8:30 PM . Miguel Gutierrez, Age & Beauty Part 1: Mid-Career Artist/Suicide Note or &:-/

Age & Beauty Part 1: Mid-Career Artist/Suicide Note or &:-/ is the first of a suite of queer pieces Gutierrez is creating over the course of three years that addresses the representation of the dancer, the physical and emotional labor of performance, tropes about the aging gay choreographer, the interaction of art making with administration, the idea of queer time and futurity, and mid-life anxieties about relevance, sustainability, and artistic burnout. Part 1 is a duet for 43-year-old Gutierrez and 24-year-old performer/dancer Mickey Mahar and follows from a packed set of precise unison dances to an irreverent and celebratory corruption of orderliness, suggesting modes of communication and relations where hyper-emotional affect is not only the conceptual and choreographic core of the performance, but also the only hope for continuing in this fucked-up world.

THURS JAN 8, 6:00 PM + 8:30 PM
FRI JAN 9, 5:30 PM + 7:30 PM
SAT JAN 10, 7:00 PM

RUN TIME: 60 minutes

GIBNEY DANCE: AGNES VARIS PERFORMING ARTS CENTER
280 Broadway (Entrance at 53A Chambers) / tickets $20 / GibneyDance.org