Miguel Gutierrez, Super Nothing

Miguel Gutierrez is a multidisciplinary dance artist and Feldenkrais Method practitioner living between Lenapehoking/Brooklyn, NY, and Tovaangar/Los Angeles. His work creates empathetic, irreverent, and reflective spaces for himself and other QTPOC folx and centers attention as a means to unravel normative belief systems. Recent work includes I as another, which looks at the virtual architecture of memory, and sueño, a bilingual music project of melancholy songs. He is an Associate Professor of Choreography at UCLA in the Department of World Arts and Cultures/Dance, where he also serves as the Vice-Chair of the MFA program in Choreographic Inquiry. Gutierrez is the 2023–2024 New York Live Arts Randjelović/Stryker Resident Commissioned Artist (RCA). The culmination of this residency is the premiere of Super Nothing, a quartet that works with the archive to identify new possibilities for coming together.

Jay Carlon (Performer/Collaborator) (he/they) is a performance artist, choreographer, and community organizer whose work facilitates shared healing, exploring postcolonial identity, ancestry, and the complex queer/Filipinx experience. The youngest of 12 in a migrant family, Carlon connects a global network of AAPI creatives and communities. Named one of Dance Magazine’s “25 To Watch,” Carlon has shown work with the Filipino American National Historical Society, at REDCAT, homeLA, Lincoln Center, and more; and performed with The Industry Opera, Oguri, Bill T. Jones, and the Metropolitan Opera. Commercial work includes performance and choreography for Mndsgn, Kanye West, and Solange Knowles; and as associate director with aerial spectacle company Sway at the Olympics and Super Bowl.

Justin Faircloth (Performer/Collaborator) is a performing artist from North Carolina. Since relocating to New York, Justin has had the pleasure of working with Blaze Ferrer, Cherylyn Lavagnino, Doug LeCours, loveconductors, Jordan Lloyd, Rashaun Mitchell + Silas Riener, Maddie Schimmel, Third Rail Productions, Third Class Citizen, Erik Thurmond, Alexa West, Ash Yergens, Jessie Young, Abby Zbikowski, and others.

Wendell Gray II (Performer/Collaborator) is a dance artist, choreographer, and educator currently based in Brooklyn, NY, situated on Lenapehoking land. Gray’s artistic journey has led him to perform with a myriad of influential choreographers in contemporary, experimental, and concert dance. Those artists include Miguel Gutierrez, Pavel Zustiak, Tere O’Connor, Joanna Kotze, Jordan Demetrius Lloyd, Christal Brown, and Kevin Beasley, among many others. Gray’s original choreographic works have been shown on stages and platforms across the country. His original works have been showcased at venues such as Coffey Street Studios, Kinosaito Arts Center, Gibney, University of the Arts, Movement Research at Judson Church, Center for Performance Research, Chez Bushwick, Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance, and The Painted Bride. Gray is an alumnus of the University of the Arts, where he graduated with a BFA in Dance under the direction of Donna Faye Burchfield. Originally hailing from Atlanta, GA, his artistic journey has been enriched by a diverse range of influences.

Evelyn Lilian Sanchez Narvaez (Performer/Collaborator), aka evelina aka Letty Leticia aka ehd-dhe!!!!!, comes from cleaning houses with her mom! Excited, proud, and grateful, this saddie baddie continues to listen to the aprendizajes that “la limpieza” have gifted her. To See + To Do + To Be Thankful For All Of It. evelina is currently working on embodying healthy anger, the lawyer brain, and the movements of a soft tissue specialist. She has been apart of projects with Miguel Gutierrez, Jill Sigman, and Abby Zibikowski, and curated by Eva Yaa Asentwaa as a Gibney Dance Work Up 4.0 Artist. She is an art educator with Urban Art Beat & Elders Share The Arts, and an American Dance Festival, Gibney Dance, and Movement Research community member.

Carolina Ortiz Herrera (Lighting Designer) is a NY-based lighting designer for theater, opera, and dance. Born and raised in Mexico City, she tells stories through light to elevate the human experience to a universal language illuminating the complexity of the human experience. She thinks of light as an enigmatic yet subtle living force transporting an audience to “stand at the threshold” where a new understanding of our collective experience is revealed. Herrera has collaborated with many regional theaters across the United States, including Broadway. She is excited to continue a second collaboration with Miguel on this new piece. She is honored to have been featured on the 2nd Annual “Women to Watch List” from the Broadway Women’s Fund.

Rosana Cabán (Composer) is a Puerto Rican–born, Brooklyn-based artist. She uses sound, sculpture, and performance as mediums to probe problematic binaries such as masculinity and femininity and technology vs human progress. As a producer and recording artist, she is ½ of the collaborative music duo “cosas cosas” along with artist Gabo Camnitzer (“Mother Courage”, 2024). She has most notably performed at the Brooklyn Museum, National Sawdust, the Fillmore, Webster Hall, and at more than 80 rock venues across the US and Canada through touring with STRFKR, LadyHawke, the Generationals, and Sylvan Esso. Cabán holds an MFA in Sound Art from Columbia University and is a Berklee alum. She was a Marble House Project Artist in Residence in 2018, an Ace Hotel AIR 2017, and a guest collaborator for Lucas Artists Fellow Xandra Ibarra at Montalvo Arts Center in 2020. She is currently a Rockaway Artists Alliance Artist in Residence for the Summer 2024 session and a Teaching Assistant Professor at Stevens Institute.

Jeremy Wood (Costume Designer) is a designer and artist working in Brooklyn, NY. He currently designs for Brooklyn-based menswear brand Outlier, most recently under the creative direction of Willie Norris. A graduate from Pratt Institute, his work has been featured in Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar, Sports Illustrated, and multiple New York City–based publications. He has collaborated with various musicians including L’rain and Remi Wolf for digital and live performances.

Evan Hausthor (Production Stage Manager), originally from Topeka, Kansas, is a graduate from the University of North Carolina School of the Arts where he received his BFA in Stage Management. He is currently based in Brooklyn, NY, where his recent credits include work with Circus EVO, Pilobolus, and American Dance Festival. In his free time he enjoys reading, exploring new places, and meeting new people.

Michelle Fletcher (Manager) is a live performance maker, director, educator, artist manager, and psychodynamic therapist based in Catawba and Cherokee lands, colonially known as Greenville, SC. Fletcher earned her BFA from North Carolina School of the Arts, MFA from Florida State University, and MSW from NYU. Fletcher was a Fulbright Scholar at The Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance, teaching contemporary technique and dance technology. Her dances have been presented at ODC Theater, CounterPulse, Triskelion, and CPR. Fletcher’s film Dan’s House headlined the Dance for Camera Festival at Lincoln Center and San Francisco. She currently serves as manager to Miguel Gutierrez.