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/
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
Hope Mohr, Shedding a Split Self
Pema Chodron on groundlessness