Tony Bordonaro and Ingrid Kapteyn
Intimate.
Evocative.
Immersive.
An invitation to everyone in the audience to abandon impatience and instead measure – and treasure – time in slow motion.
…in the artists’ own words:
Tony Bordonaro
© Phillip Spaeth
Tony Bordonaro: As dance artists we believe the movement of the body is highly expressive. That’s why we choose to tell stories physically. The audience is always the primary focus of the experience we are creating.
No Proscenium interview by Kathryn Yu
Ingrid Kapteyn
© Nir Arieli
Ingrid Kapteyn: We read the news and feel the world’s desperation for the healing power of empathy. The silence of movement, with everything else stripped away, can be one of the most simple and articulate ways to tell a story.
No Proscenium interview by Kathryn Yu
Where you can see them live:
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Tony regularly appears in New York City, right now including a run with The Unbrunch. Find out more about Tony here.
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See Ingrid perform in Sleep No More at Manhattan’s McKittrick Hotel.
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…in NPAFE’s words:
Kapteyn & Bordonaro in CAMPFIRE,
the original live immersive production they
premiered in Shanghai, China in 2017
Tony Bordonaro and Ingrid Kapteyn are among New York City’s most gifted creative teams in immersive theater, bringing their powerful imaginations not just to the stage but right to and into the audience.
They believe in storytelling as culture’s oldest and dearest way of inspiring empathy, with the power to incite people to listen carefully and make the characters’ moments of understanding and transformation their own.
CAMPFIRE
Bordonaro’s and Kapteyn’s works are passionate. Courageous. Blunt. Subtle. Fierce in creativity, identity, and meaning.
They open a window on the rawness of human feeling, desire, passion, eroticism, anger, kindness, blindness, and love.
They draw us in, rather than leaving us as onlookers, with the power to captivate any of us ready to break out from our own imaginative constraints and let ourselves go.
What’s Next?
On Site to On Screen: Bordonaro and Kapteyn are turning their live immersive production CAMPFIRE into a film! Find out more here.
On Deck: Bordonaro and Kapteyn are creating a new live production to premiere in New York City in December 2019.
On the Horizon: Bordonaro and Kapteyn will mount a large-scale immersive production with a long-term run in New York City.
…in NPAFE’s words:
Tony Bordonaro and Ingrid Kapteyn are among New York City’s most gifted creative teams in immersive theater, bringing their powerful imaginations not just to the stage but right to and into the audience.
Kapteyn & Bordonaro in CAMPFIRE,
the original live immersive production they
premiered in Shanghai, China in 2017
They believe in storytelling as culture’s oldest and dearest way of inspiring empathy, with the power to incite people to listen carefully and make the characters’ moments of understanding and transformation their own.
Bordonaro’s and Kapteyn’s works are passionate. Courageous. Blunt. Subtle. Fierce in creativity, identity, and meaning.
CAMPFIRE
They open a window on the rawness of human feeling, desire, passion, eroticism, anger, kindness, blindness, and love.
They draw us in, rather than leaving us as onlookers, with the power to captivate any of us ready to break out from our own imaginative constraints and let ourselves go.
What’s Next?
On Site to On Screen: Bordonaro and Kapteyn are turning their live immersive production CAMPFIRE into a film! Find out more here.
On Deck: Bordonaro and Kapteyn are creating a new live production to premiere in New York City in December 2019.
On the Horizon: Bordonaro and Kapteyn will mount a large-scale immersive production with a long-term run in New York City.
Video Sampler
Video Sampler
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Tony Bordonaro
Choreography and Performance Reel
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Ingrid Kapteyn
Choreography and Performance Reel
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CAMPFIRE
2017 Premiere in Shanghai, China
Choreography and Performance by
Tony Bordonaro and Ingrid Kapteyn
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Artist Bio Highlights
Tony Bordonaro
- Choreographer, director, and performer based in Brooklyn, New York
- Punchdrunk’s hit show Sleep No More in New York City and Shanghai
- Passport, a performance art piece with Guggenheim Fellow Robert Whitman
- CAMPFIRE, a collaborative dystopian original co-created with Ingrid Kapteyn in Shanghai, China in 2017
- Choreography and performance in Oscar-winning student film Opera of Cruelty in 2017
- Professor of contemporary dance and improvisation at Rutgers University Mason Gross School of the Arts and Long Island University (Brooklyn)
- BFA in Dance Performance and Choreography from Rutgers University Mason Gross School of the Arts
- Tony’s full cv and website
Ingrid Kapteyn
- Eight roles in Punchdrunk’s Sleep No More NYC
- Seven roles in the original cast of Punchdrunk’s Sleep No More Shanghai
- Co-director, co-choreographer, and performer in independent installations CAMPFIRE and POP in Shanghai
- Cofounder of HEWMAN, a collaborative collective of artists based in NYC who aim to widen the potential for empathy and equality between dance audiences and viewers
- Brian Brooks Moving Company
- The Metropolitan Opera
- Martha Clarke and Alfred Uhry’s Angel Reapers at The Signature Theatre
- International teaching for Juilliard Global Ventures/Nord Anglia Education, FRESH Dance Intensive, UNC: School of the Arts, and Princeton and Bucknell Universities
- BFA Juilliard 2013, The Martha Hill Prize
- Ingrid’s full cv