Miguel Gutierrez, a dance and music artist based in New York, has been called "one of our most provocative and necessary artistic voices" by Eva Yaa Asantewaa of Dance Magazine. He makes solo and group pieces with a variety of artists under the moniker Miguel Gutierrez and the Powerful People. His work, characterised by the immersive quality of the attentive state that it imposes on the audience, centres around enduring philosophical questions about desire, longing and the search for meaning.

His work has toured internationally at several festivals and venues and has received support from Creative Capital, Jerome Foundation, Rockefeller MAP Fund NYFA, NEA and NPN. In 2010 he received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Foundation for Contemporary Art, and United States Artists. He is the winner of three New York Dance and Performance Bessie awards. "When You Rise Up", a book of his performance texts, is available from 53rd State Press. He also invented "Deep Aerobics", an absurdist workout for the radical in all of us. For his new project he is researching the overlapping and divergent conceptions of "mind" in the fields of neurology, embodied philosophy, somatic practices, improvisation and the paranormal.
www.miguelgutierrez.org