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DeAnna Pellecchia is a dancer, athlete, aerialist, actress, and choreographer committed to collaboratively creating multi-disciplinary works of live art. She crafts performance pieces that seamlessly blur lines of integration between the disciplines of dance, martial arts, visual art, theater, music and film. DeAnna has danced with horses, in trees, on stilts, under water and through air; has been featured in rodeos, operas, plays, fashion shows, magazines, movies and music videos; and has performed in countless unconventional landscapes as well as theaters of all shapes and sizes across the U.S. from the Kennedy Performing Arts Center in Washington D.C. to the Burning Man Festival in the Nevada desert. She has made performance pieces with composer Johnny Reinhard, Grammy-nominated musicians Dave Eggar and Joshua Pierce and legendary choreographers Elaine Summers and Ann Carlson. Her work has been presented by the American Festival of Microtonal Music, The Charles Street Playhouse / Broadway Across America, The Huntington Theater and The Boston Center for the Arts, among others. Alongside Ingrid Schatz, DeAnna is co-choreographer of Kairos Dance Theater, an eclectic performance company committed to creating emotionally powerful, viscerally charged dance theater. She is a principal dancer with internationally acclaimed Paula Josa-Jones/Performance Works. As an original cast member of PJJ/PW's "RIDE" Project, DeAnna has been dancing with horses for the past ten years. She dances with Kinodance Company (named one of Dance Magazine’s “Top 25 to Watch” in 2008), an interdisciplinary artist collective which marries film projection with live performance. DeAnna also currently performs with Anna Myer & Dancers and Wendy Jehlen’s Anikai Dance Company. She danced with Bennett Dance Company from 1999-2007, of which she was a founding member and for which she was Assistant Choreographer and Rehearsal Director. She has performed with Michael Jahoda's White Box Project, Ipswich Moving Company and Nicola Hawkins Dance Company. DeAnna acted the lead in director Gary Shore's feature-length film "Children of Providence"; additionally she choreographed all of the movement sequences for the film. Ms. Pellecchia received a BA in Dance / Performance from Roger Williams University. As a dance educator DeAnna has taught and been taught by movers of all kinds - doctors, musicians, quadriplegics, teenagers, the elderly, professional dancers and corporate business managers. She has resided on dance faculty at Boston University since 2002. She is the founder/director of "Dance at St. Paul's", a workshop and performance series at The Cathedral Church of St. Paul on Tremont Street. She specializes in working with teens and currently holds residency as a staff artist at Urbano Project, providing much needed mentorship to young people across the city of Boston. DeAnna greatly enjoys teaching inquisitive, courageous teenagers how to express themselves through the medium of dance, and in the process beautify the world.
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