creates performances, installations, and films. She is the Artistic Director of Christine Bonansea Saulut is an international performing artist dramaturg based in Berlin, with 20 years of international experience in directing/choreographing and performing movement-based works. She founded CBC in 2010 and has created performances, installations, and research platforms for the local and international performing art scene.
Having studied Modern Literature at Paris’ La Sorbonne, she cites writers and philosophers as major influences. Bonansea received the french national graduation in contemporary dance and studied dance with such luminaries as Regine Chopinot, Catherine Diverres, Mathilde Monnier, Ralph Lemon, Anna Halprin, Nancy Stark Smith. She’s also an accomplished dance teacher in both professional performative and therapeutic setting. She collaborated and performed with internationally artists such as, Nita Little, Kathleen Hermesdorf, Katie Duck, Sara Shelton Mann, Faustin Linyekula, Tino Sehgal, Yoshiko Chuma, Palissimo. In New York City,
The artwork covers a broad artistic field, featuring an integrated and participatory process involving artists and experimenters alike, using diverse mediums such as new digital media, VR/AR.
Defined by expressive, virtuosic, improvisation and choreography movement, the pieces inhabit an experimental environment charged by metaphysical inquiry.
Through the international collaborations, continued movement practice, Christine developed a unique trajectory that challenges the dynamics of live performance within a diversity of contexts.
Over the last 14 years, her projects have been selected in arts residency, curated and co-produced by theaters such as the Internationale Tanzmesse (Dusseldorf), Danspace Project, movement research at the Judson Church, Dixon Place (NYC), the BIDAM (Korea), YBCA, ODC Theater, San Francisco International Arts Festival; Atlantic Center for the Arts (Florida); Earthdance (MA), Artscape (Toronto); Whenever Wherever Festival (Tokyo); The Centre Nationale De la Danse (Paris), Dansometre (Vevey), Spotlight USA Bulgaria, Dance Italia (Lucca) International exchange (Busan Korea), cie AURA commission (Kaunas and Vilnius), Skopje Dance Festival and DOCK11(Berlin) , Teatro del Canal, Oishida (Japan), Tanzhaus nrw (Germany) at “temps d’images”.
Foto: Barbara Barbara Dietl
Selected internationally in residencies and venues in USA, Japan, Korea, Canada and Europe, she is supported by the Zellerbach Family Foundation, Foundation for Contemporary Arts, Theater Bay Area, the NYC LMCC, DOCK art /Berlin, the JOINT ADVENTURES // NPN and the TakeHeart resumption funded by NEUSTART KULTUR, the program DIS-TANZEN of the Dachverband Tanz Deutschland, Perspektiv Kultur with DOCK Digital Lab, the Oishida Artist In Residency in Japan and more recently the MODINA EU program with the TanzHaus Dusseldorf in Germany in 2023-2024.