Christine Bonansea to Bring Solo Dance ONLYHUMAN to JACK This January

Christine Bonansea, a French-born, NYC-based dancer and choreographer known for her expressive, virtuosic, improvisation-driven works infused with live music and strong visuals, is presenting her new solo OnlyHuman as an APAP showcase.

The work, created in collaboration with the composer and performer Nicole Carroll, lighting designer Elizabeth Mak and the visual designers Robert Flynt and Yoann Trellu will be shown on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, January 5-7 at 8pm at JACK (505 1/2 Waverly Ave, Brooklyn). Tickets are $10 online (available here) or $15 (cash only) at the door. Presenters can reserve free passes by emailing info@christinebonansea.com.

OnlyHuman (work in progress) is the first installment in a series of collaborative performances, aimed at creating an interdisciplinary creative environment in which Bonansea's solo dances evolve through interaction with new musical, visual and movement material created by an international and multicultural ensemble. The work draws inspiration from Friedrich Nietzsche's aphoristic volume Human, All Too Human, a work described by its author as "a handbook for the free spirits." Bonansea is particularly interested in the stark contradiction between the human capacity for freedom and beauty and its darkest, most destructive and illogical behaviors.

Watch a trailer for the piece below!

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Christine Bonansea is a New York-based dancer and choreographer with over 15 years ofinternational experience in conceiving, directing/choreographing and performing movement-based works. She creates performances, installations, and films. She is the Artistic Director of Christine Bonansea Company, founded in 2010. Defined by expressive, virtuosic, improvisation-driven movement, her work inhabits an experimental, interdisciplinary, and collaborative environment in which other media - theater, video, visual art and design, spoken word, and music - play an important and integral part. Having studied Modern Literature at Paris' La Sorbonne, she cites writers and philosophers as major influences.

Bonansea studied dance in her native France and later trained and performed with such luminaries as Regine Chopinot, Catherine Diverres, and Mathilde Monnier. She had the pleasure of working with such artists as Ralph Lemon, Anna Halprin, Catherine Galasso, Sara Shelton Mann, Faustin Linyekula, Tino Sehgal and Wally Cardona. In New York City, Bonansea's work has been presented by Danspace Project, Dixon Place, and Movement Research at the Judson Church. Her dances have also been commissioned by and performed at numerous venues and festivals in the U.S. and worldwide, including Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, ODC Theater, San Francisco International Arts Festival, and The Joe Goode ANNEX (San Francisco); Headwater Theater Linda Austin Space (Portland); Atlantic Centerfor the Arts (South Beach, Florida); DanceMatters (Toronto, Canada); Whenever Wherever Festival (Tokyo, Japan); and at DOCK11 (Berlin, Germany).
Visit www.christinebonansea.com.

Yoann Trellu is a photographer and digital media artist based in Berlin. She creates imagery as well as project specific multimedia software. She is particularly interested in geometry, the relationship between image and sound, and computer creativity understood as an artistic partnership between a human and a machine. Over the last decade Trellu has worked on over fifty stage productions with various theater and dance companies throughout Europe, USA and Asia, including Post-Theater (Berlin, New York, Tokyo); Konzert Theater Bern (Switzerland); Jess Curtis-Gravity (Berlin, San-Francisco), Shang Chi Sun (Berlin, Taiwan), and many others.

Robert Flynt's work in photography and visual arts has been widely exhibited in the United States and abroad since 1980, both in major museums (including 1992 show "New Photography 8" at the Museum of Modern Art in New York), galleries, and alternative spaces.His collaborative works in performing arts include commissions from Brooklyn Academy Of Music (with choreographer Bebe Miller), the L.A. International Arts Festival (with Ishmael Houston-Jonesand Dennis Cooper, and many others. Flynt has received fellowships from the Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation, Art Matters, and the Peter S. Reed Foundation, as well as many prestigious American and international residencies. Go to www.robertflynt.com.

Nicole Carroll is a composer, performer, Sound Designer, and builder based in Providence, RI. Her work spans installation, improvisation, and fixed media performance. She is active as a Sound Designer and composer in theater, performs electronic music under the alias "n0izmkr", and builds custom synthesizers and performance sensor systems. Through her work, she seeks to reconcile the natural world with technology. Themes found in her work derive from reflections on nature, supernatural phenomenon, literature, and the human psyche. She is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Computer Music and Multimedia at the Multimedia & Electronic Music Experiments (MEME) program at Brown University. Visit nicolecarrollmusic.com.

Elizabeth Mak is a Singapore-born interdisciplinary theatre artist based in New Haven, Connecticut. She's interested in making work that blurs the line between movement, text, and design - work that actively impacts the communities we live in. Her design credits include Cymbeline (Yale Repertory Theater); Nanyang: The Musical (Singapore International Festival of Arts); And Then They Fell (New York Film Academy); Passion Play (Atlantic Acting School); Beckett Shorts, The Flu Season (American Repertory Theater Institute); Counterpoint, 35 (Harvard-Radcliffe Modern Dance Company); House of Yes, Accidental Death of an Anarchist (Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatic Club); and many others. She holds a BA degree in Performance and Theatre Arts from Harvard University and MFA in Design from Yale School of Drama. Go to Elizabethmak.com.

Photo by Robert Flynt.