Bonita Velez
Bonita Velez is a born and raised New Yorker. She is a graduate of LaGuardia High School for the Performing Arts and holds a Master of Fine Arts in dance.
As a dancer, Bonita spent most of her career with Joan Miller's Chamber Arts Ballet Company in the role of Principal and Assistant Artistic Director. She also worked and performed with Sheila Kaminsky and Dancers, Ballet de Puerto Rico, Rael Lamb, Eleo Pomare, Rod Rodgers and Chuck Davis.
For many years Bonita was an adjunct lecturer in the dance department of Lehman College of The City University of New York. She is a retired certified high school dance teacher for the New York Board of Education.
