February 28 - March 2, 2025
West Coast Premiere
ODC Theater
How can a dance speak to the overwhelming and constant grief that undergirds our lives? How do the dynamics of an art-making process reflect or deny the dynamics of life outside the studio? What gets cast aside? What is preserved? What possibilities linger on the periphery or in between the things we pay attention to? In Super Nothing, movement and choreographic relationships are analogues for how people support each other to survive. Interdependence takes multiple forms, as the performers move through representations of the past to create a blueprint for a new future.
Inspired by bell hooks' statement that "Moving, we confront the realities of choice and location," the four performers of Super Nothing navigate a shifting physical terrain of intimacy, negotiation, and pent up feeling to create a world where we rethink what it means to come together.
Miguel Gutierrez is a multi-disciplinary artist based in Lenapehoking/Brooklyn, NY and Tovaangar/Los Angeles. He creates empathetic and irreverent spaces for himself and other QTBIPOC folx to dream, reflect, and find agency. His work has been presented nationally and internationally in venues such as Festival d’Automne/Paris, the Walker Art Center, and in the 2014 Whitney Biennial. He is a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, United States Artists Fellowship, Foundation for Contemporary Arts Award, four NY Dance and Performance “Bessie” Awards, and a 2016 Doris Duke Artist Award. He is an Associate Professor of Choreography and Vice Chair of the MFA Program at UCLA in the department of World Arts and Cultures/Dance. www.miguelgutierrez.org
Super Nothing was commissioned, produced and presented by New York Live Arts as part of the Randjelović /Stryker Resident Commissioned Artist Program, with lead support from Mellon Foundation. Super Nothing premiered during New York Live Arts 24-25 season. Super Nothing was additionally co-commissioned by On the Boards/Seattle, Center for the Art of Performance/UCLA, MCA Chicago and ADF with support from the Doris Duke/SHS Foundations Award for New Works. Super Nothing is a National Performance Network (NPN) Creation & Development Fund Project co-commissioned by New York Live Arts and NPN. The Creation & Development Fund is supported by the Doris Duke Foundation, the Mellon Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts (a federal agency). For more information: www.npnweb.org Super Nothing was made possible with generous support from Café Royal Cultural Foundation and developed with residency support from Maggie Allesee National Center for Choreography at Florida State University, UCLA's Center for the Art of Performance, Pillow Lab at Jacob’s Pillow, UCLA and The Field Center.
Friday, February 28, 2025 at 7:30pm
Saturday, March 1, 2025 at 7:30pm
Sunday, March 2, 2025 at 5:00pm
ODC offers a limited number of free and/or lower-cost Art Access tickets to every ODC presented performance. These additionally subsidized tickets, available on a first-come, first-serve basis, are reserved for those for whom price is a barrier.
ODC is ADA Accessible. Additional wheelchair seating is provided for select shows. Getting to second floor studios in the ODC Dance Commons and ODC Theater involves riding an elevator or climbing one flight of stairs. The majority of the ODC Annex is carpeted. ODC Theater and ODC Annex restrooms are All-Gender, and in the ODC Dance Commons, All-Gender restrooms are located on the second floor. For all ODC/Dance and ODC Theater presented performances, ASL is provided for shows with performed text for at least one performance during the show run.
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