"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 (KLIF) is a multi-disciplinary performance piece that unravels the perceived, known, and yet to be known identities of the duoship G^2 through the lens of race, gender, age, and sexuality, as they traverse a metaphoric forest that generates a chimera of kinetically contemplative and visually-rich psychological territories.
Calendar
On-going (since 2018) - John & Beth are full-time faculty at Peridance Center Certificate Program in NYC where they co-teach Improvisation
July 31-Aug 13, 2022, SFDI + G^2 Residency, teaching & performance in Seattle Parks produced by Velocity Dance Center, Seattle
June 13-25, 2022, G^2, Residency and live performance at The Center at West Park, NYC
May 14-16, 2021, G^2, Residency showing for The Center at West Park, Online, NYC
August 8th & 10th, 2020, G^2, SFDI, Online, Seattle, WA
December 18th, 2019, G^2, split bill with BAIRA, Judson Church, PGEC productions
Nov 6th-10th, 2019, G^2, Setting work at Wayne State University on WSU Dance Workshop, Detroit, MI
October 13-21st, 2019, G^2, King Lear in the Forest, "Urban Season 2019", Shanghai, China
July 29-August 3 2019, BAIRA summer intensive, Teaching & Performance, Detroit, MI
Jan 24th, 2019, Performance, NBNA festival, King Lear in the Forest, NYC
G^2 stems from artistic dialogue between John Maria Gutierrez, a NYC-born, 1st generation Dominican-American, and Beth Graczyk, a Seattle-born 3rd generation Polish-American. Their unique connection celebrates their diverse backgrounds and through a cultivated trust, have found ways to share their intimate struggles, hopes, and dreams with each other in a space that honors their differences while seeking to find empathetic understanding of each other. G^2 manifests material by collaging diverse improvisational concepts, post-modern, modern, hip-hop, and contemporary dance, theater, acting, poetry, and music into a multi-dimensional and imaginative worlds.
G^2 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 Maria Gutierrez is an actor, dancer, creator who performs on screen and stage nationally and internationally. Originally from a small island presently called NYC, John was raised in the Northern region of the island in a hood commonly known as "Little Dominican Republic" or Washington Heights. His works combine bboy and postmodern aesthetics, original music, singing, and experimental theater to unwind a complex urban disparity brought on by social and systemic failings. As the first person in his family born in the US, John is carving out and balancing his own identity within his family, cultural history, and an artistic landscape that doesn’t often highlight the experiences of lower income, multilingual, and queer expressions. Since graduating from NYU Tisch’s Experimental Theater Wing John has ventured into various landscapes of performance with choreographer/directors and companies such as Miguel Gutierrez, Big Dance Theater, Pilobolus, Gesel Mason, Raja Feather Kelly, BAIRA, Full Circle Souljahs, Jeanette Stoner and Dancers, performing in venues such as BAM, The Chocolate Factory, Dancespace, Joes Pub, La Mama, JACK, Dixon Place. He is a graduate of the Terry Knickerbocker Studio and faculty at Peridance Center. John is a proud member of the Great Jones Rep Company of La Mama and G^2, an ongoing collaboration with Beth Graczyk which recently presented work at Judson Church and the Shanghai Tower in China. John is also a 2020-21 Artist in Residence at La Mama as well as a BAAD/Pepatian Dance Your Futures artist.
King Lear In The Forest (KLIF) is a multi-disciplinary performance piece that unravels the perceived, known, and yet to be known identities of the duoship G^2 through the lens of race, gender, age, and sexuality, as they traverse a metaphoric forest that generates a chimera of kinetically contemplative and visually-rich psychological territories.
Calendar
On-going (since 2018) - John & Beth are full-time faculty at Peridance Center Certificate Program in NYC where they co-teach Improvisation
July 31-Aug 13, 2022, SFDI + G^2 Residency, teaching & performance in Seattle Parks produced by Velocity Dance Center, Seattle
June 13-25, 2022, G^2, Residency and live performance at The Center at West Park, NYC
May 14-16, 2021, G^2, Residency showing for The Center at West Park, Online, NYC
August 8th & 10th, 2020, G^2, SFDI, Online, Seattle, WA
December 18th, 2019, G^2, split bill with BAIRA, Judson Church, PGEC productions
Nov 6th-10th, 2019, G^2, Setting work at Wayne State University on WSU Dance Workshop, Detroit, MI
October 13-21st, 2019, G^2, King Lear in the Forest, "Urban Season 2019", Shanghai, China
July 29-August 3 2019, BAIRA summer intensive, Teaching & Performance, Detroit, MI
Jan 24th, 2019, Performance, NBNA festival, King Lear in the Forest, NYC
G^2 stems from artistic dialogue between John Maria Gutierrez, a NYC-born, 1st generation Dominican-American, and Beth Graczyk, a Seattle-born 3rd generation Polish-American. Their unique connection celebrates their diverse backgrounds and through a cultivated trust, have found ways to share their intimate struggles, hopes, and dreams with each other in a space that honors their differences while seeking to find empathetic understanding of each other. G^2 manifests material by collaging diverse improvisational concepts, post-modern, modern, hip-hop, and contemporary dance, theater, acting, poetry, and music into a multi-dimensional and imaginative worlds.
G^2 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 Maria Gutierrez is an actor, dancer, creator who performs on screen and stage nationally and internationally. Originally from a small island presently called NYC, John was raised in the Northern region of the island in a hood commonly known as "Little Dominican Republic" or Washington Heights. His works combine bboy and postmodern aesthetics, original music, singing, and experimental theater to unwind a complex urban disparity brought on by social and systemic failings. As the first person in his family born in the US, John is carving out and balancing his own identity within his family, cultural history, and an artistic landscape that doesn’t often highlight the experiences of lower income, multilingual, and queer expressions. Since graduating from NYU Tisch’s Experimental Theater Wing John has ventured into various landscapes of performance with choreographer/directors and companies such as Miguel Gutierrez, Big Dance Theater, Pilobolus, Gesel Mason, Raja Feather Kelly, BAIRA, Full Circle Souljahs, Jeanette Stoner and Dancers, performing in venues such as BAM, The Chocolate Factory, Dancespace, Joes Pub, La Mama, JACK, Dixon Place. He is a graduate of the Terry Knickerbocker Studio and faculty at Peridance Center. John is a proud member of the Great Jones Rep Company of La Mama and G^2, an ongoing collaboration with Beth Graczyk which recently presented work at Judson Church and the Shanghai Tower in China. John is also a 2020-21 Artist in Residence at La Mama as well as a BAAD/Pepatian Dance Your Futures artist.
Photos: Effyography