Show coming up June 1-3

We are performing an Intergenerational piece June 1-3 at Green St. Studios, the piece called “Stone and Whispering Pages”  includes dancers age 5 to 75.  call 617-864-3191 to reserve a ticket.

Here is a short video preview:

Fork in the Road! (Taken last November)

Every week while driving back to NYC from Rhode Island I always saw this sign and I think this is the perfect image for my life at that time. I have decided to stay in Boston for the next year or so, going back and forth has been exhausting and I just got a grant from the Mass Cultural Council so I can make some work here!

I took this from the dashboard of the car.  On one of the trips back I headed to Boston, but most times I go back to NYC.  We just finished the piece and it looks great, here is the best video below:

The drive 4 hours each way every Sunday for six weeks, was grueling, I’d leave at 10am and return around midnight, with a 2 hour rehearsal, but I love working with the Roger Williams students.  My last drive back to New Jersey to return the car at midnight I had an accident only 4 blocks from the rental car agency!  So  close, but I was just so tired I think.  I am so glad to be staying put for a while.

Ted Talk Gramercy video finally here!

Here is a great video taken on March 10th, we performed Fractured Realm to music by Khlad, a pal of Morgan and Andrew, two friends who let us perform in their loft in Winter 2009.

They produced a really wonderful video at the TedTalk Gramercy.   I think this kind of event would be very interesting for Boston dance.  Possibly “Demystifying Dance” with different folks doing lectures on the history and their work.  I’d want to find a few people to participate, any takers, contact me at kddcompany(at)yahoo.com, here is the video:

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Showing New Work @ Third LIfe Studios, Saturday

Come see our latest piece we have been working on since February as well as some other great artists!

Third Life Studio Choreographer Series

Featuring work by KAIROS Dance Theater, DeAnna Pellecchia, Ingrid Schatz, Kelley Donovan & Dancers, Sam Wilson & Cambridge Dance Company

Saturday, May 5th at 8:00pm

Including dancers: Madina Agenor, Katie Egan, Lauren Elson, Virginia Fuller, Susan Gilbert, Jessica Goepfert, Cristina Hoff, Kristin Piltzecker, Ingrid Schatz, DeAnna Pellecchia, Cathy Rowe, Hannah Lopez Isabel Ortiz, Jackie Bertini, Kelley Donovan, Jessika Silva, Karen Klein, Yenkuei Chuang

Third Life Studio, 33 Union Sq., Somerville, Ma
www.thirdlifestudio.com for directions (across the st. from Citizens Bank)

$15 General Admission, advance tickets online only! 
http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/243536

$20 at the door

$12 for Student/Seniors

Call (617) 388-3247or kddcompany@yahoo.com for info.   
http://kddcompany.wordpress.com

KAIROS Dance Theater choreographers DeAnna Pellecchia and Ingrid Schatz explores the intense dynamics that are cultivated in relationships between women from the on-set of adolescence. “That Girl and The Other One” depicts the interactive landscape between women and their struggle to exist in a culturally ‘look-obsessed’, ‘competitive’, ‘jealous’ environment.
 “Stone and Whispering Pages”, an inter-generational dance work created by Kelley Donovan & Dancers explores, through a sharp and soft sensuous vocabulary, development of a finite amount of movement material. 
Cambridge Dance Company’s Push, Not Pull explores the idea that the more support and motivation that exists behind an idea or movement, the more powerful and profound it becomes.

Third Life Choreographer Series on Saturday!

We still have tickets available for show, if you purchase online in advance you receive 25% off your ticket price!

go to http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/238468

Third Life Studio Choreographer Series
A new performance series for Boston choreographers!

Saturday, April 14th at 8:00pm

One night only!!

Third Life Studio, 33 Union Sq., Somerville

Featuring work by, Zoe Dance, Anna Reyes, IMPACT Dance Company, Sharon Montella, Jennifer Lin & Chien-Hwe Carol Hong /1,000 Virtues

$15 General Admission, advance purchase online only (25% discount)

$20 General Admission, purchased at the door
$12 for Student/Seniors
http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/238468

Call (617) 388-3247or kddcompany@yahoo.com for info.

Impact Dance Company dancers Brett Bell and Kristina Hernandez will perform “Let me Leave,” a duet about a couple coming to terms with the fact that their relationship is failing and that they need to let go and move on.  Chien-Hwe Carol Hong /1,000 Virtues will performed a solo work in progress and a duet.  Sharon Montella will present a new urban contemporary group work to premiere at “The Hatch” in NYC April 21st.

Zoe Dance will present “Echo,” a dance/video projection piece.  “Echo” utilizes looping of time to create a world in which the dancer is commenting upon what she has experienced in the past to create a surreal world in which her multiple “selves” play out a scenario of confusion and distortion.

Jennifer Lin of JenLin Dance creates work centering on the Asian Diaspora and examines social constructions of culture and identity.  Anna Reyes will present two short improvisational works in collaboration with Jordan Maley, partly spontaneous and partly exploring pre-composed musical and movement ideas.

Some video highlights of last months show!

Kate Nies’ peice “No, Thank you!” she will present a new work in progress on June 16, 2012

Next Third Life Show on Saturday!

Join us for the next Third Life Choreographer Series performance, featuring work by Alissa Cardone & Lorraine Chapman, Kate Nies Brigham, Rebecca Rice, Courtney Stellmach & Angela Conte.   I am very excited to see the work!

You can purchase tickets  here

http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/229295

 

Join us on Sunday afternoon 1-3pm for Modern Dance Class and Performance Workshop!

Tedx Gramercy video

Here is the video from our performances at Tedx Gramercy, I want to organize a Boston Tedx event soon!

Our first piece was Khaled’s piece “Motion for the dancers” I filmed this one, (not my area of expertise) but it was fun to sit and watch them perform! His website is www.khaledis.me, and his music was really beautiful!  I hope we get to work together again soon!

The second piece was much slower and is called ” Timeless.”  We excerpted the very beginning of “Fractured Realm” and the first 4 sections or so, I got to do a short solo in this one!

and the gathering in the East Village afterwards……

New Class Series

It has been a crazy week!  We are performing Sat. at Tedd Talks Gramercy  in NYC and I start a new class series in a couple of weeks, here is the info on the class in Boston!

Age of Unraveling from the ICA

I finally got this video on YouTube after over a year!

This was Age of Unraveling at the Boston ICA, commissioned by World Music for Oct. 1 &2   2010

I am still trying to figure out how to convert a huge DV file to something I can upload onto YouTube.  One has to be a techie to be a choreographer these days!