Bonnie Sue Stein has been Executive and Artistic Director of GOH Productions for over 25 years. From 1982-88, she was Program Associate of Performing Arts at Asia Society, and an independent director in New York. Currently she is collaborating with producers and artists from Japan, Uzbekistan, Thailand, Estonia, Czech Republic and Ireland. As the Managing Director for Yoshiko Chuma and The School of Hard Knocks, she oversees all national and international company and personal projects of Ms. Chuma. She is consultant to Ralph Lee, award winning mask and puppet designer and director.
As a writer, Stein contributes articles on performing arts to Dance Magazine, The Village Voice, The Drama Review, Danceinsider.com and program notes for various performing arts venues. She wrote an essay on Japanese Butoh pioneer, Kazuo Ohno for the 1999 book, Fifty Contemporary Choreographers (published in the UK), and contributed an essay on Butoh dance to the award-winning book, Moving History / Dancing Cultures: A Dance History Reader, (Wesleyan University Press). She lectures on the performing arts of Japan in universities, art centers and festivals in the U.S. and Europe.
In the late 70s and early 80s, Bonnie choreographed her own works, in New York City, Estonia and in Japan. She created a new work for the first contemporary dance company in Estonia (Nordic Star) in 1990, after that country became independent from the Soviet Union. The work,
THE JOURNEY, included a new 35-mm film created for the performance with Esto Film, and music by Estonia's cultural minister at the time, Lepo Sumera.
Bonnie was born in Detroit, Michigan. Her grandparents were from Belorussia, and came to live in the USA in the early 20th century. |