NiNi DONGNIER

NiNi DONGNIER is a choreographer and artist of Mongolian descent from Inner Mongolia, who engages choreographed performance, moving image, technological intervention, and painting.

Her recent works have been performed and exhibited at The Watermill Center, Shanghai International Dance Center Theater, Jonah Bokaer Arts Foundation, G Museum, La MaMa|CultureHub, Museum of Science, Bangkok Art & Culture Centre, New York Live Arts, Media Art Xploration, Ming Contemporary Art Museum, Aranya Art Center, Gaotai Gallery, VENT Space| Tallinn Freedom Square, International Conference on Movement and Computing, A4 Art Museum, OCAT Shenzhen, Movement Research, Mana Contemporary, Gibney, China National Centre for the Performing Arts and others.

Her recent commissions include Shanghai International Dance Center Incubation, Media Art Xploration, Beijing Dance Academy, Inner Mongolia Art Theatre, and Barnard/Columbia Dances at New York Live Arts. In 2017, her choreography was nominated for the Lotus Award - the most prestigious dance award in China. Her collaborations include her moving image Field Record 4: Every Motion is a Ritual with Lane Shi Otayonii - musician and the lead vocalist of experimental band Elizabeth Colour Wheel; her evening-length production Silent Flight with composer Mauricio Pauly as one of the four mainstage productions at the 2023 China Contemporary Dance Biennale; the awards-winning evening-length production Hulunbuir Snowfield based on in-depth ethnographic and artistic research at Hulunbuir of Inner Mongolia with her mother, as well as performances with director Robert Wilson. 

DONGNIER co-founded NUUM Collective along with Mimi Yin and Tiri Kananuruk in 2019. NUUM is a collective of choreographers, technologists, and performance artists from China, Thailand, and the United States committed to bringing movement, sound, text, visual arts, and coded rules of interaction together into a total work of art. Their projects have been supported by NEA, Google, The Center for Ballet and The Arts, and NYU ITP, among others.

DONGNIER taught as a tenure track assistant professor at the School for the Contemporary Arts of Simon Fraser University and as a tenured faculty at Beijing Dance Academy. She also taught at CUNY Hunter College and Barnard College of Columbia University. Currently, she is developing her upcoming project as an artist in residency at the Monira Foundation.