Tony Bordonaro

is a choreographer, director, performer, and teaching artist based in NYC. As a performer Tony has performed in the hit Off-Broadway show “Sleep No More” from 2011-2016 and in the original casts of immersive shows “The Unbrunch”, “The Lost Supper”, and “Sleep No More” Shanghai, as well as in commercials, television, and film. His company work includes HT Chen & Dancers, Daniel Gwirtzman Dance Company, and Douglas DUNN & Dancers, and he was a founding member of all-male repertory company 10HL.

His choreographies for video include the short “Rat” directed by Todd Strauss-Schulson, the Oscars® winning student film “Opera of Cruelty”, music videos, and commercials for companies OPPO (documentary Ad “Bring Creativity to Reality”) and WOM. He was awarded a choreographic residency and fellowship with Mare Nostrum Elements’ Emerging Choreographers Series and NEWSTEPS’ Emerging Choreographers Series. Tony’s love for physical storytelling is the driving force behind his solo work and collaborations like “Passport”, a performance art piece with Guggenheim fellow Robert Whitman, and Welcome to Campfire’s “The Pigeon & The Mouse” which premiered in January 2020.

As a dance teaching artist he has taught master classes at many studios and universities and was a Part-Time Lecturer at Rutgers University and Adjunct Faculty at LIU-Brooklyn. Tony holds a BFA from Rutgers University, Mason Gross School of the Arts and is represented by MSA Agency. He is also a lifelong student and teacher of Yoga.

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Ingrid Kapteyn

is an international performer and collaborator with a BFA in Dance and The Martha Hill Prize from The Juilliard School. She was a member of the cast of Punchdrunk’s “The Burnt City”; she has also played eight roles in Punchdrunk's hit immersive show “Sleep No More” NYC and was in the original cast of “Sleep No More” Shanghai.

As a performer, Ingrid has also worked with Brian Brooks, Danielle Russo, and The Metropolitan Opera, and she was an actor in MacArthur Fellow Martha Clarke’s “God’s Fool” at La Mama Experimental Theatre Club and “Angel Reapers” at The Signature Theatre.

As a choreographer and director, Ingrid has co-created, produced, and performed eight evening-length productions in New York and in China, including “Humans Within Structure”, “Once we're lit”, and “This Is Nothing Without You” with her collaborative collective HEWMAN; “POP” with fellow Shanghai castmates; and “CAMPFIRE”, “The Pigeon & The Mouse”, and “Subject” with Tony. She cofounded HEWMAN with Jason Collins and James Lindsay Harwell in 2014 to reimagine the traditional model of a dance company run by one choreographer by engaging individual artists with distinct voices to collaborate as equals in creative process.

As a teacher, Ingrid has offered master classes, workshops, and seminars internationally, including for Juilliard Global Ventures/Nord Anglia Education (in Shanghai, Dubai, Switzerland, Qatar, and NYC), New York University’s School of Medicine, FRESH Dance Intensive, University of North Carolina School of the Arts, and Princeton and Bucknell Universities. In 2016, she served as Assistant to the Artistic Director of Springboard Danse Montréal.

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Tony & Ingrid

first met while performing in Sleep No More NYC in 2013. They later spent a year together in China as part of the original cast of Sleep No More Shanghai. They have since collaborated to conceive, create, direct, and perform five evening-length productions of three original danceplays in Shanghai, New York City, and London.

Tony and Ingrid’s first creation, “CAMPFIRE”, tested the limits of human empathy through a story about the last two people on Earth. They premiered it with a run of sold-out shows in an office space in downtown Shanghai that was still under construction, where the audience moved with them through an entire gutted floor of the building that was strewn with rubble and debris.

Tony and Ingrid next presented “CAMPFIRE” in The Tank's intimate 56-seat blackbox in midtown Manhattan, with a two-part immersive scent sculpture that diffused bitter metallic notes into the trace of campfire embers.

A year later, Tony and Ingrid premiered a kind of alternate-universe prequel to “CAMPFIRE” called “The Pigeon & The Mouse” in a raw, vacant retail space near Grand Central Station. It is a love story about leaving home. They went on to adapt the piece for fifteen live, safely-distanced audiences over the course of quarantine in NYC, before turning it into a film that is a Top 5 Finalist in the Broadway On Demand Short Film Festival. 

In 2021, their original danceplay “Subject at Memredux Laboratories” had a three-week off-Broadway run in a 9.2K sq. ft. space in the heart of Manhattan's theater district. Recommended by TimeOut NY as one of the best immersive theater experiences in NYC, the live production was part art installation, part dance performance, and one-hundred percent immersive storytelling.

You can hear Tony and Ingrid speak about Subject and their other work on the 5.6.7.Eight Podcast for People on the Move.