Miguel Gutierrez (born 1971) is an American choreographer, composer, performer, singer, writer, educator and advocate based in New York City. His multidisciplinary performances "layer quotidian business and seemingly off-the-cuff remarks with strikingly choreographed sequences and lyrical text" and have been presented in more than 60 cities around the world. Career A 1989 graduate of the Pingry School, Gutierrez studied dance at Brown University and New York University, eventually dropping out and moving to San Francisco, where he danced in the Joe Goode Performance Group. After moving to New York City in 1996, Guitierrez danced in John Jasperse's company for seven years. Since 2001, Gutierrez has been creating and performing solo and ensemble dance performances. His work has been presented in venues such as the Centre National de Danse, Centre Pompidou, Festival Universitario, ImPulsTanz, Fringe Arts, Walker Art Center, TBA/PICA, MCA Chicago, Live Arts Bard, American Realness, and the 2014 Whitney Biennial. He has received support from Creative Capital, MAP, National Dance Project, National Performance Network, 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, the Doris Duke Performing Artist Award in 2016, a Franky Award from the Prelude Festival in 2016, and four Bessies. He has been an artist in residence at MANCC, LMCC, Centre Choréographique National de Montpellier, Centre National du Danse Pantin, Baryshnikov Art Center, and Gibney Dance. He has created music for several of his works, for Antonio Ramos’ work, and with Colin Self for Jen Rosenblit and Simone Aughterlony. He performs with Nick Hallett as Nudity in Dance. He also currently performs a music project called SADONNA: sad versions of upbeat Madonna songs. Projects DEEP AEROBICS -- Death Electric Emo Protest Aerobics A workout class in costumes playing on the themes of mortality, political protest, oppression, resistance and hope. It is over an hour of communal/political/conceptual/imaginational workout experience in public. It combines vigorous bouncing of one’s anatomical/spiritual/energetic molecules with the existential absurdity that is living in a world/country/economic system of injustice, war-mongering, and cultural ineptitude. myendlesslove Performed at Henry Street Settlement in 2006 and then reconstructed in 2013 at Abron Arts Center, the work explores sex, desire and growing older in gay culture. On the heels of one of the major works of his career and the worst breakup of his life, choreographer Miguel Gutierrez created