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Image Description: Luis Ordaz Gutiérrez wears an indigo shawl with embroidered indigenous motifs and a deep plunging V neckline that extends from one collar bone to the other. He is dramatically lit and appears to be floating out of a pitch-black background. He is a brown-skin Mexican man with a goatee beard and a styled mustache that curls up at each end. He gazes directly towards you with a slight angle of his head. Photo by TheArtist JohnnyV.
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Tonkawa, Comanche, Apache lands; Austin, TX
Luis Ordaz Gutiérrez is an award-winning theater director, writer, dancer, producer, and an all-around Latinx performance artist based in Austin, Texas. As a U.S. immigrant who was originally born in Mexico City, his work is a triangulation of historical research, cultural investigation, and unconventional theater & dance design to explore the collective Latinx experience in the United States and abroad. Since 2008, Luis has served as the artistic director of ProyectoTEATRO, Austin’s premiere Spanish-language performing arts company, whose mission is to empower recent immigrants, bicultural communities, and 1st generation families through socially-conscious arts programming in Spanish.
In the context of social justice and civil society, Luis Ordaz Gutiérrez works with local institutions, state agencies, and national organizations as a consultant to develop socially-innovative and arts-driven strategies that approach community engagement of Latinx / Latin-American communities through a lens of cultural sensitivity and social equity. Notable collaborations include the Mexican Secretary of Foreign Affairs, Texas Civil Rights Project, Engineers Without Borders, and the City of Austin.
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