Jeanine durning the bridge project university

To Being is a choreography of persistence in the heart of jeopardy and precarity: the body continues in ongoing change, relations transform, meanings proliferate and fade. A companion work to Durning’s acclaimed solo performance practice, inging, To Being is based on the decidedly chosen practice of nonstopping — always moving absent destination— always becoming, never arriving. A psychosocial experiment, To Being opens to a landscape where radically divergent desires converge and empathy unfolds. To Being is dance as both ontological inquiry and homage, a force against the absolute, the nameable. To Being is a composition of endurance, a sonata of devotion. To Being is an unending search for an imperative relationship to movement in which dichotomies between self and other, material and immaterial, thought and action, incessantly dissolve. But more than anything else, To Being asks: What’s at stake? Where’s the end? How can we give more when all we feel is that we’ve

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