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) received her BFA in dance performance from Adelphi University, graduating Summa Cum Laude. At AU, she performed the works of Martha Graham, Orion Duckstein, Takehiro Ueyama, Paul Taylor, and Jiří Kylián. Nicole recently joined the cast of Handspring Puppet Company's The Walk with Little Amal as a puppeteer and toured throughout NYC for her first time in America.

Her most recent commercial credits include Rowenta fans, Hershey Park, Graco Strollers, Hendrick's Gin, an exclusive industrial with internationally renowned choreographer Nikos Lagousakos in the Aditya Birla Group Awards. a  PBS ALL ARTS Climate Artists Series where her work with Ery Taylor Dance was a featured episode, a featured dancer in Louis van Amstel's La Blast for DailyBurn, a performer in Amazon's The Marvelous Ms. Maisel, and performing background for popstar Meredith O'Connor during New York Fashion Week and the United Nations Youth Summit. Nicole has also worked for project-based choreographers Jaclyn Walsh (KEIGWIN + COMPANY), Chris Bell, Amy Marshall, Kristina Harris, Hollye Bynum, Natalia Roberts, Joelle Consentino, Eryc Taylor, and MaryJohn Frank.

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