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Tony Bordonaro
is a choreographer, director, performer, and teaching artist based in New York City. Known for his work in immersive theatre and physical storytelling, Tony performed in the hit Off-Broadway production of Sleep No More from 2011–2016 and was part of the original casts of The Unbrunch, The Lost Supper, and Sleep No More Shanghai. Most recently, he was a contributing choreographer and original cast member of Emursive’s Life And Trust at a historic bank in downtown Manhattan. His screen credits include commercials, television (One Life to Live, American Horror Story: Season 12, and Eric), and films (Mo and Manhattan Romance).
Tony’s choreographic work spans video, music videos, and commercials, including the short film RAT (directed by Todd Strauss-Schulson), the Oscar®-winning student film Opera of Cruelty, and branded campaigns for OPPO (Bring Creativity to Reality) and WOM. He has received choreographic residencies and fellowships through Mare Nostrum Elements’ Emerging Choreographers Series, NEWSTEPS’ Emerging Choreographers Series, and the New Directions Choreography Lab at The Ailey School.
Tony’s company work includes performances with HT Chen & Dancers, Daniel Gwirtzman Dance Company, and Douglas Dunn & Dancers, and he was a founding member of the all-male repertory company 10HL.
A dedicated teaching artist, Tony has led master classes at numerous studios and universities, served as a Part-Time Lecturer at Rutgers University, and was Adjunct Faculty at LIU-Brooklyn. He holds a BFA from Rutgers University’s Mason Gross School of the Arts and is represented by MSA Agency. A lifelong student and teacher of yoga, Tony continues to bring his passion for movement and connection to all areas of his work.
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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 the Resident Director of Punchdrunk's hit immersive show “Sleep No More” NYC in 2024, a member of the cast of Punchdrunk’s “The Burnt City” in London, and in the original cast of “Sleep No More” Shanghai.
As a performer, Ingrid has also worked with The Metropolitan Opera, Brian Brooks Moving Company, Danielle Russo, and Wally Cardona, and she was an actor in MacArthur Fellow Martha Clarke’s “God’s Fool” at La Mama Experimental Theatre Club and “Angel Reapers” at Signature Theatre. She has appeared in live immersive events for the fashion house Valentino, Anheuser-Busch, AMC, and Disney.
As a choreographer and director, Ingrid has co-created, produced, and performed evening-length productions in New York, London, and 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.
As a teacher, Ingrid has offered master classes, workshops, and seminars internationally, including for Springboard, 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, Playwrights Horizons, The Alvin Ailey School, Gibney Dance, Peridance, and Princeton, Bucknell, Rutgers, and Cornell Universities. In 2016, she served as Assistant to the Artistic Director of Springboard Danse Montréal.
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Campfire history
Welcome to Campfire was founded in 2017 by Tony Bordonaro and Ingrid Kapteyn, emerging from their shared experience in immersive performance and a desire to create original worlds and stories that lived inside their imaginations.
The platform began with CAMPFIRE, an immersive danceplay exploring the limits of human empathy through the story of the last two people on Earth. Originally created and presented in a gutted office space in Shanghai, the work later traveled to New York, where it was reimagined for an intimate audience at The Tank with a two-part immersive scent sculpture that diffused bitter metallic notes into the trace of campfire embers throughout the performance.
Campfire continued to develop its language through The Pigeon & The Mouse, a love story about leaving home, and Subject, an immersive danceplay set inside a fictional laboratory for the first-ever custom memory drug. 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. The works have taken many forms across live performance, film, and site-responsive experiences, adapting to spaces and audiences.
Since its founding, Welcome to Campfire has created work across Shanghai, New York City, Chicago, and London, developing a body of multidisciplinary work that moves between dance, theater, film, and immersive storytelling.
The platform continues to evolve as a home for original stories, experimental forms, and immersive worlds that use the body as a way of asking questions about human intimacy.