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 choreographer, artist, teacher, and person who does research. 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, Wagner College, and Marymount Manhattan College, and they have worked as a Writing Fellow at CUNY School of Professional Studies. Bono holds a Ph.D. in Theatre and Performance (The Graduate Center, CUNY) and an M.A. in Performance Studies (NYU).
Their performance practice has been supported by/presented at Movement Research at the Judson Church (2025), the NYC Bird Alliance Artist in Residence Program (2024), Bearnstow (2023), the Dance/NYC Disability. Dance. Artistry. Dance and Social Justice Fellowship Program (2020, 2021, 2023), The Croft Residency (2022), the Snug Harbor PASS Residency (2020-2022), The Whole Shebang Open Space Residency (2019), the Old Furnace Artist Residency (2018), and the Catwalk Art Residency (2017, 2018), and other spaces and organizations. 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, Julia Lucrecia Taveras, and Lu Yim, among others.