Made in USA | Age & Beauty Part 1
Miguel Gutierrez
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Tickets
Venue
Time & Date
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Tickets
Full price: 10 €
Reduced, Friends, Small groups (5-9 people): 8 €
Large groups (10+ people): 7 €
People with disabilities, Unemployed: 5 €
Companions: 8 €
Combo 4 tickets for “The Record” performance: 5 € per ticket
Combo 1+1: 5 € per ticket for selected performances of “Made in USA” festival: “A Piece of Work”, “Age & Beauty Part 1”, “Judson Church is Ringing in Harlem”, “Phone Homer”, “Tell Me Love Is Real”, “The Record”
Duration
1 hour
Introduction
How do we respond to the goal of growing old beautifully when everything around us is seemingly designed for people who will never grow old at all? Mid-life crisis choreographed for the stage. Gutierrez generously shares a personal, honest, humorous work with us which is packed full of dance.
The show won him awards, titles and acclaim but he felt the need to return to a smaller scale and more improvised, freer modes of production. He wanted to address a big question: how do people realign themselves towards life when they reach ‘middle age’ (and, in his case, the mid-way point in their career)?
Which goals do we rethink, and how do we dream of life “from here on in”? What are the particular challenges of this phase in our lives? Having played an active role in the gay community’s fight for their rights in New York, he decided to create a trilogy tackling the issue of identity and gender from the vantage point of middle age. What sort of reception can a middle-aged, homosexual choreographer expect from a system which privileges youth and the new? And how do we respond to the goal of growing old beautifully when everything around us is seemingly designed for people who will never grow old at all?
Photo: Ian Douglas
Credits
Friday 25 November
After performance talk with Miguel Gutierrez
Moderated by Giorgos Mitropoulos, journalist
Saturday 26 November
Workshop with Miguel Gutierrez
“Age & Beauty Part 1: Mid-Career Artist/Suicide Note or &:-/” was commissioned for the 2014 Whitney Biennial and was made possible with support and developmental residencies from the Maggie Allesee National Center for Choreography at Florida State University, the ]domaines[ program at Centre Chorégraphique National de Montpellier Languedoc-Roussillon in Montpellier, France and Hollins University in Roanoke, Virginia.
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