Jeanine durning biography examples
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Julian Barnett and Jeanine Durning. To Being at Judson Church, May 2015. Photo by Ian Douglas.
“I’m gonna show you my soul, there, the sole of my foot,” she says.
“…she says, as she faces her frontal plane towards your sagittal plane,” she says.
“I mean, Judson has left the building, right? Did I just say that?” she says.
I must be paraphrasing.
Jeanine Durning doesn’t weight any phrase more than any other in inging, and I wasn’t taking notes. (I am adamant that a person should not take notes during performance.) Rather, her stream-of-consciousness quite literally streams. We are riding the rapids.
In inging, Durning speaks, without stopping, without script, for roughly 30 minutes.
I first caught wind of inging, “part-spoken word performance, part reverie, part dance, part oral biography, part meditation and psychotherapy”, when Durning performed the work as part of American Realness in 2013. What caught my interest was the title.
inging; A more delightfully succin
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Jeanine Durning
Based in NYC, Jeanine Durning’s work as a choreographer, performer and teacher is rooted in the physical body and the multiplicity of its expression and experience. She sees these aspects of her practice (making, performing and teaching) as integral to and informing each other. She has collaborated as a performer in the work of Deborah Hay, Susan Rethorst, Chris Yon, David Dorfman, Lance Gries, Bebe Miller, Martha Clarke and others.
Since 1998, Durning has been creating both solo and group performances on a project grund with a core group of collaborators. In New York, Dance Theatre kurs and Danspace Project have supported her choreographic work. She has received numerous commissions from Universities, independent performers and repertory companies to create original work.
Central to her creative interests and choreographic practice in the last few years are the overlapping ideas of memory, biography and documentary, within and through the structure of live p
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Virtual performance/dancing/making with Jeanine Durning
Description of the practice:
the revolution inside
based on a practice i call nonstopping, i’ll offer some non-theoretical strategies for getting closer to the mind that moves the body/ies that you move through. this is a lab for personal process and action toward the fluid consideration of choreographic thinking. through sometimes languaging, and possibly writing, but mostly moving, we’ll tune to the complexities of our unfolding ecologies, sharpen our responsiveness to the multiplicities of our emergent materials, and empower ourselves to the probable poetics of our micro choices.
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***All Virtual events will be held on Zoom.
***This is a professional level practice. Previous experience in improvisation and/or improvisational dance making is a must. Open to all dance genres! If you have questions, please PM Zornitsa.
***Practice 1 and 2 will be the same, and people can sign up for o