DeAnna J. Pellecchia

DeAnna Pellecchia is a dancer, athlete, aerialist, actress, and choreographer committed to collaborating with artists of different mediums including musicians, filmmakers, and visual artists. She creates performance pieces that seamlessly blur lines of integration between disciplines, ultimately producing multi-sensory works of live art. Her mission as an artist is to expand the perception of ‘dance’ as an accessible form of art by engaging audiences of all kinds. In the process of achieving this goal she has not only danced, but soared, climbed, hurdled, hydroplaned, hovered and flown through countless unconventional landscapes across the United States; she has been featured in rodeos, operas, plays, fashion shows, magazines, movies and music videos; and she has taught and been taught by movers of all kinds. As co-choreographer of Kairos Dance Theater, she crafts original performance pieces with Ingrid Schatz. She also creates site-specific performance installations incorporating all-live music with musician Ed Broms under the name Savage Amusements. DeAnna is a principal dancer with internationally acclaimed New York-based Paula Josa-Jones/Performance Works (featured soloist and original cast member of RIDE, PJJ/PW's Equestrian Dance Theater Performance, in which DeAnna dances with live horses). She also dances with Boston-based Kinodance Company (named one of Dance Magazine's "Top 25 to Watch" in 2008).

2007:
December         Kairos Dance Theater
                      "That Girl and The Other One" (excerpts)
                      Tribute Concert Celebrating 
                      the Career of Kelli Wicke Davis
                      Performing Arts Center
                      Roger Williams University
                      Bristol, RI

                      Kairos Dance Theater
                      "That Girl and The Other One" (excerpts)
                      Medicine Wheel Productions 
                      World Aids Day at the Boston Center for the Arts

                      Bennett Dance Company
                            "Water Improv"
                      Medicine Wheel Productions 
                           World Aids Day at the Boston Center for the Arts

October          Bennett Dance Company
                      "New Balance Climb Performance"
                      Grand Re-Opening Gala of 
                      The Boston Children's Museum
                      Boston, MA

September     Kairos Dance Theater
                     "That Girl and The Other One"
                     The Dance Theater 
                     at Boston University
                     Boston, MA                   

                     Kairos Dance Theater
                      "Trio Improv" 
                     Natick Collection Grand-opening 
                     Natick, MA

August           Bennett Dance Company
                     "The Net"
                     Burning Man Festival
                     Black Rock City, Nevada

                     Bennett Dance Company
                     "The Net"
                     Burning Bagels Benefit
                     Gibbs Gymnasium
                     Arlington, MA

July               Bennett Dance Company
                     "Ladder Dances"
                     ARTBEAT Festival
                     Davis Square, Somerville, MA

May               Kinodance Company
                     "Denizen" (excerpts)
                          Medicine Wheel Productions Benefit Performance
                     The Cloud Foundation
                     Cloud Place, Boston, MA

                     Kinodance Company
                     "Denizen" (premiere)
                     Bank of America Celebrity Series
                     Tsai Perfromance Center
                     Boston, MA

April               Kinodance Company
                     "Denizen" (excerpts)
                     Boston Cyberarts Festival
                     The Cloud Foundation
                     Cloud Place, Boston, MA

                      Lostwax
                      "Melt" (excerpts)
                      Boston Cyberarts Festival
                      Green Street Studios
                      Cambridge, MA

March             Bennett Dance Company
                      "Inner House"
                      Julie Ince Thompson Theater
                      Dance Complex
                      Cambridge, MA

May            DeAnna Pellecchia 
                  "Doll" (premiere) 
                  Outside Art Collective's Vroom, Vroom, Vaudeville at
                  The Middle East

April           Paula Josa-Jones/Performance Works 
                 "Thousand Voices" (improvisation) 
                  VHA Inc. Science Complexity Conference
                  Los Angeles, CA 

March         Bennett Dance Company 
                  "Inner House" (premiere) 
                  CRASHARTS Mass Choreographers Concert at the
                  Emerson Majestic

January      Bennett Dance Company 
                  "Inner House" (excerpts) 
                  Falling Bodies at Thornes Theater, Northampton, MA


2000:     
December    Bennett Dance Company 
                  "Inner House" (work-in-progress) 
                  Medicine Wheel Productions -
                  World Aids Day at the 
                  Boston Center for the Arts

April           Bennett Dance Company 
                 "Bound" (premiere) 
                  Boston Center for the Arts

January        Bennett Dance Company 
                 "Bound" (excerpts) 
                  Six Senses at Thornes Theatre
                  Northampton, MA

                  Bennett Dance Company 
                   "Bound" (work-in-progress) 
                  Dance Umbrella's Boston Moves at 
                  the Emerson Majestic


1999:        
December    Bennett Dance Company 
                  "Bound" (work-in-progress) 
                  Medicine Wheel Productions -
                  World Aids Day at the Boston Center for the Arts
 
October      Bennett Dance Company
                  "Bridge" (1999) 
                  Boston Center for the Arts 
           
August          Bennett Dance Company 
                  "Bridge" (premiere) 
                  Boston Center for the Arts, City Sound Series

Kennedy Performing Arts Center (Washington, DC)
Los Angeles Convention Center (Los Angeles, CA)
Burning Man Festival, Root Society Dome (Black Rock City, NV)
Dance Theater Workshop (NYC)
Dixon Place Theater (NYC)
The Carol Autorino Center, St. Joseph College (West Hartford, CT)
Carriage House Theater (Providence, RI)
Performing Arts Center, Roger Williams University (Bristol, RI)
Stuart Theatre, Brown University (Providence, RI)
Strider Theater, Colby College (Waterville, ME)
Emerson Majestic Theater (Boston, MA)
Robets Studio Theater, Calderwood Pavillion (Boston, MA)
Cyclorama, Boston Center for the Arts (Boston, MA)
Tsai Performance Center, Boston University (Boston, MA)
The Dance Theater @ Boston University (Boston, MA)
Sargent Dance Theater, Boston University (Boston, MA)
Tower Auditorium, Massachusetts College of Art (Boston, MA)
Emmanual Church, Newbury Street (Boston, MA)
Cloud Place, Boylston Street (Boston, MA)
Children's Museum (Boston, MA)
No Man’s Land (South Boston, MA)
Zero Arrow Theater (Cambridge, MA)
Cambridge Multicultural Center (Cambridge, MA)
Julie Ince Thompson Theater, Dance Complex (Cambridge, MA)
Green Street Studios (Cambridge, MA)
Lowell Hall, Harvard University (Cambridge, MA) 
Marran Theater, Lesley University (Cambridge, MA)
The Middle East (Cambridge, MA)
Somerville Theater (Somerville, MA)
Forest Hills Cemetery (Jamaica Plain, MA)
Red Pony Farm (Martha's Vineyard, MA)
The Yard (Martha's Vineyard, MA)
Morse Auditorium, The Peabody Essex Museum (Salem, MA)
Salem State College (Salem, MA)
Natick Collection (Natick, MA)
Ipswich Moving Company Studio Theater (Ipswich, MA)
Ipswich Performing Arts Center (Ipswich, MA)
Eleanor Welch Casey Theatre, Regis College (Weston, MA)
Mugar Center for the Performing Arts, The Cambridge School of Weston (Weston, MA) 
A.P.E. Performance Space, Thornes Marketplace (Northampton, MA)