“doing being being doing” is a workshop of creative practice based on Durning’s method and dance-choreographic practice called “nonstopping”. The workshop uses a variety of ways to set the creative act in motion and to organize thought, particularly through the circular, continuous cycles of writing, movement, and speaking. Through “nonstopping” awareness and perception of the eclectic, idiosyncratic, and often paradoxical nature of our thoughts and actions and how they are shaped is sharpened. It is a practice that potentially brings us closer to knowing and becoming familiar with the internal structures of our thinking manifested directly in our actions, behaviors and communications, as well as in our individual performative, compositional and choreographic choices. “Nonstopping” produces a state that moves beyond our conscious and learned behaviors and choices, allowing us to look more deeply into our unseen thoughts and actions. Through “nonstopping” we question our understanding of composition and structure, our ingrained beliefs about what is allowed and what is not, and our relationship to readiness, boredom, presence and pattern making. The workshops are intended for artists of various disciplines

In its general premise, the “nonstopping” project is about paying close attention to and negotiating our changing ecologies through actions, relationships and communication. The term “nonstop” (or “continuous”) is definitely intended as distinct from the adjective “continuous” or from “stream of consciousness.” While “continuous” suggests “going with the flow,” “nonstop” indicates the critical nature of what it takes to move forward despite doubts, feelings of failure, or limitations. Being in the continuous present moment, it is engaged in the act of becoming. It is a practice of pourousness that recognizes any material as valuable and meaningful, rather than selecting material that seems most appropriate. It also attempts to horizontalize the distinction between ‘strict’ and ‘loose’ or between ‘choreographed’ and ‘improvised’. [choreographed and improvised] as performance terms. “Nonstopping” conceives of dance as “being on a journey” in which one never reaches a destination but always moves forward.