Christine Bonansea

Christine Bonansea is a multi disciplinary performer artist, choreographer and teacher. After performing in Europe and San Francisco for numbers of great artists among Mathilde Monnier, Tino Sehgal, Faustin Linyekula, Sarah Shelton Mann as well as in her own work; she's now based in New York City. She's been challenging the dynamics of live performance within the diversity of environment that she experienced internationally the last 15 years. She's presented a series of dance pieces and Installations since 2010. Her work is commissioned by festival organizations and residency programs: Atlantic Center for the Arts residency program, (2010), ODC theater program (2011-12), Safehouse Arts (2012-13), Artscape Toronto (2015), FRESH Festival (2011-2015), the Whenever Wherever Festival-Tokyo (2013),San Francisco International Festival (2015) and DOCK11- Berlin (2013-2015). The Company has been supported by US Grants: the Theater Bay area CASH GRANT (2012), the Zellerbach Family foundation (2012), American Dance Abroad (2014), Foundation for Contemporary Arts (2014), the Lighting Artists for Dance Grant of Dancer's Group (2014) and the French Consulate of San Francisco. Her last pieces has been seen in the United States in San Francisco (Counterpulse, Yerba Buena, ODC theater, the Joe Goode ANNEX) and New York city (Movement research- Judson Church, Danspace Project, Dixon Place).