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ON STAGE 2025

Miguel Gutierrez, Super Nothing

March 28, 20257:30 pm

March 29, 20257:30 pm

March 30, 20252:00 pm

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About the Performance

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.

Access Information

Audio description and English CART captioning are available for the performance on Saturday, March 29. To request additional accessibility services, please contact us via email at [email protected] or call 312-397-4076.

Audio description available.

About the Artist

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.

Funding

Lead support for the 2024–25 season of MCA Performance is provided by Elizabeth A. Liebman.

Generous support is provided by Ginger Farley and Bob Shapiro, Martha Struthers Farley and Donald C. Farley, Jr. Family Foundation, N.A., Trustee; Anne L. Kaplan; and Carol Prins and John Hart/The Jessica Fund.

The MCA is a proud member of the Museums in the Park and receives major support from the Chicago Park District.