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. Photo credit: Ella Dawn W-S
Kiera Bono is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Theatre and Performance program at The Graduate Center, CUNY and an interdisciplinary artist. Approaching biopolitical questions surrounding disability, queerness, food, and diaspora, their work explores performances of assimilation and resistance. Bono’s academic research and practice-based research inform each other deeply, stewing in the blurriness between subject and object, internal and external, consumer and consumed, etc. 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 have worked as a Writing Fellow at CUNY School of Professional Studies.
Their performance practice has been supported by the Dance/NYC Disability. Dance. Artistry. Dance and Social Justice Fellowship Program (2020, 2021, 2023), the Bearnstow Artist Retreat (2023), The Croft Residency (2022), the Snug Harbor PASS Residency (2020-2022), The Whole Shebang Open Space Residency (2019), and the Catwalk Art Residency (2017, 2018). They have had the pleasure of performing in the work of Zoey Hart, Ella Dawn W-S/Dancews, and Melissa West, as well as collaborating with Melisande Echanique, Laura Farrell, Alexander Enzo Hope, Simone Johnson, Yo-Yo Lin, Londs Reuter, and Julia Lucrecia Taveras, among others.