported by Foundation for Contemporary Arts.

Sunday, July 17th - INEFFABLE INTANGIBLE SENSATIONAL - workshop:
PLEASE NOTE, THIS WORKSHOP IS FULL.
"I am currently looking at the intersections between neurology, cognitive science/philosophy, somatic processes and improvisation. I am interested in and troubled by the way that these fields work in isolation from each other to find similar results, and I wonder if dance/choreography can be a place to unite the discoveries that have been made. Working from the proposition that dance is a mode of perceptual inquiry, and working against the idea of dance as a non-verbal "language," I am interested in movement explorations that prioritize sensation, non-rational action, and that trigger automatic, unprepared physical response. What does movement "do" and how does it operate as a framework for complicated, nuanced, embodied meaning?"

photo by Ian Douglas