Boom Times for Miguel Gutierrez, an Artist of Ordered Excess
The choreographer and performer Miguel Gutierrez, known for his outspokenness onstage and off, sometimes jokes about his reputation for complaining. As he put it recently, while chatting over lunch at a restaurant in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, “I have such a brand of, like, kvetcher.”
Gutierrez, 51, was reflecting on the opportunities that had come his way since 2018, when, as a prominent midcareer artist, he had struggled to secure funding for his latest project, an effort chronicled in his podcast “Are You for Sale?” In contrast to that discouraging moment, he is now entering one of the most bountiful periods in his 22 years of making dance-based performances.
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