Estrellx Supernova embodies a they/them energetics and is an Afro-Guatemalan-American choreographer, performer, curator, and writer. Their artistic alias, EHQS, is the root component of their macro vision called The Universe of Rhizomatic Tenderness (TUoRT), an emerging ecosystem centering embodiment, the healing arts, and erotic excavation that is being designed by and for Queer, Trans Creatives of the Global Majority and Allies. Choreographically, Estrellx integrates club spaces as sites of generative dissonance and asks, “Are we celebrating or mourning or both? What do you really want and how exactly do you want it? How can quantum entanglement support us with co-creating alternative and equitable futures?” They implement [task as meditation, divergent simultaneity, Qi Energetics, divination, subtle Butoh energy, and eco-drag] into their ritualistic performative language. Estrellx has choreographed several solo and collaborative works including: Real Talk #2: confessions of a stone whore, VERSE (2022), underground underneath the underground, prelude (2021), Real Talk #1: vectors of adverse desires (2020), death by disco pt. 1 – 3 (2019), Lxs Desparecidxs (2017), never arriving (2016).
They are currently in the process of choreographing Animate, Intimate (2023) and are also distilling their research into a tarot deck called El Tarot de Quebrantamiento (2024). Estrellx has recently received a Djerassi Residency (2022), Creative Capital Award (2020), San Francisco Arts Commission (SFAC) Individual Artist Grant Award (2019), Princess Grace in Choreography Award (2019), an Impulstanz danceWEB Scholarship (2019), a National Association of Latino Arts & Cultures (NALAC) Individual Artist Grant (2019), amongst others, and self-designed a B.A. in Dance & Performance Studies at Williams College that included an exchange semester at Bennington College and studying abroad in Berlin, Germany at Tanzfabrik.
