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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.
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Performing Group
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Nonprofit - Unincorporated
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2015
Institution/Business Type:
Performing Group
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Nonprofit - Unincorporated
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2015
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Dance - GeneralAdditional Disciplines:
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$250/hr minimum plus travel expenses for guest teaching, $55-65/hr for regular, weekly, local teaching, $100/hr for private lessonsTeaching Settings:
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$250/hr minimum plus travel expenses for guest teaching, $55-65/hr for regular, weekly, local teaching, $100/hr for private lessonsNEST Eligible Artist
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