ABOUT US
AJ GUEVARA
AJ Guevara (he/him) is a Filipino- American Artist hailing from Central Coast California. He earned his BFA in Dance & Choreography from Virginia Commonwealth University, with additional training from the Accademia dell’ Arte (Arezzo, Italy), Shen Wei Dance Arts, and The American Dance Festival as a scholarship recipient.He is currently working with The Metropolitan Opera, Tiffany Mills Company, and Company SBB/Stefanie Batten Bland. He has also had the honor of working with AXIS Dance Company, Abarukas, Emursive Productions, Heidi Latsky Dance, and Company|E, among others.He has also performed the works of Jennifer Archibald, Bill T Jones, Doug Varone, Marc Brew, Robin Dekkers, Rachel Erdos, Jodi Melnick, Walter Matteini, Thomas Noone, Robert Priore,Joshua Peugh, Arthur Pita, Annie Rigney, Gavin Stewart & Vanessa Owens, Jawole Willa Jo Zollar, and Shen Wei Dance Arts, among others.His work with Company|E, in partnership with the US State Department, has allowed him to serve as an Artistic Diplomat for Cultural Exchange to Israel, Cuba, The UK, Palestine, Uruguay, Qatar, Thailand, Tunisia and the UAE.AJ’s dedicated advocacy work with GIBNEY Education, ETD Outreach, AXIS Dance Company, and Local Motion Project, among others, strives to create accessible spaces, inclusive practices and social equity within the dance realm. He has shared practices and choreography with communities in Armenia, Croatia, Dominican Republic, Romania,The Netherlands, Switzerland, Mexico and domestic engagements across the US.nicole baker
Nicole Baker (she/her) is a movement artist, educator, and creative director working at the intersection of dance, storytelling, and digital media. Her career spans concert dance, theater, puppetry, cultural diplomacy, and e-commerce innovation.
Nicole has performed with Yaa Samar! Dance Theatre under Samar Haddad King in Gathering as part of The Shed’s Open Call Program, and toured nationally and internationally as a principal dancer and rehearsal director with Eryc Taylor Dance, performing across South Korea, Mexico, and the U.S. She also toured extensively with Handspring Puppet Company and The Walk Productions in The Walk with Little Amal, performing in front of thousands of people across more than 20 countries and states, collaborating with hundreds of community partners. Additionally, she performed with Company E on their UAE tour of The Pearl Diver’s Daughter, a cultural diplomacy initiative.
Most recently, she was a featured dancer in Remain, the upcoming film by M. Night Shyamalan and Nicholas Sparks—a project that deepened her commitment to cinematic storytelling through movement. She also collaborated with Kelly Bartnik on a new Omega Industrial project hosted by Ariana DeBose, blending physical theater, storytelling, and immersive choreography.
Nicole was in residence at Colgate University with Joshua Gelb’s Theater in Quarantine, performing in Nosferatu, and served as associate choreographer for Long Wharf Theatre’s She Loves Me under Chris Bell and Artistic Director Jacob G. Padrón.
Her choreographic and community-based work includes founding everydaymoves, through which she developed an arts education program in the Yucatán in collaboration with Compañía Umbral Danza Contemporánea, local schools, and underserved communities. She has taught in studios, community centers, and corporate wellness spaces including Equinox, Spotify, PayPal, and BarkBox, and is a NASM-certified trainer with a focus on Pilates and barre.
Outside the studio, Nicole is a partner and creative director of Ecomm Cartel, an e-commerce marketing agency that bridges the gap between data analytics and artistic creativity to drive scalable DTC growth. She oversees all creative content, specializing in graphic design, product photography, and brand storytelling.
Nicole holds a BFA in Dance Performance from Adelphi University, graduating summa cum laude. She is passionate about building inclusive, accessible movement experiences—and believes that dance is a shared language, one that transforms both the dancer and the communities they move through.
N/A Dances is the creative collaboration of NYC-Based performers and educators, Nicole Baker and AJ Guevara. Their work builds landscapes for the proscenium and cinematic spaces, connecting vast ranges of audiences through socially informed themes of authentic connection whilst flirting with the dualities of concreteness and abstraction. Their creative process and pedagogic approach stems from their work in the physically-integrated dance field, artistic diplomacy for cultural exchange, and their extensive international touring experience which cumulatively has reached communities in over 20 countries