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?
“It was a pleasure and an honor to be part of Performance Mix Festivals #31 (Infinite Corridor) and #36 (Meeting the Moai: Head Over Heels.) In both instances, the artists were made to feel welcomed and truly celebrated for their work, as reflected by attention to publicity, technical needs, and convivial gatherings.This festival truly practices diversity, equity, and inclusion, as manifested in their roster of performing artists each year. Big thanks to New Dance Alliance, Karen Bernard, and the entire Performance Mix Festival team who make it such a fulfilling and joyful experience for artists and audiences alike.”
– Hortense Gerardo
New Dance Alliance
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