June 7, 5pm
Rain Date: June 8, 1pm
28 Liberty Street
FREE, Drop-In
Participants are encouraged to wear fun and celebratory clothing. Get ready to dance!

Accessibility: This performance will be accessible via a wide staircase and ramp from Pine Street to the south of the Plaza.

Miguel Gutierrez presents an interactive, high-energy dance performance complete with group choreography, aerobics, and costumes. Come in costume and learn the famous “Aerobicon” dance that Miguel created to Le Tigre’s “Deceptacon” in 2000. Way before TikTok, this dance was a viral hit in the early days of YouTube that was then recreated by people all over the world in duos, small groups, and giant crowds. Miguel will revive this dance and create a powerful public spectacle reminiscent of the cardiovascularly challenging and spiritually charged but now defunct DEEP AEROBICS technique that he taught and disseminated for ten years. This participatory spectacle questions how we keep moving amidst the chaos of everyday life exuberant joy, and systemic injustice.

“Aerobicon” was originally created in collaboration with performer Howie Rigberg. It is performed to Le Tigre’s “Deceptacon.” Miguel Gutierrez is an artist-in-residence with LMCC’s Extended Life Dance Development Program supported, in part, by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

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