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Updated 11/25/2024

kamrDANCE - Alexis Robbins

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    CT

Institution/Business Type: Performing Group

Since 2015, kamrDANCE has been intricately fusing tap and contemporary dance to tell very serious and very silly stories about identity, music, family legacy, and more. kamrDANCE’s choreographic works utilize the power of tap dance as music, along with original poetry, text, music, contemporary dance, and physical theater. Under the direction of Artistic Director and Choreographer Alexis Robbins, kamrDANCE has performed at venues, events, festivals, and online performances throughout the northeast, created five dance films, and self-produced several, sold out evening length and split bill shows.
We believe that tap dance is music and that music exists to be danced to. We believe in collaboration and prioritize multidisciplinary performance works. We believe that dance can happen in any space, nothing is too big, too small, or too weird. 

Notable performances or awards include: 
-“Tap for Today" at The Dance Hall in Kittery, ME with The Bang Group (2024)
-“Creative Circle” work in process split bills in collaboration with SYREN Modern Dance in New Haven, CT and NYC (2022, 2024, 2025). April 2024 received support from The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven
- “Artists Respond” Grant(s) Recipient from the Connecticut Office of the Arts for “Rooted in Dance & Music” community dance project and professional performance with live music in Hamden, New Haven, and Norwalk, CT (2022, 2024)
- Tom Bell & Ginger Parker Musician Residency, Artist in Residence at the Kirkland Art Center in Clinton, NY (2023) 
- Choreographic commissions from: Hofstra University (2023), Artspace New Haven (2019, 2021), Kehler Liddell Gallery (2021, 2022), Montana Dance Center (2022), Arc Dance Collective (2022), MiXt Co (2024)

We are currently creating a rock opera called The Mercy Velvet Project:
The 1999 album, Live in Vain by Mercy Velvet, exists on zero streaming platforms, and few people have heard it. But its legacy is as relevant as ever. The Mercy Velvet Project is a rock opera, a re-creation of the album. The work explores what makes us human, our collective need for community to survive—with musicians and dancers moving as one. The show tells the story of the album through tap dance as percussion, contemporary dance, original text, and instrumentation via bass, guitar, and vocals—highlighting our vulnerabilities, learning together how to find the antidote that is mercy, and in turn lead meaningful lives.

Find Me

Alexis Robbins (she/her/hers)
Job Title: Artistic Director and Choreographer
Phone: 4017420589
Address:
230 Mill Rock Road
Hamden, CT 06517

Social Media:

Additional Content:

  • Vimeo

    Vimeo page with work samples, live performances, and films

About

Overview

Institution/Business Type:

Performing Group

Legal Status:

Nonprofit - Unincorporated

Year Founded:

2015

Overview

Institution/Business Type:

Performing Group

Legal Status:

Nonprofit - Unincorporated

Year Founded:

2015

Disciplines

Primary Discipline:

Dance - General

Additional Disciplines:

  • Dance - General
  • Music - General
  • Literary Arts - Poetry
  • Literary Arts - Spoken Word
  • Dance - Modern / Contemporary
  • Dance - Tap / Percussive
  • Theater - Solo / One-Person Show
  • Theater - Storytelling
  • Music - Jazz
  • Music - Pop / Rock
  • Multi-Disciplinary

Activities and Services

Activities and Services:

  • Community Arts
  • Creation of a Work of Art (Including Commissions)
  • Performance / Concert / Reading
  • Workshops / Demonstrations / Master Class
  • Film Showings
  • Residency - Community
  • Virtual Events
  • Residency - In School
Seasons Active: spring, summer, fall, winter
Events Per Year: 10

Communities

Populations Engaged:

  • Adults
  • Artists
  • Businesses
  • Elders
  • Families
  • General Public
  • LGBTQ Populations
  • Nonprofits
  • People with Disabilities
  • Rural Populations
  • School Groups
  • Teens

Languages Available:

  • English

Geographic Reach:

  • Town / City
  • State
  • Multi-State Region
  • National

Media Gallery

I Have Worked With

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Affiliations and Accomplishments

Awards

Awards:

  • Artists Respond Grant in 2022 from the Connecticut Office of the Arts
  • Artists Respond Grant in 2024 from the Connecticut Office of the Arts
  • New England Dance Fund Awardee in 2024

Awards

Awards:

  • Artists Respond Grant in 2022 from the Connecticut Office of the Arts
  • Artists Respond Grant in 2024 from the Connecticut Office of the Arts
  • New England Dance Fund Awardee in 2024

Education

Education:

  • BA in Dance, BS in Exercise Science from Hofstra University

Special Designations

Special Designations:

  • NEFA Grant Recipient

Designated Arts Community:

  • Connecticut Service Region Member - Arts Council of Greater New Haven Service Region

Artist Info

Teaching Artist

Teaching Settings:

  • Community Site / Center
  • Private Studio
  • School / University
  • Virtual / Remote

Ages Served:

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

Subject Areas:

  • Dance
  • Music

Certifications and Training:

  • BA in Dance from Hofstra University, BS in Exercise Science from Hofstra University.

Fee range:

$250/hr minimum plus travel expenses for guest teaching, $55-65/hr for regular, weekly, local teaching, $100/hr for private lessons

Teaching Artist

Teaching Settings:

  • Community Site / Center
  • Private Studio
  • School / University
  • Virtual / Remote

Ages Served:

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

Subject Areas:

  • Dance
  • Music

Certifications and Training:

  • BA in Dance from Hofstra University, BS in Exercise Science from Hofstra University.

Fee range:

$250/hr minimum plus travel expenses for guest teaching, $55-65/hr for regular, weekly, local teaching, $100/hr for private lessons

Touring Artist

NEST Eligible Artist

Technical Requirements:

  • Appropriate sprung, wood tap floor that covers at least 16x20 feet (adjustable).
  • Floor mics (generally for large theaters)
  • Wireless mics for vocalists
  • Amplification for live music

Fee Range:

$1000 - $20,000

State of Residence:

Connecticut

Minimum Number of Performers:

1

Maximum Number of Performers:

10