Ciarra D'Onofrio

Ciarra D’Onofrio (they/them) is a queer dancer, aerialist, and educator with a passion for using dance as a means of storytelling, social analysis, and community building. They specialize in dance trapeze, contemporary dance, and vertical dance. They have performed in redwood forests, cathedrals, and on trampoline walls, and most recently have danced here in the Bay Area with Zaccho Dance Theater, Nina Sawant, Epiphany Dance Theater, Olallie Lackler, and Helen Wicks Works. Ciarra recently self-produced, directed, and choreographed Heart String: On Deah + Grief + Love, their first evening-length production, to fully sold out audiences. As a choreographer + director, they build work from the heart, and are particularly drawn to storytelling through the use of objects, spaces, and aerial apparatuses. Their work often explores grief, the co-creation of queer identity, and how gender lives in the body and in physical space. Previously, Ciarra’s work has been presented in the San Francisco Aerial Arts Festival, the Tenderloin Arts Festival, and the CounterPulse Festival.