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Updated 3/2/2023

KAIROS Dance Theater

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    MA

Institution/Business Type: Performing Group

KAIROS Dance Theater creates innovative performances and interactive workshops that promote art as a threshold for communication and social change. Our work is rooted in collaboration and built around the experience of creating movement, sharing stories, building connections, and using the body as an instrument of power and expression. For the past 15 years, we have enabled dancers and non-dancers to discover their voices and the importance of their own personal stories through carefully crafted & customized training programs and performances throughout New England, New York, and internationally.

KAIROS's multi-disciplinary, contemporary dance performances present non-linear story mosaics combining dance, light, myth, music, visual art, memory, and text. In pursuit of creating innovative, multi-sensory experiences for audiences, performances are crafted collaboratively with not only the 10, diverse, company dancers, but also with artists from all disciplines - musicians, composers, visual artists, digital media designers, photographers, film artists, lighting designers and fashion designers. 

Dancers are asked to strip away layers to expose their truest selves, and to not just dance, but reveal and embody story-telling as a catalyst to dismantle the imagined barriers between us. The visual and physical story-telling brings to life history, narratives, myths and memories that speak to the truths of life that connect us to the infinite and the universal. 

KAIROS’s immersive performances have been featured as a "Critics’ Pick" over 20 times by the Boston Globe; and presented throughout New England, New York, Korea, France and Russia at galleries, museums, theaters, and site-specific venues including Booking Dance Festival (NYC) / Jazz at Lincoln Center, The Gardner Museum, Cotuit Center for the Arts, The Greenway in partnership with Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Busan Biennale (South Korea), Compass Theater (Russia), and ZOU Arts Festival (France), among others. KAIROS has been awarded residencies at URBANO Project, Roger Williams University, Dance Complex, and Boston Center for the Arts. Work with youth has received recognition from City of Boston and President Obama’s Committee on the Arts & Humanities, for exceptional work in presenting rich learning opportunities to young people in the field of arts. KAIROS’ curriculum for creating collaborative performance projects with teenagers was chosen for publication in Harvard’s Educational Review.

Find Me

DeAnna Pellecchia (she/her/hers)
Job Title: Executive & Artistic Director / Choreographer
Phone: 617-775-5435
Address:
217 Main Street
#3
Boston, MA 02129

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About

Overview

Institution/Business Type:

Performing Group

Legal Status:

Nonprofit - Independent

Year Founded:

2012

Overview

Institution/Business Type:

Performing Group

Legal Status:

Nonprofit - Independent

Year Founded:

2012

Disciplines

Primary Discipline:

Multi-Disciplinary

Additional Disciplines:

  • Visual/Crafts - Musical Instruments

Activities and Services

Activities and Services:

  • Arts for Social Change / Creative Activism
  • Creation of a Work of Art (Including Commissions)
  • Public Art Projects (In Free, Public Spaces)
  • Curriculum Development
  • Residency - In School
  • Workshops / Demonstrations / Master Class
  • Professional Development / Training
  • Performance / Concert / Reading
  • Residency - Community
Seasons Active: spring, summer, fall, winter
Events Per Year: 9

Communities

Populations Engaged:

  • Adults
  • General Public
  • Nonprofits
  • School Groups
  • Teens
  • Youth-At-Risk
  • LGBTQ Populations

Languages Available:

  • Spanish
  • English
  • American Sign Language

Geographic Reach:

  • Multi-State Region
  • International

Accessibility of Services

Accessibility of Services:

  • Access accommodations for people who use a wheelchair and have limited mobility

Media Gallery

I Have Worked With

Affiliations and Accomplishments

Awards

Awards:

  • 2023 ORGANIZATIONAL GRANT RECIPIENT | BOSTON CULTURAL COUNCIL/CITY OF BOSTON
  • 2022 ORGANIZATIONAL GRANT RECIPIENT | BOSTON CULTURAL COUNCIL/CITY OF BOSTON
  • 2021 ORGANIZATIONAL GRANT RECIPIENT | BOSTON CULTURAL COUNCIL/CITY OF BOSTON
  • 2020 ORGANIZATIONAL GRANT RECIPIENT | BOSTON CULTURAL COUNCIL/CITY OF BOSTON
  • 2022 REOPEN CREATIVE BOSTON GRANT RECIPIENT | BOSTON CULTURAL COUNCIL/CITY OF BOSTON
  • 2022 NEW ENGLAND DANCE FUND RECIPIENT | NEW ENGLAND FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS
  • 2021 NEW ENGLAND DANCE FUND RECIPIENT | NEW ENGLAND FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS
  • 2017 NEW ENGLAND DANCE FUND RECIPIENT | NEW ENGLAND FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS
  • 2021-22 LIVE ARTS BOSTON GRANT RECIPIENT | THE BOSTON FOUNDATION
  • 2020-21 LIVE ARTS BOSTON GRANT RECIPIENT | THE BOSTON FOUNDATION
  • 2019 OPPORTUNITY FUND RECIPIENT | BOSTON CULTURAL COUNCIL/CITY OF BOSTON

Awards

Awards:

  • 2023 ORGANIZATIONAL GRANT RECIPIENT | BOSTON CULTURAL COUNCIL/CITY OF BOSTON
  • 2022 ORGANIZATIONAL GRANT RECIPIENT | BOSTON CULTURAL COUNCIL/CITY OF BOSTON
  • 2021 ORGANIZATIONAL GRANT RECIPIENT | BOSTON CULTURAL COUNCIL/CITY OF BOSTON
  • 2020 ORGANIZATIONAL GRANT RECIPIENT | BOSTON CULTURAL COUNCIL/CITY OF BOSTON
  • 2022 REOPEN CREATIVE BOSTON GRANT RECIPIENT | BOSTON CULTURAL COUNCIL/CITY OF BOSTON
  • 2022 NEW ENGLAND DANCE FUND RECIPIENT | NEW ENGLAND FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS
  • 2021 NEW ENGLAND DANCE FUND RECIPIENT | NEW ENGLAND FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS
  • 2017 NEW ENGLAND DANCE FUND RECIPIENT | NEW ENGLAND FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS
  • 2021-22 LIVE ARTS BOSTON GRANT RECIPIENT | THE BOSTON FOUNDATION
  • 2020-21 LIVE ARTS BOSTON GRANT RECIPIENT | THE BOSTON FOUNDATION
  • 2019 OPPORTUNITY FUND RECIPIENT | BOSTON CULTURAL COUNCIL/CITY OF BOSTON

Special Designations

Special Designations:

  • NEFA Grant Recipient

Artist Info

Teaching Artist

Teaching Settings:

  • Afterschool Program
  • Arts and Cultural Center / Venue
  • Community Site / Center
  • Corporate Business
  • Private Studio
  • School / University

Ages Served:

  • Middle School-age
  • High School-age
  • College-age
  • Adults

Subject Areas:

  • Arts Integration - Communications
  • Arts Integration - Physical Education
  • Dance
  • Design
  • Theater

Teaching Artist

Teaching Settings:

  • Afterschool Program
  • Arts and Cultural Center / Venue
  • Community Site / Center
  • Corporate Business
  • Private Studio
  • School / University

Ages Served:

  • Middle School-age
  • High School-age
  • College-age
  • Adults

Subject Areas:

  • Arts Integration - Communications
  • Arts Integration - Physical Education
  • Dance
  • Design
  • Theater

Touring Artist

NEST Eligible Artist

Technical Requirements:

  • 30' x 40' stage, black marley
  • White back wall or cyclorama and black traveler
  • Mid-stage traveler position to hang scrim
  • Projector located FOH that covers the back wall/cyc
  • Adequate dance light plot with 8 additional circuits for company lighting

Fee Range:

$7,500 - $15,000

State of Residence:

Massachusetts

Minimum Number of Performers:

6

Maximum Number of Performers:

30