Kiera Bono is an interdisciplinary choreographer/artist and a Ph.D. Candidate 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 Wagner College and have worked as a Writing Fellow at the CUNY School of Professional Studies. Bono holds an M.A. in Performance Studies from New York University. Their performance practice has been supported by the Catwalk Art Residency, the Old Furnace Artist Residency, The Whole Shebang Open Space Residency, the Snug Harbor PASS Residency, The Croft Residency, Bearnstow, the NYC Bird Alliance Artist in Residence Program, and the Dance/NYC Disability. Dance. Artistry. Dance and Social Justice Fellowship Program. 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.
