Randjelović / Stryker Resident Commissioned Artist
The Randjelović/Stryker Resident Commissioned Artist (RCA) program was created in 2011 by New York Live Arts to address what we perceive to be an overall lack of support for mid-career artists. The program is by-invitation only and offers a salary, health benefits, two years of residency time and a commission of a new work to premiere at New York Live Arts. Select works will then be chosen for a fully produced national and/or international tour managed by New York Live Arts.
2023-24 RCA Miguel Gutierrez
Miguel Gutierrez is a choreographer, composer, performer, singer, writer, educator, podcaster, visual artist, and arts advocate who has been based in Lenapehoking/Brooklyn for twenty five years. His work creates empathetic and irreverent spaces outside of traditional discourse – he believes in an approach to art making that is fierce, fragile, empathetic, political, and poetic.
Miguel Gutierrez’s world premiere of Super Nothing will be a highlight of the Spring 2025 season. Inspired by bell hooks’ statement that “Moving, we confront the realities of choice and location,” the performers from New York and Los Angeles – Jay Carlon (LA), Justin Faircloth (NYC), Wendell Gray II (NYC), and Evelyn Lilian Sanchez Narvaez (LA) – navigate a shifting physical terrain of intimacy, negotiation, and pent up feeling to create a world where we rethink what it means to come together. Gutierrez is a choreographer, composer, performer, singer, writer, educator, podcaster, visual artist, and arts advocate who has been based in Lenapehoking/Brooklyn for twenty five years.
Thinking about movement in both the dance and geographic sense of the word, this piece engages with our ideas about place/home, time, history, and the strength and failings of “community.”
Previous RCA’s Include: Faye Driscoll (2021-2022), Raja Feather Kelly (2019-2020), RoseAnne Spradlin (2017-2018), Okwui Oakpokwasili (2015-2016), Kyle Abraham | Abraham in Motion (2014-2015), Yasuko Yokoshi (2013-2014)
