How can a dance speak to the overwhelming and constant grief that undergirds our lives?
Super Nothing is a new dance performance by Miguel Gutierrez that works with archive to see how our past can provide a blueprint for a more rigorous honesty in the present. The piece is danced by performers from New York and Los Angeles. How do the dynamics of an art-making process reflect or deny the dynamics of life outside the studio? How is choreography a reflection of the desires, insecurities, and personal investments of the people in the room? How can a dance speak to the overwhelming and constant grief that undergirds our lives?
bell hooks writes that, “Moving, we confront the realities of choice and location.” Thinking about movement in both the dance and geographic sense of the word, this piece engages with our ideas about place/home, time, history, and the strength and failings of “community.”
In the Press
“Spring Arts in Seattle” by Rachel Gallaher for Seattle Magazine | March 18, 2025
“A Dance That Wonders ‘What Will Happen to Us?’” by Siobhan Burke for The New York Times | January 13, 2025
“Stephanie Acosta and Miguel Gutierrez by Amit Noy” for BOMB Magazine | January 17, 2025
Artists
Team
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Miguel Gutierrez | Choreographer, Performer, Sound Design, Text, Costumes
Jay Carlon | Performer/Collaborator
Evelyn Lilian Sanchez Narvaez | Performer/Collaborator
Justin Faircloth | Performer/Collaborator
Wendell Gray II | Performer/Collaborator
Carolina Ortiz | Lighting Designer
Rosana Cabán | Composer
Jeremy Wood | Costume Designer
Stephanie Acosta | Dramaturgical Assistant
Michelle Fletcher | Manager
Ajani Brannum, Marty Kudelka, Kathryn Hunter | Additional movement contributors
Super Nothing was commissioned, produced, and presented by New York Live Arts as part of the Randjelović /Stryker Resident Commissioned Artist Program, with lead support from the Mellon Foundation. Super Nothing premiered during the New York Live Arts 24-25 season.
Super Nothing was additionally co-commissioned by On the Boards/Seattle, Center for the Art of Performance/UCLA, MCA Chicago, and ADF with support from the Doris Duke/SHS Foundations Award for New Works and the National Endowment for the Arts.
Super Nothing is a National Performance Network (NPN) Creation & Development Fund Project co-commissioned by New York Live Arts and NPN. The Creation & Development Fund is supported by the Doris Duke Foundation, the Mellon Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts (a federal agency). For more information: www.npnweb.org
Super Nothing was made possible with generous support from Café Royal Cultural Foundation and developed with residency support from Maggie Allesee National Center for Choreography at Florida State University, UCLA's Center for the Art of Performance, Pillow Lab at Jacob’s Pillow, American Dance Festival and The Field Center.
