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With the birth of my son in 1999 I started my work as a choreographer. My first funded project was 'flesh and bone'. From then on, I realized several projects, a lot of them in 'non-theatrical' spaces like churches, galleries and empty buildings in the city. Since I never intended to stay in Germany, we went back to Mexico with our son shortly after his birth. There, I began experimenting with video. After almost three years of living in Mexico, we returned to Hamburg. From then on, I spent a lot of time in the editing room at the HfbK, learning camera work and editing from film student friends.

 

For those, who wants to know more

Born in Mexico city.
Live in Hamburg, Germany

Studies in Contemporary Dance (Graham and Limón) University of Morelos, Escuela Nacional de Danza, Mexico City, u.a.
Dancer for Mexican dance compagnies Yoli-Xinastli, YOCOYANI DANZA TEATRO, Obsidiana. Participation for international compagnies.
Studies in New Dance & Performance in Hannover.
Workshops by David Hernández, Karen Schaffmann, Labor GR AS, Frey Faust, Russel Maliphant, uvm.
Reiki and Shiatsu Practicioner.

I've been working in all these years with dancers, actors, wrestlers, musicians, DJs, composers, amateurs, scholars costume and stage designers from Asia, Europe, Lateinamerica, USA and Africa.

Dance Theatre Projects, Installations, Artists residencies, Shortvideos, collaborations as well as other participations as a jury member of various committees and talks:

2024

Artisic participation at the exhibition "Travelling Back- reframing a 19th-century exhibition from Munich to Brazil"
Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschihte in München
From February 9th. to 5th. April

Mentoring at the Rwandan-German production "Colonial Intersections-colonial entanglements with the topics of mental health, climate and gender through the creation of short documentary films""
Kigali, Ruanda
From March 13th. to 28th.

global Munich?
Ausstellungen und Performances
URBAN BODIES PROJECT - MÜNCHEN
Münchner Kammerspiele/Habibi Kiosk
global dis:connect Research Center am Käte Hamburger Kolleg
28. Juni

Podcast
Dekolonisierung as artistic practice at theater
With diverse players from the performing and visual arts.
From August to Oktober

Feminismo Migrante
México en Munich-entre la esperanza y el temo (Mexico in Munich-between the hope and fear)r
Exposición grupal / group exhibition
October24th to 26th

2023

Fellowship at the Käte Hamburger Kolleg"global dis:connect"
Ludwig-Maximilian University Munich
15. November 2022 bis 30. Juli 2023

Participation at AUTOSTOPP EUROPA
Partizipativ multimediainstallation at Schadenhof in Biberach / Theater Tonne
Mai 7th 2023

Teilnahme als "special guest" an
CREATIVE THINK TANK Dance –Tool of Empowerment, Strategy and Motor for Coping with Crisis?
BREAKOUT ROOM 3 What role can platforms like festivals play in addressing socially or politically suffered violence?
TANZ Bremen - online Veranstaltung
May 16th 2023

Archive of memories at Theatre Rampe
a post-pandemic studie as interactive installation at the Festival "All Tomorrows Parties"
June 8th, 9th, 10th 2023

URBAN BODIES PROJECT-MUNICH
Dekolonizing and performative Audiowalk at the city of Munich.
July 4th & 8th 2023

ALICE & MICHEL
Performativ-literary Parkour
Central Comitée, Hamburg
September 2nd. & 3th 2023

URBAN BODIES PROJECT - KIGALI
Decolonizing and performative Audiowalk at Kandt House
September 22nd., 23th & 24th 2023

NEZLAMNI
Aids program for ucranian artists - Bureau Ritter
Vernissage at Kulturschloss Wandsbek
September 30th 2023

Talk at
The annual conference of the Käte Hamburger Research Centre global dis:connect
"All stories at least are not the same:
dis:connectivites in global knowledge production"
October 11th to 13th 2023

Jurymember
"Call "Hidden places - Stuttgart retold"
Stuttgart places of remembrance culture are to be given new visibility in public space through art and cultural projects
September 2023

2022

SHAPE THE FUTURE 2022
Tanzpakt-Reconnect 2
Artistic Plattform and international Producers office
From November 2021 to December 2022

NEZLAMNI
Aids program for ucranian artists
SHAPE THE FUTURE -artistic plattform and international producers office
Funded by RITTER Bureau
Vom Juli bis Dezember 2022

Lay assessor for the Revival and guest performance funding
Dachverband Darstellende Künste Hamburg
from April to December 2022

Fellowship at the Käte Hamburger Kolleg"global dis:connect"
Ludwig-Maximilian University Munich
November 2022-July 2023

Jury member within the framework of the special funds "Decolonising Hamburg
Ministry of Culture and Media Hamburg
July 2022

URBAN BODIES PROJECT - GUADALAJARA
Goethe-Zentrum Guadalajara
Ministry of Culture and Media Hamburg
With friendly support fromSecretaría de Cultura de Jalico
Festival Internacional Danza Jalisco 2022
November 4th., 5th., 6th. 2022

URBAN BODIES PROJECT - MEXICO-CITY
Ministry of Culture and Media Hamburg
Gastspielförderung DfDK
With friendly support from Sistema Nacional de Danza and Sistema teatros Ciudad de México
October 14th., 15th.,16th. 2022 as part of the Festival Teatro en Plazas Públicas

Research Fund FoDaKü
Decolonizing as artistic practice at the performance arts
Juli bis September 2022

DECOLONYCITIES WINDHUK-HAMBURG
Together with the Museum for Hamburger History and Kampnagel
Around the Bismarck-Statue
NPN-Stepping out / JOINT ADVENTURES
Behörde für Kultur und Medien
Artistic director/Choreographer
June 25th., 26th., 27th. 2022

#TakeHeart Residency
Theater Rampe, Stuttgart.
Erinnerungsort:Theater
April - May 2022

8. Phototriennale Hamburg
Curator for Power.Means. Money: Currence as Image! Image as Currency?
together with the Museum for Hamburg history
Phtographer: Chris Schwagga
Dancer: Eva Lomby
May 21st to August 15th 2022

Critical Whiteness im Gespräch: Wissenschaft trifft Kunst & Kultur
Hosted by the Faculty of Humanities' Equality Team and the Roundtable Collective, founded in 2020, this series of events will be
Responsibility. Rassismus(kritik) an Hochschulen an der Universität Hamburg.
April 28th at 6 p.m. at MuT! Theater

DIS-TANZ-SOLO
Fund for research
February-May 2022

"erinnern_zerstören_gestalten"
Das Hamburger Bismarck-Denkmal und postkoloniale Erinnerungsorte in Deutschland
Mit Prof. Astrid Erll, Jonas Prinzleve, Yolanda Gutiérrez, Kodjo Valentin Gläser
Digitale Veranstaltung der Universität-Kiel
Only in German language
03. Februar um 18 Uhr

2021

Die Zukunft der Denkmäler. Neue Formen der Erinnerungskultur für eine zukunftsfähige Gesellschaft Im Rahmen des Stuttgarter Symposions 2021
Diskussionsrunde mit Yolanda Gutiérrez (Choreographin), Ülkü Süngün (Künstlerin), Martin Mannweiler (Filmemacher) und
Nadine Seidu (Kulturamt Stuttgart)
(Organisiert bei Haus der Geschichte in Baden-Württemberg / Stadtarchiv Stuttgart)
Freitag, 26. November um 19:30 Uhr.
Online Veranstaltung.

Seminar Uni-Augsburg MA Seminar"Dekoloniale Interventionen in der Stadt
Dozentin: Christina Pauls
Lehrstuhl für Politikwissenschaft, Freidens-und Konfliktforschung
Di. 23. November um 8:30 Uhr.
Online-Veranstaltung.

URBAN BODIES PROJECT-HAMBURG
Postcolonoal dance interventions in Mexico City.
Funded by Goethe Institut Hamburg/DfDk HH Resumption Fund
Oktober 2021

Postcolonial Deconstruction: Artistic interventions towards a multilayered monument/ 3rd. Workshop
Vortrag: Artistic intervention around the Bismarck Monument
Hamburg (Germany) - DIGITAL
September 2021
Organized and invited through the Ministry of culture and media Hamburg.

ALICE & MICHEL
A performative-literary parkour
A production by Telemichel together with Michel Abdollahi and Alice Hasters.
September 2021
Concept/Choreography
Funded by Fonds Darstellende Künste #TakePart

BISMARCK-DEKOLONIAL LIVE=FORUM - Summer Festival Kampnagel
August 2021
Producer/Curator
Funded by Fonds Darstellende Künste #TakeAktion, Ministry of culture and Media Hamburg, part of Kultursommer Hamburg.

ARCHIVE 20-20 DISTANZ-SOLO
Digitalizing and archiving my choreografic work of the past 20 years.
January to June

DECOLONYCITIES KIG-HH together with MARKK Museum
activistic and critical dance interventions related to the colonial past between Kigali and Hamburg.
Elbkulturfonds/NPN-Stepping out
June 18th-20th 2021

Academy of visual arts Stuttgart
Lecture for the Seminar *re-explore / re-write*
from Prof. Antonia Low
Th. May 6th 2 pm - via ZOOM

BISMARCK-DEKOLONIAL LAB=FORUM-. ZOOM- Webminar
April 2021
Producer/Curator
Funded by the Ministry of Culture and Media Hamburg

SHAPE THE FUTURE 2021 -
Tanzpakt=reconnect
January to August

2020

DEAD DANCE ZONE im MBASSY - Hamburg
November, Hamburg

JURY Member by 6 TAGE FREI FESTIVAL-RESIDENZ im Rahmen von TANZPAKT STUTTGART: Application call for artists of Baden Württenberg

URBAN BODIES PROJECT - STUTTGART at Festival DIE IRRITIERTE STADT in Stuttgart

SYMPOSIUM -Artistic strategies to activate public space Theme: Re-thinking History or:how representativ is the open space? - Conference Body interventions in open spaces and the Reinterpretation of History at Festival DIE IRRITIERTE STADT

2019

DECOLONYCITIES postcolonial tour with body interventions at the port of Hamburg between dancers from Dar es Salaam and Hamburg.

URBAN BODIES PROJECT in Amsterdam at JULIDANS International Dance Festival

2018

PLANET KIGALI - Kampnagel
DEAD DANCE ZONE -MARKK Museum
ALTONA in 2050 Silent Walk for Altona macht auf! Balcony Performances.

THE BODY AT THE END OF THE TIMES Dance piece for the International Dance Festival Haba na Haba in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. With six young dancers from Dar.

You're welcome to stand at my place Duo- dance piece with two dancers from Rwanda and Tanzania for the International Dance Festival Haba na Haba in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. - work in progress.

2017

DANCE HITS – Summer Camp-Schoolar Workshops at the International Summer Theatre Festival / Kampnagel.

URBAN BODIES PROJECT – Concept/Artistic director -
postcolonial-site-specific-dance-performance-silent-walk project at the port of Hamburg / Theater der Welt.

MEXICAN SPIRIT – Curator -
Four days series of events at Kampnagel with mexican artists, journalists, performers and filmmakers.

THERE IS NO WORD FOR FUTURE IN SWAHILI - Choreography with 14 dancers for the Festival „Haba na Haba Traditional and Contemporary Dance Festival“ in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.

ALTONA MACHT AUF! Coaching for Theater Altonale, Hamburg - Winner of the Stadtteilkulturpreis 2017

2016

ALTONA MACHT AUF! Coaching for Theater Altonale, Hamburg

DANCE HITS – Together with Cecile Noldus Summer Camp-Schoolar Workshops at the International Summer Theatre Festival / Kampnagel.

2015

THE FAKE EMPIRE – Dance-Laboratory with music producer DJ Tom Strauch for Laba! Arts Festival in Kampala, Uganda. Shortvideo: "Krump meets Nature" with Crusha Bornz Jinja, Uganda. Shortvideo: Dancers Soldiers, Kampala, Uganda.

ALTONA MACHT AUF! Coaching for Theater Altonale, Hamburg

POLITICAL BODIES – Music and Dance project between Dakar-Hamburg-Cologne / Kampnagel, Hamburg/ Theater im Bauturm, Cologne/ Kaay Fecc Festival, Dakar.
Curator from the Congress: " African Hip-Hop: a lesson for european democracy" with activists, intelectuals, journalists, rappers and dancers from Senegal, USA, Mexico,Spain and Germany.

2014

DEAD DANCE ZONE – Dance-Installation- Performance Project / Kampnagel, Hamburg.

„Los placeres prohibidos“ with Azahara Ubera / Festival Cabanyal Intim, Valencia, Spanien.

Artist Residency - B.I.D.E International Artist Exchange, Barcelona, Spain / The Dead Body (Laboratory facilitated by Abel Coelho and Yolanda Gutiérrez for 22 internationale Tänzer).

Artist Residency - Kautokeino, Norwegen mit Meri Nikula (Fin) Asher Lev (IS), Johannes Bergmann (SWE), Irina Lav (LIT), Y. Gutiérrez (MX/D).

2013

Mexican Spirit Vol.1 Installation and Performance space inspired by the mexican day of the dead for the International Summer Theatre Festival in Kampnagel / at the Spekulativen Dorf von Baltic Raw.

Der goldenen Balkon Altona macht auf- Theateraltonale – Balkony Performances, Hamburg

Artist Residency - WEAVE International Artist Exchange, Brüssels, Belgien.

East Side Story Dance theatre project for scholars at Schule am See, Hamburg.

Axel & Axel – The third rounddoku-fiction theatre with the Wrestling Legende Axel Dieter and his Wrestler Son Axel Dieter, Jr. Choreography and Video: Yolanda Gutiérrez. The german televison zdf/3sat broadcasted this work by the program "Kulturpalast".

Short videos Research Project about the social and political movementY’en a Marre and the senegalese Wrestling, Dakar, Senegal. Youtube channel /yolanda gutiérrez & projects

2012

DANZAFUTURA IIDance und Live Music – Lange Nacht der Theater / Kampnagel.

Artist Residency with dancers and choreographers from Afrika and Europa in L’ecole de Sables, Toubab Dialaw, Senegal.

Love and other drugs Balkony Performances for Altona macht auf/ Theater Altonale, Hamburg.

Axel & AxelDoku-fiction Theatre with Wrestling, Video and Live Music.

Romeo in Julias Revier Tanz-Theatre School Project / Schule am See, Hamburg.

SUPERHERO ACADEMY-The finalDance Theatre School Project with Wrestling and Videos /Kampnagel.

Romeo vs. Romeo Dance Theatre with Wrestling and Live Music / Kampnagel.

2011

DANZAFUTURA Dance and Live Music, Lange Nacht der Theater / Kampnagel

SUPERHERO ACADEMY Work in progress,Festival eigenarten.

2010

SUPERHERO Dance theatre, Wrestling, Music and Film for the Opening of the Theatre session 2010-2011 at Kampnagel.

Superhero AcademySchool project at the Stadtteilschule am Hafen (Standort Neustadt-HH)- Nominated by the Berliner Festspiele-Theatertreffen der Jugend / Berlin.

The Wrestler & the Dancer -reloaded- Lange Nacht der Theater / Kampnagel.

my dance room 2010 Probebühne eins /K3 Center for Choreography / Kampnagel

2009

The Wrestler & the Dancer work in progress Dance, Wrestling and Video. Kulturhaus 73, Festival eigenarten, Hamburg.

about lucha libreProbebühne eins/K3 Center for Choreography, Hamburg/ Videoscreening: "about lucha libre" The Body Navigation Festival, St. Petersburg, Russland.

Video dokumentation “dance beyond borders” European dance project

2008

my dance room 35 Migrants dance with their own music at their homes. Afterwards six of them were invited to be part of the piece. The project was made specially for a gallery space. The renowned dance magazine "ballet.tanz" (today TANZ) brought an article about the project.
Choreography and Video: Yolanda Gutiérrez.

The Agaricus-Monument Dance Performance with Champignons and lecture Performance from Hannimari Jokinen and Yolanda Gutiérrez performing at the Bismarck Denkmal, Near the castle Bergedorf, Hamburg. www.goingpublic-bergedorf.de

Impulso Music Composition by Moxi Beidenegl (Argentina) for a dancer and four musicians for the contemporary music festival in Hamburg blurred edges. Dance: Yolanda Gutiérrez.

2007


Article“Dance meets Catchen”an article about the approach between Dance and Wrestling. For the magazine “Zeitschrift für kulturelle Initiativen des Landesverbandes Soziokultur Hamburg”, „querlight“ / April. Author: Yolanda Gutiérrez

Shortfilm "Gulliver" for the Italian-German Theatre Group ”inteatro” from Marina Siena. Director and Camera: Yolanda Gutiérrez

Shortfilm „Der Noodle Mann“ about the handmade Noodles, made by the chinese moslems in the city of Xiamen, China, Abaton Kino / Kinometer 5 – Filmmakers Collective
“Mondschein cinema” for the Programm “ExportImport” in Tschernowitz, Ucraine.
Zeise Kinos – Shortfilm Slam
Director and Camera: Yolanda Gutiérrez.

2006

Murphys Fall ((U+C+I) x (10-S))/20 x A x 1/(1-sin(F/10)) A Performance about Murphys Theory for 7 Performers in six days. http://www.flickriver.com/groups/murphysfall/pool/interesting/ Performance: Yolanda Gutiérrez

Authenticity and integration A Videodocumentation about the 7.Edition of the Festival eigenarten. Director and Kamera: Yolanda Gutiérrez

2005

KörperbäckereiSolo Performance with Dough and Bread for MAGIC LIGHT –Dance Project in Containers - and at the Festival eigenarten. http://www.tanzinitiative.de/cms/de/magic-light/
Choreography and Performance: Yolanda Gutiérrez

The made of, Video Pop Show for Hamburger Scholars Idea: Katharina Oberlik. With: Katharina Oberlik und Yolanda Gutiérrez.

Shooting for the shortfilm
„Der Noodle Mann“ in Xiamen China / Director and Camera: Y. Gutiérrez

Two Monsters (“Du hast angefangen, nein du!”) A dance theatre project for Kids.
Director: Yolanda Gutiérrez www.buehnebumm.de

Tafel Tanz A solo Dance and culinaric Performance Project with Short Videos and Live Cooking, Zelttheater Festival / 150% made in Hamburg

Boys don´t cry Theatre piece for empty houses. Director: David Chotjewitz. Choreography: Yolanda Gutiérrez

2004

Tafel Tanz , work in progress. Choreography and Performance: Yolanda Gutiérrez, Festival eigenarten, Hamburg.

2003

check point hope Improvisation Projectwith artists from different backgrounds in empty buildings (today Gängeviertel).Festival eigenarten, Hamburg. Concept and Dance: Yolanda Gutiérrez

quick instant soup II, a dance video. Premiere in Abaton Kino as Preview of „Journey to Kandahar“;, Hamburg.
Film Festival „Cinetlive in Osaka, Japan
Intercultural Shortfilm day „Identity and the searching of the roots“ goldbekHaus,Hamburg.
Director and Performance: Yolanda Gutiérrez

Sehnsuchtsformeln a Multimedia Installation from the artist Hannimari Jokinen with differents artists. Guest: Yolanda Gutiérrez
www.festival-eigenarten.de/sehnsuchtsformeln

2002

Shortfilm "quick instant soup" Premiere at the cinema Abaton as Preview of the mexican movie „amores perros“ and for the US american movie „Super Size Me“.
Intercultural Shortfilm day „Identity and the searching of the roots“ , goldbekhaus, Hamburg

Teacher at Center of Choreography in Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico.

2001

origen.nullpunkt Dance, Video and Music Project between Germany and Mexico with dancers from Spain,Germany and Sweden. Six weeks we were living together in a small town in Morelos, México. We research together the influence of natur and ´culturet in the body in an unknown environment. The daily routine become part of the work aswell as the daily riuals, we were sharing. Choreography: Yolanda Gutiérrez.

Visiones de Gaia, Dance Video, Director and Dance: Yolanda Gutiérrez. For the Dance Project “überMutter”/ “About mother” from the choreographer Antje Pfundtner.

1999

flesh & bone,Dance performance for two dancers and one actress. Festival eigenarten, Hamburg.
Choreography: Yolanda Gutiérrez.

1995-1998

Short choreographies and other works, who were shown in Off-Theatres in Hamburg City.



 

Sponsors and Institutions, supporting my work:

Beauftragter der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien

Fonds Darstellende Künste

DACHVERBAND TANZ DEUTSCHLAND

NEUSTART KULTUR

DIEHL&RITTER-Tanzpakt-reconnect

MARKK-Museum

Nationales Performance Netz

Kulturstiftung des Bundes

Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen

Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung

Internationale Kulturfabrik Kampnagel

Goethe Institut Mexiko

Goethe Institut Hamburg

Goethe Institut Ruanda

Goethe Institut Senegal

German Embassy Uganda

Goethe Zentrum Kampala

Behörde für Kultur und Medien

Hamburgische Kulturstiftung

Rudolf Augstein Stiftung

Ministerium für Familie, Jugend, Kulturund Sport des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen

Stiftung Maritim

BürgerStiftung Hamburg

Norddeutsche Stiftung für Umwelt und Entwicklung

Interkullturelles Festival eigenarten