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.
Michelle Mantione is a first generation U.S. born and raised New Yorker. They earned a B.S. in Physically Integrated Dance from the CUNY Baccalaureate Program. Their artistry explores how the aesthetics of disability access can become integral to an artwork, instead of an afterthought. For full bio visit: www.dancedescribed.net
Krista K. Miranda, Ph.D., is a queer crip interdisciplinary artist/scholar invested in the nuances of embodiment, imagining better futures for queer and crip life, and recuperating the figure of the nonreproducing woman. Miranda’s artistic practices are situated at the intersections of dance, experimental screendance, miniature installation art, poetry, and collaborative work steeped in radical care. Her in-progress monograph, Playing with Your Parts: Dismantling Bodily “Wholeness” through Queer and Crip Performance is grounded in performance studies, critical disability studies, and gender and sexuality studies. Her scholarly work can be found in Frontiers: A Journal of Women’s Studies, The Oxford Handbook on Dance and Theater, Women & Performance: a journal of feminist theory, and Pornographies: Critical Positions, with a forthcoming publication in Women’s Innovations in Theater, Dance, and Performance.
