RWU Dance Spotlight: A video interview with DeAnna Pellecchia '99
1999 Graduate Established Dancer in Boston, Massachusetts.
DeAnna Pellecchia has established herself as one of Boston’s most prominent dance-makers, creating and performing more than a hundred critically acclaimed dance works that have toured locally, nationally and internationally.
As Artistic Director of KAIROS Dance Theater, she uses rich, visual imagery to craft performance pieces for the stage, site-specific landscapes and non-traditional public spaces that take audiences on a visceral journey.
Ms. Pellecchia works collaboratively with visual artists, musicians, composers, and costume and set designers to create emotionally powerful performance experiences. Additionally, she has danced with horses, in trees, on stilts, under water and through air, and has been featured in rodeos, operas, plays, fashion shows, books, movies, music videos and publications including STUFF Magazine, Dance Magazine, Contact Quarterly, Backstage Magazine, The Boston Globe, and The Boston Herald, among others.
Ms. Pellecchia has collaborated with Grammy-nominated musicians Kenny Werner, Dave Eggar and Joshua Pierce; NYC music-icon, composer Johnny Reinhard; MIT’s acclaimed composer Elena Ruehr; award-winning choreographer Ann Carlson; legendary choreographer Elaine Summers of the Judson Dance Theater; and internationally acclaimed visual artist Shinique Smith.
She has performed at venues including The Kennedy Performing Arts Center in Washington D.C., The Los Angeles Convention Center, Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Dance Theater Workshop in NYC, and the Burning Man Festival in the Nevada desert; and throughout India at The National School of Drama in Delhi and Chennai, University of Calicut in Kerela, Alliance Francaise in Bangalore, and Abhinaya Theater in Hyderabad. Her individual work has been presented by the American Festival of Microtonal Music, Charles Playhouse / Broadway Across America, Institute of Contemporary Art Boston, and The Huntington Theatere, among others.
She is a principal dancer with Paula Josa-Jones / Performance Works (since 2000); and has also danced with Anikaya Dance Theater, Kinodance Company, Bennett Dance Company, Nicola Hawkins Dance Company, and Anna Myer & Dancers.
Ms. Pellecchia is currently on the dance faculty at Boston University (since 2002), Simmons College and Boston Ballet. She received a B.A. in Dance / Performance from Roger Williams University in 1999, and has taught as a guest artist at Boston Conservatory, Concord Academy, Cambridge Rindge and Latin School, and Massachusetts College of Art, among others.
The RWU dance department invites you to watch our video interview with Ms. Pellecchia to learn more about her experience at RWU and where her journey in dance and the performing arts has taken her.
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