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Compound Rite: Utopia or Oblivion

  • CultureHub 47 Great Jones Street New York, NY, 10012 United States (map)


RESIDENCY

Compound Rite: Utopia or Oblivion

Friday, December 16, 2022
7pm ET
Free / Donate

CultureHub NYC
47 Great Jones Street
3rd Fl
New York, NY 10012

Rooted in nomadic philosophies and art, Compound Rite: Utopia or Oblivion works with dance, moving image, craft and robotic choreographic sculpture. CultureHub Resident Artist NiNi Dongnier reimagines 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 spring in a post-metaphysical world.

“An order is sensed but always tenuous.
A world in disorder, objects and bodies linked by the absurd logic of chaos and
creation.
A continuous spiral constitutes by infinite spheres rising slowly then falling
transiently.
I invite you to slow down the motion of perception, that is to feel.”

Within the early stage of this multi-modal, multimedia performance making. We will share outputs from this weeklong exploration, which include:

  • Improvisational techniques and score generated movement materials.

  • Material that extended from the textural feeling body and its constructions.

  • Research on formal language of moving image, digital objects, and topography around eight-thousand-miles frontier of Inner Mongolia.

  • Selected text from R. Buckminster Fuller and Albert Camus.

RSVPs for free or with a donation to join us in person for this event.


This event is supported by the CultureHub Residency Program.


Artist/choreographer: NiNi Dongnier

Featuring performers: Isa Spector and Jade Manns

Special thanks to: Mimi Yin, Lane Shi Otay:onii, Mauricio Pauly, Tiri Kananuruk, Nuntinee Tansrisakul, Yi Xin Tong, Rashaun Mitchell, Allen Fogelsanger, and Maxine Z. Flasher-düzgüneş.

 
Earlier Event: December 10
Ancient Futures | Open Studio
Later Event: January 19
Text-to-Image with Stable Diffusion