Estrellx (they/them) is an Afro-Guatemalan-American choreographer, performer, curator-creative producer, and writer. Their performance alias, EHQS, is the root component of their macro-vision called The Universe of Rhizomatic Tenderness (TUoRT), an emerging ecosystem designed to empower Queer and Trans Creatives of the Global Majority through healing-based social choreographies. Choreographically, Estrellx integrates club spaces as sites of generative dissonance, as sites for their embodied unraveling and integration. Estrellx insists on asking, “Are we celebrating or mourning or both? What do you really want and how exactly do you want it? How can the notion of quantum entanglement support us with co-creating erotically potent futures?” Estrellx implements Qi Energetic principles, divination, opaque systems of improvisation, sonic scripts, and eco-drag into their ritualistic performative language. Estrellx has choreographed several solo and collaborative works including: Animate, Intimate (Cycle 1): Points of Encounter (Culturgest – 2023), Real Talk #2: VERSE (CPR – 2022), and they are currently distilling their choreo-somatic research into a tarot deck called El Tarot de Quebrantamiento, which they are aiming to publish by Fall 2025. Estrellx has recently received a New Jersey Individual Artist Fellowship Award (2023), Djerassi Residency (2022), Creative Capital Award (2020), San Francisco Arts Commission (SFAC) Individual Artist Grant Award (2019), a Princess Grace in Choreography Award (2019), amongst other awards.
The Switch or WHORE Anthem_cycle 1 The Switch or WHORE Anthem_cycle 1 is a solo performance that unfolds within an imaginary dark room where edging is foregrounded and foreplay is extended, where the tension between words and psychosomatic states moves in and out of obscurity and opacity. The Switch asks, Is a protest a protest if it cannot be heard, seen, or felt? What other forms of subtle, rhizomatic, telepathic, and erotic protesting are possible to conjure within the realm of the unseen?
“Thank you thank you and thank you to everyone who made this residency (Black Artist Space to Create) possible. These past two weeks have been a blessing! Not only have I been able to deepen my own personal/artistic practices, I was given the space to connect with people that I love! I was given space to reflect on love, and to prepare for what this next year (2021) will bring! Shout out to New Dance Alliance, Modern Accord Depot and Angie Pittman for the time, the space, and opportunity! I am forever grateful! It felt like a good meal, with dessert!”
– Johnnie Cruise Mercer
New Dance Alliance
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