Jeanine Durning 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. Her work has been described by The New Yorker as having both “the potential for philosophical revelation and theatrical disaster.” Jeanine’s ongoing project, nonstopping, has been the foundation for her research since 2009. She’s performed her signature solo inging (based on her nonstop speaking practice) throughout Europe, across the US, and in Canada on and off since 2010. Jeanine has had the privilege to collaborate with many choreographers, including Deborah Hay since 2005, working as performer, consultant, choreographic assistant, and coach. From 2020-2023, Jeanine was invited to work as Rehearsal Director for Stockholm based contemporary dance company Cullberg, primarily transmitting and touring the dance works of Deborah Hay as well as of the Swedish choreographer, Alma Söderberg. Jeanine has been invited to share some of her practices in many different contexts and countries through teaching, mentoring/advising, and creating choreographies. Her most recent choreographic collaborations were with Candoco Dance Company (London), creating Last Shelter (2021), with Norrdans (Härnösand), creating Everlasting – a new love (2023), and with an independent group of American artist/thinkers, creating The Invitation Situation (2023/24). In 2023, with the support of MANCC and The Mellon Foundation, Durning collaborated with writer/editor Jenn Joy and designer Sherri Wasserman on a book project centered around her practice, nonstopping. Jeanine is currently working on two artist initiated commissions, one in the States and one in Sweden.
