Photo by Ella Dawn W-S, Open Reduction Internal Fixation (ORIF) [Image Description: Kiera folds forward while holding a yellow TheraBand and standing near several physical therapy objects in a dance studio with white walls, a window with trees behind it, and a wooden floor.]
Kiera Bono is an interdisciplinary artist and a Ph.D. Candidate in Theatre and Performance at The Graduate Center, CUNY. Approaching biopolitical questions surrounding disability, queerness, food, and diaspora, their work explores performances of assimilation and resistance. Through multisensorial scores and choreographies of care, Bono engages with embodied and digital archives of labor, trauma, and relationality. They have taught at The City College of New York, and they are currently teaching at Wagner College and working as a Writing Fellow at CUNY School of Professional Studies.
Their performance practice has been supported by the Catwalk Art Residency (2017, 2018), the Old Furnace Artist Residency (2018), The Whole Shebang Open Space Residency (2019), the Snug Harbor PASS Residency (2020-2022), the Dance/NYC Disability. Dance. Artistry. Dance and Social Justice Fellowship Program (2020, 2021, 2023), The Croft Residency (2022), the Bearnstow Artist Retreat (2023), and the NYC Bird Alliance Artist in Residence Program (2024). They have had the pleasure of performing in the processes of Zoey Hart, Jerron Herman, Londs Reuter, Ella Dawn W-S (Dancews), and Melissa West, as well as collaborating with Melisande Echanique, Sugandha Gupta, Laura Harris Farrell, Alexander Enzo Hope, Simone Johnson, Yo-Yo Lin, Michelle Mantione, Krista Miranda, and Julia Lucrecia Taveras, among others.