Super Nothing is a new dance performance by artist and choreographer Miguel Gutierrez. It draws on his personal archive of performance to see how the past can provide a blueprint for a new future. The work features a diverse ensemble of performers from New York and Los Angeles—Gutierrez’s two artistic and professional homes—and asks how the dynamics of an art-making process reflect or deny the dynamics of life outside the studio. Can choreography be a reflection of the desires, insecurities, and personal investments of those present during its creation? Reflecting on his creative process, Gutierrez writes that “Making – engaging all of the folks who make it happen, creating intentional time, accepting insecurity and imperfection, practicing joy, inventing inside jokes in rehearsal and crying when we must – IS A BLUEPRINT FOR SURVIVAL.” Extending his interest in creating “choreography for the end of the world,” Super Nothing searches for what a dance can do to confront the constant grief that we experience in our lives.
Support
Super Nothing is co-commissioned by New York Live Arts, CAP UCLA, and MCA Chicago with support from the National Performance Network. Super Nothing is 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.
