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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.
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Performing Group
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Nonprofit - Independent
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2012
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Performing Group
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Nonprofit - Independent
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2012
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$7,500 - $15,000State of Residence:
MassachusettsMinimum Number of Performers:
6Maximum Number of Performers:
30