- 2026
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
- 2024Silent Flight (Part II)
- 2024it's factual, so vast
- 2024you and me, we grant this portrait the marvelous
- 2023Silent Flight
- 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
2025-ongoing / 21:20 / choreographic performance / set, lumber, paint, tan sheep fur, fishing line
In 99 Verbs and Wishes, every motion is a ritual, with time, space, body, garments, objects, and immaterialized matter. Devoting to bodily records of autobiographical love–death gestures, and interluding with faint motions of vast natural phenomena and symbols lying deep in memory, this work forms an index of sculptural gestures that migrate between the animalistic and the minimal.
Created, choreographed, and performed by: NiNi Dongnier
Sound by: Yi Xin Tong
Photo: Rachel Keane
Video: Makenna Finch
Supported by Shanghai International Dance Center Theater and Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture.
Thanks to Trajal Harrell, Liz Magic Laser, Claudia La Rocco, Ruth Estévez, and Cori Kresge.
07/31/2025 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Maine
09/29/2025 Movement Research at the Judson Church, Judson Memorial Church, New York City
11/21-11/23/2025 Process Notes – Every Motion is a Ritual, initial research, New York City (solo presentation, screening)