Episode 3: Jeanine Durning

"At the core of nonstopping is a very political stance of each individual, maintaining, cultivating, nurturing, sustaining the agency of their attention." -Jeanine Durning

We talk about: the practice of "nonstopping," embracing not knowing as a generative state, going before we're ready, sustainability as an artist, Steve Paxton, Deborah Hay, Pema Chodron, and much more….

ABOUT THE FEATURED ARTIST

Jeanine Durning is an Alpert Award winning choreographer and performer whose work has been described by The New Yorker as having both “the potential for philosophical revelation and theatrical disaster.” She has been investigating the mobilizing and mutable force of bodies and grappling with their conditions in time, space, and place for over 25 years through experiments in choreography, performance, practice-based research, teaching, and mentoring. Jeanine’s ongoing project,nonstopping, has been the foundation for her performance research since 2009, manifesting in many ways and contexts since. Jeanine has had the privilege to collaborate with several choreographers over the years, who have shaped her outlook on performance, including her mentor Deborah Hay, since 2005.

http://www.jeaninedurning.com/

@jeanine.i.dream

@thebodyisthebrain

REFERENCES/FURTHER READING

On Jeanine Durning'sLast Shelter for Candoco Dance Company

On Jeanine Durning's⁠Dogs of Devotion⁠

On Jeanine Durning's⁠dark matter, selfish portrait⁠ ( MANCC)

On Jeanine Durning's⁠inging andTo Being⁠ (Chocolate Factory)

Jeanine Durning,⁠nonstopping book

Eleanor Bauer,⁠ Workshop by Jeanine Durning⁠

Carl Phillips, Stamina

Deborah Hay, My Body, The Buddhist

Deborah Hay's website

Hope Mohr, Shedding a Split Self

Steve Paxton talking dance

Pema Chodron on groundlessness

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