About Phyllis Gutelius
Phyllis Gutelius performed internationally as a leading dancer with the Martha Graham Dance Company.
Her performances in Graham’s roles, which balanced technical brilliance with dramatic depth and integrity, received critical acclaim in New York and throughout the world. The training which served as the foundation both for her performance and teaching career has been multi-faceted and privileged; including tutelage under Martha Graham, Merce Cunningham, José Limon, Bertram Ross, Yuriko and other noted contemporary teachers; and with Antony Tudor, Igor Schwezoff, Elena Tchernishova, Sulamith Messerer, Margaret Craske and many other respected classical teachers.
Phyllis Gutelius is a choreographer, teacher, lecturer, director and dance videographer
PERFORMANCE: Deaths and Entrances
“For the deaths of the title are the deaths of the heart, and they were transmitted in this performance by Phyllis Gutelius in the Emily role with such savage intensity that the effect was almost unbearable. There is an inner violence to the solos Miss Graham composed for herself in 1943, and the way she fragmented the movements to restrain the dance unexpectedly each time she appears too move forward is still astonishing. There is always danger of prosaic neuroticism in Ms Gutelius’s dancing, but here it took the form of eloquent anguish and desperation. Every sudden fall, every quiver, every sharp turn took his effect.”
“The central sister (powerful dramatized by Phyllis Gutelius) … Her mad scene … one of the classic tour de forces of modern dance … It’s unforgettable” - Rob Baker, Dance Magazine
… Miss Graham’s own role, now frenetically and tragically taken by Phyllis Gutelius …
Clive Barnes, New York Times
The Chess Game
Dark Beloved: William Carter | Light Beloved: Eric Newton
End:
The Sisters: Diane Grey, Janet Eilber
Death and Entrances:
Photo by Beverly Gallegos
Phyllis Gutelius
has guested as a teacher, lecturer, and choreographer at universities across the United States and internationally in the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Italy, Austria, Taiwan, and Mexico.
She has had in-depth and extensive experience with Carola Trier, who assisted Joseph Pilates in sport training; with Dr. Anthony Meduri, the co-founder of the Sport Training Institute in NYC; and she is certified to teach Hatha Yoga by the Integral Yoga Institute in New York City.
As a Videographer she first produced, directed, and wrote
the Martha Graham Technique three part instructional program “Contemporary Dance Training, the Gutelius Class” with the generous co-operation of her students and colleagues at Het Nationale Ballet Akademie and with support from Het Nationale Ballet in Amsterdam.
The production of a second Graham based program “Guidelines in Contemporary Dance Training” was produced with the co-operation of students and colleagues at Tanecni Conservatoriat Brno and with support from the Theater Instituut Amsterdam, the Kylian Foundation, Nederlands Dans Theater, and the Dutch Ministry of Education.