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Michael Turinsky is a Vienna-based, physically disabled artist and theoretician, working at the intersection of contemporary dance and performance, disability, and political as well as aesthetic theory. Academically trained as a philosopher at the University of Vienna, Michael began diving into the world of inclusive dance in 2006. Later questioning the notion of inclusion, Michael later coined his own term ‘crip choreography‘ to designate his unique artistic practice of engaging the specific, resistant materiality of the body in processes of subverting, de-organizing and re-organizing dominant forms and qualities of movement. Recently, he has also become interested in what fellow disabled artists have termed the ‘aesthetics of access‘; as well as in exploring the intricate relationship between dance and ecology. In 2024 he was as awarded as ‘Outstanding Artist‘ by the Austrian Ministry of Arts and Culture.

Miguel Gutierrez is a multi-disciplinary dance artist living between Lenapehoking/Brooklyn, NY and Tovaangar/Los Angeles. He makes emotional work about epic and existential themes and is committed to creating space for qtbipoc folks to dream and express complexity. Recent work includes ‘I as another, which looks at the virtual architecture of memory‘, and ‘sueño, a bilingual music project of melancholy songs‘. His work has been presented internationally for over twenty years. He received a 2016 Doris Duke Artist Award. He is currently making a new work through the Randjelovic/Stryker Resident Commissioned Artist program at Live Arts, with additional support from On the Boards/Seattle, CAP/UCLA, MCA Chicago, ADF, MANCC, and Jacob’s Pillow. He is an Associate Professor of Choreography and Vice Chair of the MFA program in UCLA’s department of World Arts and Cultures/Dance.