A New York City resident, Miguel was born in Mexico and holds BFA degrees in Dance and Theatre from the Universidad de las Américas Puebla. He has performed throughout Europe, Canada, Mexico and the US, and he has presented work in festivals and venues such as ImPulsTanz in Vienna, Performatica in Puebla, Stoff Fringe Festival in Stockholm, IF ONLY in Ireland, Mains d’Oeuvres in Paris, OpenFLR in Florence, Danspace, Triskelion Arts, and Movement Research at the Judson Church in New York City. Miguel has also performed and studied extensively in Tel Aviv and Berlin. In Mexico, he received numerous honors from the National Council for Culture and Arts, Puebla’s State Arts Council, and fromthe National Fund for Culture and Arts.
Miguel is an ongoing collaborator of Romanian choreographer Alexandra Pirici. Together, they have presented durational works such as Co-Natural (New Museum NYC 2018), Threshold (The High Line Art NYC 2017), Re-Collection (Chicago Architecture Biennial 2019). He also appeared in the Museum of Modern Art’s six- month retrospective Judson Dance Theater: The Work Is Never Done (2018-2019) curated by Ana Janevski and Thomas Lax performing seminal works by Simone Forti and Deborah Hay with whom he has worked with since 2012.
In the summer of 2019 Miguel performed alongside Berlin-based choreographer Ligia Lewis in her piece Sensation 1/This Interior commissioned by The High Line in New York City. He also worked with New York-based artists Sxip Shirey and Coco Karol in their large-scale public installation titled The Gauntlet commissioned by The Rockefeller Center and presented by National Sawdust. In 2020 he wrapped a performance engagement titled Dressing Up for Civil Rights under multidisciplinary artist Pope.L’s direction, curated by Stuart Comer, at New York City’s Museum of Modern Art. He also collaborated with Chicago-based artist Shawnée Michaelain Holloway for her work _SUITABLE_FOR.EXE[CUTION]. at Performance Space New York in 2021. During that period, Miguel graduated from the Terry Knickerbocker Studio in the summer of 2022 where he deepened his craft as an actor, studying a two-year Meisner Technique program.
In the field of film, Miguel has starred in independent short films Socialization Chamber (2019) written and directed by Suz Murray Sadler and Moving (2022) written and directed by Azmi Mert Erdem. He participated in Amanda Palmer’s music videos Mother and Drowning in the Sound as well as in Sharon Van Etten’s Headspace. In 2023 he worked with Montréal-based artist Damián Siqueiros in a new audiovisual installation named Terrarium premiering at Age Of Union Center and, he recently wrapped an untitled dance film by artist Barnett Cohen in New York City.
The last year and a half Miguel has been seen in the revival of Robert Whitman’s American Moon, commissioned by Pace Gallery and produced by Sasha Okshteyn in New York City; performing in Madeline Hollander’s Hydro Parade at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and in Pentagon Dance at Hill Art Foundation; in Ligia Lewis’s study now steady at the Center for Art, Research and Alliances as well as in MoMA’s revival of Joan Jonas’ Mirror Piece I & II under the direction of Nefeli Skarmea. Miguel just wrapped his latest six month engagement performing Alexandra Pirici’s Attune at the Hamburger Bahnhof in Berlin.
Photo credit: Vazha Kuchuloria