Super Nothing
(premieres at New York Live Arts in 2025)

Super Nothing is a new quartet for performers from New York (Justin Faircloth, Wendell Gray II) and Los Angeles (Jay Carlon, Evelyn Sanchez Narvaez). 

What can a dance do to confront the constant grief that we experience in our lives? Super Nothing presents four dancers whose actions 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. This piece extends Gutierrez’s interest over the past few years in creating “choreography for the end of the world.”

Super Nothing premieres at New York Live Arts Live Artery Festival January 12-18, 2025 as the culmination of the 2023-24 Randjelović/Stryker Resident Commissioned Artist program. Return to Home Page for upcoming tour dates.

Choreographer: Miguel Gutierrez
Performers: Jay Carlon, Justin Faircloth, Wendell Gray II, Evelyn Sanchez Narvaez
with contributions from Ajani Brannum
Music composed by: Rosana Cabán with contributions from Miguel Gutierrez
Lighting: Carolina Ortiz
Costumes: Jeremy Wood
Dramaturgy: Stephanie Acosta
Additional movement contributions by Marty Kudelka and Kathryn Hunter
Some of the dance material in Super Nothing was generated from contributions from past collaborators: Michelle Boulé, Hilary Clark, Luke George, K.J. Holmes, mickey mahar, James McGinn.

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 premieres 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 American Dance Festival 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, American Dance Festival and The Field Center.

All photos by Amelia Golden.
Pictured above and below, l to r, Wendell Gray II, Evelyn Sanchez Narvaez, Jay Carlon, Justin Faircloth