"Nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn't. And contrary wise, what is, it wouldn't be. And what it wouldn't be, it would. "

― Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass

NUUM is a collective of choreographers, programmers, sound artists and designers. We synthesize these diverse disciplines in search of novel ways to craft meaning out of form. 

At the core of our practice is an abiding obsession with interaction: the thing that happens “in between.” A moment, alchemical that convinces us something significant has come to pass between two conscious actors. And so we strive to create work that can be sensed and felt rather than explained and articulated. To this end, we exploit the literal-mindedness of computational thinking to play with the human desire to comprehend and connect. 

We examine each form through the lens of an adjacent one, prompting a recurring set of questions about how we perceive and don't perceive: What do we (not) see? How do we know if something is real or fabricated? The ways in which movement defines space and stillness defines movement. How abstract movement becomes gesture becomes implication. How language subverts our senses. How participation and choice can craft a narrative that that is at once more personal and more universal. The boundary between pattern and composition. When an algorithm become a way of thinking.

Our work has been supported by Culture Hub, The Movement Lab at Barnard College, MANA Contemporary, MaxMachina, The Center for Ballet and The Arts, Google, The National Endowment for the Arts among others.

We are NiNi Dongnier, Tiri Kananuruk, Nuntinee Tansrisakul, Mimi Yin and Yuguang (YG) Zhang

Press

She's Martha Graham, Who are you? by Brian Seibert New York Times April 7, 2025

Adoration Flat Journal Issue 01: Halt, Fall 2020 

Can you see me? [soft] Magazine, Fall 2020

Technology and the Evolving Craft of Dance by Tamara Johnson Southwest Contemporary, Dec 1, 2019

Field Work in Motion: NiNi Dongnier on Designing Interactive Spaces by Maxine Flasher-Duzgunes, Washington Square News, Nov 26, 2019

Mimi Yin: Dancing With Machines by Victoria Lubas, Download, Nov 12, 2019

Breaking the System: Sound and Technology in the Art of Tiri Kananuruk by Celine Katzman, Mana Contemporary, May 31, 2019

Contact
Email: nuumcollective@gmail.com
Instagram @NUUMCOLLECTIVE