N O   E X I T

A choreographic project by
CBC – Christine Bonansea Company

N O   E X I T

A choreographic project by CBC – Christine Bonansea Company 

D e s c r i p t i o n

No Exit is a dance piece for 3 dancers by choreographer Christine Bonansea that premiered at ODC Theater in San Francisco on July 20th and 21st, 2012.
No Exit has been inspired by the Huis clos from Jean Paul Sartre. I explored a metaphorical transformative body. The creative process led me to refine my research on the body as containers/beings.


Artistic Director:
Christine Bonansea

Dancer/Performer:
Marina Fukushima, Rosemary Hannon, Sebastien Grubb

Sound Composition and Performance:
Shane Mirbeck

Visual Design:
Olivia Ting

Photography by: 
Lydia Danillier

Duration:
40min

T R A I L E R

C o n c e p t

No Exit is a dance piece for 3 dancers by choreographer Christine Bonansea that premiered at ODC Theater in San Francisco on July 20th and 21st, 2012.
No Exit has been inspired from my previous piece, Soloil where I explored a metaphorical transformative body. The creative process led me to refine my research on the body as containers/beings.

The work explores the struggle we face in the physical and temporal limitations that mark the human condition. I offer a multimedia study of a codependent triangular relationship— reminiscent of Jean-Paul Sartre’s play of the same name —where three individuals test the limits of their own bodies and of time as they torment and abuse each other.

Visuals and hair sculptures define a surrealistic world, instable, source of alienation, where to unload their embodied burdens on each other, and thereby escape the containers of their own bodies in time and space. These three individuals are bound to suffer more as they find themselves surrounded by glaring, unforgiving reflections of their own cruelty.

The dynamic of the relationship keeps evolving and the discontinuity of the structure challenges identities, notions of cause, effect, progress, or destiny. They are no longer


  • Performing Dates
    • 2013 June 06-08, NorthWest/Linda Austin Space, Portland USA
    • 2013 January 04, Fresh Festival, Kunst-Stoff arts, San Francisco USA
    • 2012 July 20-21, PREMIERE, Werk it out FESTIVAL, ODC Theater, San Francisco USA
    • 2012 July 14-16, Fringe Festival, Santa Cruz USA
    • 2012 June 05/12, open Studio, ODC, San Francisco
    • 2012 April 27, (excerpt, 15 min), Kunst-Stoff arts, San Francisco USA
    • 2012 February 24-25, SAFEHouse/The Garage residency program Raw, San Francisco USA
    • 2011 December 07-08, (10min version), The Garage residency program, San Francisco USA
    • 2011 August 15, (15 version), House Special program ODC theater, San Francisco.
Executive Producer:
Christine Bonansea

Production:
Christine Bonansea company
With the support of ODC Theater, Zellerbach family Fundation, Theater Bay Area CASH Grant and the the Rainin Foundation as a part of the WERK Festival.

Residencies:
SAFEHouse/The Garage residency program, ODC theater House Special residency program, the Kunst- Stoff art residency program.
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