Miguel Gutierrez, Super Nothing

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.