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Sun and Moon Rotate to This Infinite Present Moment,
The 99 Verbs and Wishes for You, My Dear,
and to Our Nomadic Life (Rite) -
2026a certain necessity, concrete and durational actions
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202599 Verbs and Wishes
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2024Silent Flight (Part II)
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2024it's factual, so vast
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2024you and me, we grant this portrait the marvelous
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2023Silent Flight
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2023Compound Rite
- 2022Field Record 5: Sun, Moon, You
- 2022Compound Rite: Utopia or Oblivion (II)
- 2021Field Record 4: Every Motion is a Ritual ᠲᠠᠯᠠᠪᠠᠢ ᠵᠢᠨ ᠲᠡᠮᠳᠡᠭᠯᠡᠯ 4
- 2021Drift Upwards, Fall Downwards
- 2021Far Journey, Homeward
- 2021Doppelgänger
- 2020In Another Green World
- 2020Can You See Me? Can You Say Something?
- 2019Field Record II
- 2019Field Record 3
- 2019Compound Rite: Utopia or Oblivion
- 2019bare mind create action create bare mind
- 2019Oracle---------Alt Text for the Future
- 2018Field Record I
- 2018In Another Green World, She Was a Visitor
- 2018bird, bird
- 2017Reaching Nowness
- 2016Cloud Image
- Early Works
2023-ongoing / 59:00 / choreographic performance / installation, faux fur, wood board, paint / choreographic object, ready-made sphere, 25 in (63.5 cm), 8.3 in (21 cm)
Now, at a new junction more than a hundred years later, I am rethinking The Rite of Spring (Stravinsky, 1913) —the primitive rituals of pagan Russia that celebrate the advent of spring, of a young girl chosen as a sacrificial victim who dances herself to death. Compound Rite is a sincere attempt to record and reaffirm the positions of our bodies in the current temporal, ecological, and technological spaces, and to imagine a phenomenon or situation that transcends The Rite of Spring’s themes of fear and dualism, seeking a new spring in a post-metaphysical world.
Working with the media of bodily movement and its material extension, nomadic folk dances gravity, intricate choreographic score, sculptural composition, and the spheres, Compound Rite unfolds a performative landscape—liturgical and formal that holds but not restrains.
Choreographer/Artist: NiNi Dongnier
Performed by: Abby Blanchard, Ashley Sankaran-Wee, Beatrice Keller, Charlotte Samuel, Emily Lee, Emma Miebach, Gaby Galindo, Hannah Latta, Isabella Onorato, Jeya Thiessen, Kaitlyn La Vigne, Katie Schauerte, Krystal Tsai, Lauren Butterfield, Lily Wallman, Olivia Johnson, Polina Olshevska, Reese Magnayon, Ruby Henderson, Sonja Kwantes, Vivien Dang
Music: Igor Stravinsky, The Rite of Spring, (Sir Simon Rattle conducts the London Symphony Orchestra, recorded live at the Barbican Centre on 09/24/2017.)
Vocal & Sound: Lane Shi Otay:onii
Sound Design: Mauricio Pauly, Jackson Adrian
Light Design: NiNi Dongnier, Irene Weng
Rehearsal Assistant: Caroline Liffmann
Fabrication Assistant: Uroš Šanjević, Niloufar Samadi
Stage Manager: Joy Zhengyi Wu
Graphic Design: Sixuan Tong, Shisi Huang
Production Manager: Emily Neumann
Technical Director: Ben Rogalsky, Miles Lavkulich
Communication: Brady Cranfield
Photo: Chris Randle
Video: Aaron Nathanson
Thanks to Simon Fraser University School for the Contemporary Arts, Elspeth Pratt, Rob Kitsos, Marla Eist, Justine A. Chambers, Erika Latta, Momo Akrami, and La MaMa | Culturehub.
11/23/-11/25/2023 Goldcorp Centre for the Arts, Vancouver
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