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Dance Series: Jeanine Durning + Trio

“The Play”
Choreography and direction by Jeanine Durning
For and with performers: Sarah Konner, Erin Kouwe, and Miguel Castillo

“The Play”, a new trio, grapples with desire, grief, urgency, and purpose in a volatile world. Set in a room where everyday objects are constantly organized, reorganized, and disordered, three performers frame and reframe recurring scenes that blur the lines between memory, present reality, and future possibility. Combining movement and speech within a framework of Durning’s performance practice nonstopping, the piece challenges the forces of uncontrollable change. It explores how to maintain agency in a world moving too quickly, how to persist in the midst of dismantling systems, and how to cultivate new forms of togetherness amidst uncertainty. Through looping scenarios, “The Play” amplifies the precision and precariousness of decision-making, navigating personal desire and the need for connection. The work plays with time, place, and communication, creating temporary meanings in unpredictable circumstances. It asks: how do we begin again, repeatedly, in the face of loss and chaos?

Location:	Esch Hurvis Room, Warch Campus Center
Price:	Free
Sponsor:	Con - Dance
Contact:	Claire Schmidt claire.schmidt@lawrence.edu 920-832-6612
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