https://kierabono.com/menu daily 0.75 2025-11-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/590679d69de4bb35a6cb3231/723ab339-7029-4294-8d6c-de5de36788fc/angelina+and+me+pillow+dance.jpeg Menu - Make it stand out Pillow Dance Iteration (133 Design Collective, June 2016) Image description: Angelina Marriott and Kiera stand in a room with brick walls and a large window and intestinal pillow sculpture by Maddy Geftic to their left. They both step forward with their right legs and touch their own right forearms with their left hands. Photo credit: Dana Trunk https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/590679d69de4bb35a6cb3231/aa229076-8c91-4de9-aefb-165e9feaf292/Newburgh.jpg Menu - Make it stand out SAAACKL [Admission Application/Checklist Summary] (Small Plates Dance Festival, March 2018) Image description: Simone Johnson sits above Kiera on a wooden floor and reaches out to touch Kiera’s rib while Kiera connects their feet with Melisande Echanique’s back and Melisande’s shoulder blade connects with Simone’s shoulder blade. They find relation and support through their bones. Photo credit: Marianne Killackey https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/590679d69de4bb35a6cb3231/51f5d436-3186-440d-b092-d629be428e98/_Q8A2475.jpg Menu - Make it stand out Bird bones/Sparrow songs (Governors Island, 2024) Image description: Michelle Mantione, Krista Miranda, Ella Dawn W-S, Kiera Bono, and Lu Yim are tangled in a web of sensory textiles made by Sugandha Gupta out of Kiera’s accumulated beige cotton wrist stockinettes, which are stained and dense with residual pain relief salve after years of use. Michelle reaches their left arm ahead across Krista, who wears a scarf-like textile around her neck; Krista twists diagonally to the right with her left arm extended toward Kiera, Ella, and Lu; Ella stands on a grey stone fountain edge behind Kiera and Lu and looks downward; and Kiera and Lu hold and stretch a textile that is connected to Michelle’s chain of unused stockinettes. Photo credit: Maddie Barkocy https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/590679d69de4bb35a6cb3231/1c42f69e-1f46-43fe-95a9-54c00c089d7d/PASS+Oct+157.jpg Menu - Make it stand out Open Reduction Internal Fixation (ORIF) (Snug Harbor Cultural Center, 2020-2022) Image description: Ella Dawn W-S makes gluten-free pasta from scratch with a vintage pasta maker on a white table with grey metal legs, Alexander Enzo Hope does a saline infusion in a video projection on a white wall, and Kiera audio describes Alexander’s infusion process. Alexander pushes saline through a syringe connected by tubing into his left, stockinette-clad arm with plastic medical packaging gathered on a reflective table in front of him. Shadows of Ella, Kiera, and two bicycles haunt the back corner of the space. Photo credit: Lance J. Reha https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/590679d69de4bb35a6cb3231/31bab968-1505-4c27-abfb-2ac7c9d170bf/catwalk+drone+dance+with+matthew.png Menu - Make it stand out drone_dance01_trim.mp4 (Catwalk Institute, June 2018) Image description: Kiera and Matthew D. Morrison stand in a green field together, surrounded by trees, grass, plants, and patches of sunlight and leaf shadows. Kiera plays accordion and Matthew plays violin in collaboration/tension with the hum of a drone hovering near them. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/590679d69de4bb35a6cb3231/e3668813-cad3-4660-956c-84cf1c1a7478/trash+capsules.jpg Menu - Make it stand out Trash Capsules: Archives of Illness, Food, and Diaspora (New Women Space, August 2017) Image description: an assemblage of medical ephemera arranged and photographed by Alexander Enzo Hope; IV tubing weaves into plastic and paper gauze packaging and soft stockinettes, all bathing in a golden/beige/orange glow. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/590679d69de4bb35a6cb3231/1635210695395-HF84B0YWGDPJ4ROCCVQR/image-asset.jpeg Menu 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 https://kierabono.com/home daily 1.0 2025-08-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/590679d69de4bb35a6cb3231/1635210695395-HF84B0YWGDPJ4ROCCVQR/image-asset.jpeg Home 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.] https://kierabono.com/bird-bones daily 0.75 2025-06-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/590679d69de4bb35a6cb3231/2ad4b47c-ea68-4697-9a00-719a991ab80d/_Q8A2485.jpg Bird bones - Make it stand out Image description: Michelle holds the end of a chain of cotton wrist stockinettes that they tied together and brings the thumb hole toward Kiera’s pointer finger, which is extended outward toward Michelle, and Krista holds the far end of the stockinette chain in her right hand while reaching and looking upward toward the sun with her left hand and elbow bent. Kiera wears one of Sugandha’s sensory textiles wrapped around their neck and left shoulder and holds a scarf-like textile in their right hand, which loops downward beside a grey fountain edge. Photo credit: Maddie Barkocy https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/590679d69de4bb35a6cb3231/216bc0c8-b1ab-45ef-8ae2-30fb94a5c6f1/Kiera+and+Ella+3.JPG Bird bones - Make it stand out Image description: Kiera's joints sit in themselves in a bird-like perch and Ella rolls her back over green and purple hand weights on a wooden dance deck. Photo: Benjamin Cheney https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/590679d69de4bb35a6cb3231/8fdbe6eb-92e0-4bd4-b9c0-9f05be00bc8a/_Q8A2411.jpg Bird bones - Make it stand out Image description: Krista extends her left leg forward, tilts forward, and flexes her foot on a raised grey fountain edge and grips her crutches on either side of the fountain edge while Lu extends their right arm out to the side with Sugandha’s cotton sensory textiles draped over their shoulders and right arm in the sunlight. They are both surrounded by green grass, bushes, and purple flowers, and there are golden and green autumn trees lining the background. Photo credit: Maddie Barkocy https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/590679d69de4bb35a6cb3231/8dd41437-54cd-461e-9d5e-a3c55a60b0d3/Loon+Dive.jpg Bird bones - Make it stand out Image description: Kiera and Ella squat and perch next to each other on a wooden dock in the moments before they dive synchronously into a calm lake during the live performance of Bird bones/40th Annual Loon Count on Saturday, July 15, 2023. They both face away from the camera toward a floating dock in the distance, thick grey clouds above them, and lush hills across slightly rippled water. Kiera and Ella's reflections wiggle on the water below the stationary dock. Photo credit: Ciarra Fragale https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/590679d69de4bb35a6cb3231/2edfc275-c4fb-4528-8b0d-4bcdd53c1fb8/_Q8A2467.jpg Bird bones - Make it stand out Image description: Ella (standing) and Lu (sitting) hold one of Sugandha’s sensory textiles in a stretched, tense position by the outer strands of thread, and sunlight floods through the interwoven strips of cotton. Golden and green trees and green and brown bushes glisten in the background. Photo credit: Maddie Barkocy https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/590679d69de4bb35a6cb3231/3fac3fb1-bd69-4427-8543-8e6703bbe78b/Kiera+and+Ella+1.JPG Bird bones - Make it stand out Image description: Kiera plays accordion and sings while Ella extends one leg and two arms in opposition in front of a large, wooden, nest-like sculpture. They are surrounded by scratchy star thistle plants and dirt. Photo credit: Benjamin Cheney https://kierabono.com/open-reduction-internal-fixation-orif daily 0.75 2025-01-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/590679d69de4bb35a6cb3231/5a3b7755-1375-4d05-b01b-e6230e5abb24/PASS+Oct+176.jpg Open Reduction Internal Fixation (ORIF) - Make it stand out Image description: Yo-Yo puts weight through her hands and knees on all fours next to a tall green houseplant that curves like a spine in a video projection on the white wall of a large dance studio with glossy wooden floors while Ella and Kiera ride stationary bikes on the wooden floor of the studio. The shadows of Ella, Kiera, and the bikes dance behind them on the wall. Photo credit: Lance J. Reha https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/590679d69de4bb35a6cb3231/a35e88fb-8602-4464-9325-6a2af57b3b6e/PASS+Oct+50.jpg Open Reduction Internal Fixation (ORIF) - Make it stand out Image description: Ella stands in the foreground and pulls both ends of a red TheraBand wrapped around a white column with black padding fastened around it while Kiera plays accordion and sings in a chair in the background. The red TheraBand cuts diagonally across Kiera’s body. Photo credit: Lance J. Reha https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/590679d69de4bb35a6cb3231/aa215e03-c259-40f3-af28-29a8303374c4/Laura+and+Kiera+4.jpg Open Reduction Internal Fixation (ORIF) - Make it stand out Image description: Kiera and Laura both tilt over their left legs with their right hands lightly touching the wooden floor of a dance studio and their left legs raised behind themselves in front of a projected video of Kiera’s physical therapist skydiving. Kiera grabs Laura’s ankle above their head, and Laura raises their left arm toward the ceiling/sky. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/590679d69de4bb35a6cb3231/3a3c1084-2a61-48f8-8c91-31387585b7a6/Laura+and+Kiera+1.jpg Open Reduction Internal Fixation (ORIF) - Make it stand out Image description: a screenshot of a video of open reduction internal fixation, or a series of barrel rolls for falco lombardi (a collaborative performance with Laura Harris Farrell at The Whole Shebang in Philadelphia, PA): Kiera and Laura stand on their right legs and extend their left legs behind themselves with arms extended diagonally overhead and share weight with one another in a balance in front of a projected video of Kiera’s physical therapist skydiving. https://kierabono.com/banner-cycle daily 0.75 2024-12-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/590679d69de4bb35a6cb3231/8e1ac186-5252-4d4c-b019-00ff013d4bf9/Newburgh+Laura.jpg Banner Cycle - Make it stand out SAAACKL [Admission Application/Checklist Summary] (Small Plates Dance Festival, March 2018) Image description: Laura supports Kiera’s weight through their hands and knees on a wooden floor as Kiera is draped prone over Laura’s back. Photo credit: Marianne Killackey https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/590679d69de4bb35a6cb3231/2e0dcdc1-2840-4607-84e7-f9a604135fa8/Be+Yoga.jpg Banner Cycle - Make it stand out SOAIDNS [Person Search Detail] (Sweet Inferno, February 2018) Image description: a Werther’s Original butterscotch candy altar. Simone and Melisande support Kiera’s weight on their forearms and knees after the audience covers them all in Werther’s Original butterscotch candies, which begin to slide off them as Kiera slides off Simone and Melisande’s backs. Photo credit: Melissa West https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/590679d69de4bb35a6cb3231/1e5fda47-671d-465a-869a-1033c27389f2/Triskelion+Photo.jpg Banner Cycle - Make it stand out SFAREGQ [Registration Query Form] (Triskelion Arts, December 2018) Image description: a Southern Italian scarf and an Irish scarf with Book of Kells illustrations on it drape the floor and hold a plate and bag of chocolate chip cookies and yellow rubber dish gloves. Ella tilts to her right, standing on her right leg with her left leg extended to the left, looking toward her laptop on the black marley floor. Melisande sits on the floor with bent knees and palms on the floor behind her, and Kiera stands on one leg and plays accordion behind Melisande. Photo credit: Elyse Mertz https://kierabono.com/pillow-dances daily 0.75 2024-05-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/590679d69de4bb35a6cb3231/1d8479e9-08dd-4908-832e-154c16aed0d9/Insta+screenshots.jpg Pillow Dances - Make it stand out Image description: a screenshot of an Instagram grid with videos of long-distance chronic illness movement scores shared between Laura Harris Farrell and Kiera Bono. Kiera appears in various hotel rooms across various states, and Laura appears in an indoor dance studio and outdoors among trees and grass. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/590679d69de4bb35a6cb3231/fcff254a-0e71-466e-b604-cd6c20b93097/Gibney.jpg Pillow Dances - Make it stand out Image description: Angelina, Laura, and Kiera sit and lie down on a wooden dance studio floor, engaged in a shared writing practice while the audience sits along windows with some early evening sunlight coming through them. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/590679d69de4bb35a6cb3231/b3090b03-e0d1-42c7-8001-d69b0d83e8c6/buns.jpg Pillow Dances - Make it stand out Image description: Kiera stands in a room watching a video of Kiera, Laura, and Angelina moving through chronic illness scores together on a desktop computer screen and projected on a larger projection screen. The shadow of Kiera’s head falls on the projected wooden studio floor under Laura, who is seated. https://kierabono.com/assimilationist-agita daily 0.75 2025-03-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/590679d69de4bb35a6cb3231/3aa775c8-8dd0-44b9-ae7a-c0f49a8fdc8f/catwalk+roof+dance.png Assimilationist Agita - Make it stand out Image description: a screenshot of a video of Apple Crisp Collaboration (a performance at the Catwalk Institute in May 2017). While an apple crisp is in the oven out of frame, Kiera is on a roof deck surrounded by trees wearing their mom’s red plaid shirt. They raise their arms above their head while turning on the ball of their left foot with their right leg extended diagonally to the side in the air. Their hair is long, flying in the wind, and covering their face. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/590679d69de4bb35a6cb3231/926c2944-b37e-4e23-a144-1b510926f27f/Screenshot+2024-05-06+at+3.19.11+PM.png Assimilationist Agita - Make it stand out Archive of an archive of a microbiome (Catwalk Institute, May 2017). Image description: Kiera eats a gluten-free matzo and almond butter sandwich during an intense gastrointestinal illness flare-up and engages in a pain-based durational movement score through the (in/non)digestion process. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/590679d69de4bb35a6cb3231/79f491a1-f906-4f0f-8ca8-ef927ace3e57/Screenshot+2024-05-06+at+3.09.37+PM.png Assimilationist Agita - Make it stand out drone_dance01_trim.mp4 (Catwalk Institute, June 2018), choreographed and performed in collaboration with Matthew D. Morrison, video by Eric Fleischauer, sound recording by May Beattie. Image description: a screenshot of an aerial drone view of Matthew and Kiera in patches of sunlight and tree shadows on bright green grass. Matthew plays violin and Kiera crouches with bent knees and hands on their thighs. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/590679d69de4bb35a6cb3231/4ef4368e-bbff-4144-bfd7-0c6b9ccaa7df/Screenshot+2024-05-06+at+3.03.56+PM.png Assimilationist Agita - Make it stand out Companion planting scores at Snug Harbor Cultural Center and Botanical Garden. Image description: Simone stands and reachese her right arm forward toward Kiera, who is lying face-down on the wooden studio floor and Melisande, who is folded forward with her hands on the floor and her right leg extended outward and backward. https://kierabono.com/trash-capsules daily 0.75 2024-05-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/590679d69de4bb35a6cb3231/a3a095b7-af0a-472f-a634-86a791f0e446/alex+hope+wasted+installation.jpeg Trash Capsules - Make it stand out Alexander Enzo Hope’s Wasted installation (August-November 2017, Silent Barn). Image description: IV bags, IV tubing, and compression stockings and stockinettes are suspended over piles of medical trash, including pill bottles, sharps disposal containers, plastic medication packaging, and other materials.