Bonachela was born in La Garriga, a small town 45 km north of Barcelona in the Catalonia region of Spain, the eldest of four brothers.

At the age of seventeen he joined the Spanish troupe Lanònima Imperial where he performed and toured across Europe in productions of "Castor I Polux" and "Kairos".

[2] For the Sydney Dance Company, Bonachela has created multiple new works, including we unfold (2009),[3] 6 Breaths (2010),[4][5] Are We That We (2010),[5] Irony Of Fate (2010),[6][7] Soledad (2010),[6][7][8] LANDforms (2011),[9] The Land of Yes and the Land of No (2011–12),[10][11][12] 2 One Another (2012), Project Rameau (2012),[13] Project Rameau (joint with Richard Tognetti)(2012–13),[13] 13 Rooms (2013),[14] Emergence (2013),[15] Les Illuminations (2013),[16] 2 in D Minor (2014),[17] Inside There Falls (Installation by Mira Calix)(2014),[18] Interplay (2014),[17] Louder Than Words (2014),[19][20] Scattered Rhymes (2014), Frame of Mind (2015),[21] CounterMove (2016),[22][23] Lux Tenebris (2016), Nude Live (2017),[24] Ocho (2017), Orb (2017),[25] ab [intra] (2018) and Impermanence (2021).

These include composers Ezio Bosso, Bryce Dessner, Nick Wales;[27] artist Mira Calix,[28] musicians Kylie Minogue,[29] Tina Turner, Sarah Blasko, Katie Noonan; writer Samuel Webster;[30] ensembles Australian String Quartet, Australian Chamber Orchestra; and designers Tony Assness,[31] Benjamin Cisterne, David Fleischer; and venues such as the Art Gallery of NSW,[32] Roslyn Packer Theatre, Sydney Opera House and Carriageworks.

For his work Soledad, Bonachela won both the Premio Guglielmo Ebreo and the independent critic's prize at the Biennale Danza e Italia in Pesaro in 2006.