"As I witness Beth and John moving together, I sense a satisfying and welcomed jealousy rumble inside me. They incubate and express an incredibly deep togetherness that I've spent my entire career searching for. Thank you both for reminding us
that this level of communication is indeed possible and yields volumes - both onstage and off."
- Amy Miller, Senior Company Director at Gibney, 2019
that this level of communication is indeed possible and yields volumes - both onstage and off."
- Amy Miller, Senior Company Director at Gibney, 2019
Current Work:
King Lear in the Forest entangles a seemingly unlikely pair, Beth and John, in a churning of personal and historical memories that propel them through kaleidoscopes of fact and fiction. In a blurry green inverted forest, the duo attempts to peel back each other’s layers through tender, unstable and sometimes dangerous physical actions. At times falling into one another, and at times finding unchanging boundaries, King Lear in the Forest asks: is it possible to ever actually join with those we love? Is it possible to be anything other than oneself, and where does self even begin?
Calendar
December 18th, 2019, G^2, split bill with BAIRA, Judson Church, PGEC productions
October 13-21st, 2019, G^2, King Lear in the Forest, "Urban Season 2019", Shanghai, China
Sep-May 2019-2020, On-going - Co-teaching Improvisation for Peridance Capezio Center Certification Program, NYC
July 29-August 3 2019, BAIRA summer intensive, Teaching & Performance, Detroit, MI
Sep-May 2018-2019, On-going - Co-teaching Improvisation for Peridance Capezio Center Certification Program, NYC
Jan 24th, 2019, Performance, NBNA festival, King Lear in the Forest, NYC
G^2 (Gutierrez & Graczyk) have primarily independent performance histories, and met doing a series of projects with the feath3r theory from 2014-2016. They have launched G^2 as a collaborative platform for them to explore co-teaching, and co-generating performance work together. They aim to generate practices together that speak to ways in which their rigorous physical expressions can counter, challenge and blend with one another. In the more subtle and complex space of their bodies, John and Beth explore both identity and post-identity, where the individual labels that are afforded or placed on either of them, have the potential to become blurred with each other and the audience, even for a moment.
John Gutierrez is a multidisciplinary artist, creator, and performer originally from Washington Heights, a neighborhood in a densely populated small island known as Manhattan/New York City. Since finishing his BFA (in theater/drama) at NYU Tisch’s Experimental Theater Wing, John has ventured into various worlds of performance - working with directors and choreographers from around the world such as Big Dance Theater, Full Circle Souljahs, The Ridiculous Theater Company, Andrew Schneider, the feath3r theory, MOTUS of Italy, Ivica Buljan of Croatia, Jesse Phillips-Fein, Martha Tornay, Culture Hub NYC, and many more, performing in venues all over the East Coast and Europe such as BAM, The Kennedy Center, La Mama, Dixon Place, Danspace, Dance Place DC, BAX, and many more. John’s personal work combines theater, movement, and original music ranging from artistic expressions based in everything from hip hop to postmodern and has been presented at The Rubin Museum, Gibney, Theater for The New City, HERE Arts, TADA Theater to name a few. His work, typically collaborative based, often deals with current and historical interpersonal and systemic sociopolitical issues. John recently finished his training at the Terry Knickerbocker Studio which offers a two year acting conservatory in the Meisner technique/method. He is faculty at Peridance Contemporary Dance Center where he co-teaches improvisation with Beth Graczyk, from which has stemmed a new collaboration project known as G^2! Recent credits include performing internationally with Miguel Gutierrez, MOTUS, and Pilobolus. John is a proud member of the Great Jones Rep Company of La Mama and BAIRA / MVMNT PHLOSHPY. @jmg160. Vimeo
King Lear in the Forest entangles a seemingly unlikely pair, Beth and John, in a churning of personal and historical memories that propel them through kaleidoscopes of fact and fiction. In a blurry green inverted forest, the duo attempts to peel back each other’s layers through tender, unstable and sometimes dangerous physical actions. At times falling into one another, and at times finding unchanging boundaries, King Lear in the Forest asks: is it possible to ever actually join with those we love? Is it possible to be anything other than oneself, and where does self even begin?
Calendar
December 18th, 2019, G^2, split bill with BAIRA, Judson Church, PGEC productions
October 13-21st, 2019, G^2, King Lear in the Forest, "Urban Season 2019", Shanghai, China
Sep-May 2019-2020, On-going - Co-teaching Improvisation for Peridance Capezio Center Certification Program, NYC
July 29-August 3 2019, BAIRA summer intensive, Teaching & Performance, Detroit, MI
Sep-May 2018-2019, On-going - Co-teaching Improvisation for Peridance Capezio Center Certification Program, NYC
Jan 24th, 2019, Performance, NBNA festival, King Lear in the Forest, NYC
G^2 (Gutierrez & Graczyk) have primarily independent performance histories, and met doing a series of projects with the feath3r theory from 2014-2016. They have launched G^2 as a collaborative platform for them to explore co-teaching, and co-generating performance work together. They aim to generate practices together that speak to ways in which their rigorous physical expressions can counter, challenge and blend with one another. In the more subtle and complex space of their bodies, John and Beth explore both identity and post-identity, where the individual labels that are afforded or placed on either of them, have the potential to become blurred with each other and the audience, even for a moment.
John Gutierrez is a multidisciplinary artist, creator, and performer originally from Washington Heights, a neighborhood in a densely populated small island known as Manhattan/New York City. Since finishing his BFA (in theater/drama) at NYU Tisch’s Experimental Theater Wing, John has ventured into various worlds of performance - working with directors and choreographers from around the world such as Big Dance Theater, Full Circle Souljahs, The Ridiculous Theater Company, Andrew Schneider, the feath3r theory, MOTUS of Italy, Ivica Buljan of Croatia, Jesse Phillips-Fein, Martha Tornay, Culture Hub NYC, and many more, performing in venues all over the East Coast and Europe such as BAM, The Kennedy Center, La Mama, Dixon Place, Danspace, Dance Place DC, BAX, and many more. John’s personal work combines theater, movement, and original music ranging from artistic expressions based in everything from hip hop to postmodern and has been presented at The Rubin Museum, Gibney, Theater for The New City, HERE Arts, TADA Theater to name a few. His work, typically collaborative based, often deals with current and historical interpersonal and systemic sociopolitical issues. John recently finished his training at the Terry Knickerbocker Studio which offers a two year acting conservatory in the Meisner technique/method. He is faculty at Peridance Contemporary Dance Center where he co-teaches improvisation with Beth Graczyk, from which has stemmed a new collaboration project known as G^2! Recent credits include performing internationally with Miguel Gutierrez, MOTUS, and Pilobolus. John is a proud member of the Great Jones Rep Company of La Mama and BAIRA / MVMNT PHLOSHPY. @jmg160. Vimeo
Photos: Effyography