Choreographer and Artist
Chinese (New York)
NiNi Dongnier is of Mongol ethnicity, born in Inner Mongolia, and based in New York City. Her work spans choreographic performance, film, and painting. Through gestural movement, garment, sound, spatial choreographic notations, and tracking technologies, she delves deeply into themes about form, faith, constancy, migration, and the experience of life. Her works have been performed and exhibited at numerous arts institutions in the United States and China. She graduated from the Beijing Dance Academy and has taught there. She earned an MFA from New York University and participated in the Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture. She has served as a tenure-track assistant professor at Simon Fraser University’s School for the Contemporary Arts and is currently a curator at Columbia University’s Barnard Movement Lab.
