NiNi Dongnier is a choreographer, artist, and performer, born in Inner Mongolia who works in New York and Vancouver. Dongnier works through dance, performance, moving image, soft sculpture, and artistic uses of technology. Her works have been presented by The Watermill Center, Movement Research at Judson Church, La MaMa|CultureHub, New York Live Arts, Media Art Xploration, Mana Contemporary, Shanghai Ming Contemporary Art Museum, and China National Theatre for the Performing Arts among others. Dongnier is also an assistant professor at School for the Contemporary Arts, Simon Fraser University, and co-founder of NUUM Collective. She holds an MFA from New York University.
“Rooted in the northern trans-border nomadic philosophies and art, my work is a continuous exploration of the metaphysics of body, motion, and its relation to the compound spatiotemporal, ecological, and technological contexts that shape the moments. The process conveys my sincere perception of embodied memory, migration, landscape, and the structure and cultural entanglement behind it.
Compound Rite: Utopia or Oblivion works with dance, video, craft & robotic choreographic sculpture, to reimagine a contemporary ritual that establishes a new relationship with The Rite of Spring (Stravinsky, 1913) that transcends the Rite’s themes of dualism and fear, seeking a new spring in a post-metaphysical world.”