Jonah Bokaer Bio

Jonah Bokaer is an award-winning media artist and choreographer. A graduate of North Carolina School of the Arts, Bokaer is a current member of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company (2000-present), has worked with John Jasperse (2004-2005), David Gordon (2005-2006), and has also interpreted the choreography of George Balanchine as restaged by Melissa Hayden.

While studying Visual & Media Art at The New School University, Bokaer began exploring digital media to produce movement, and has developed a unique, multi-disciplinary body of work that addresses the human body in relation to contemporary technologies.

He has been presented widely throughout venues in the United States and abroad, including Cornell University, Dance Theatre Workshop, Danspace Project at St. Mark¹s Church, Dixon Place, La Mama ETC, P.S. 122, Symphony Space, The Laban Centre (London), the ISB (Bangkok), Naxos Bobine, Studio Théâtre de Vitry, and La Générale (Paris), Les Subsistances (Lyon), La Compagnie (Marseille), and OT301 (Amsterdam), among others.

Bokaer has been honored with a Human Rights Award (Public Volunteerism, 2000), and a fellowship from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts (Dance & Media, 2005-2006). He is also the inaugural recipient of the Gallery Installation Fellowship from Dance Theater Workshop. In 2007, he accepted a New York Dance & Performance/BESSIE Award on behalf of Chez Bushwick, a project guided by artists since 2002.