Miguel Gutierrez: Super Nothing

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.”