Mark Bankin
A member of the International Council of Kinetography Laban (ICKL), Mark studied at the Folkwang School with Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch and as a Fulbright Scholar at the Conservatoire de Paris; he has danced with Butoh masters Yoshito Ohno, Tetsuro Fukuhara, and Gekidan Kaitaisha. From 2018–2022 he built an award-winning archive of extinct Tibetan Gorshay dances, and has since contributed notation to projects with the New York Baroque Dance Company and Core of Culture, specializing in extinct folk forms. His choreographic work has been presented at Fondation des États-Unis (Paris), Hošek Contemporary (Berlin), Power Station of Art (Shanghai), and Holy Trinity at Lincoln Center (NYC). He has created over seventeen original works across France, Germany, Japan, China, and the United States, and is a commissioned choreographer with notAmuse Theater, Dances We Dance, ACUD Theater Berlin, and The Why Collective.
“Choreographer Mark Bankin’s movement work is grotesque and beautiful—sometimes both at once.” — Malini Singh McDonald, Theatre Beyond Broadway, May 28 2025
“Mark Bankin moved with grace.” — Rick Perdian, Seen and Heard International, Jul 27 2025
Artist Statement
Mark Bankin is a NYC-based choreographer and dance diagram specialist. He directs a repertory ensemble that draws on archives and movement-notation partitions to craft rigorous, formal dance-theater dramas. His works, each employing a distinct piece-specific movement framework, investigate interiority, cognition, structure, psychosomatics and states. In addition to conventional proscenium settings, Mark has staged his works in abandoned churches, decommissioned warships, and soon-to-be-demolished warehouses, where architecture’s entropy mirrors the body’s.
