DeAnna Pellecchia is committed to collaboratively creating multi-sensory works of live art. She creates performance pieces, both site-specific and for the stage, that seamlessly integrate the disciplines of dance, theater, martial arts, visual art, music and digital technology. DeAnna’s choreographic style, movement that blends free-wheeling turns and leaps with sudden inversions, quirky gestures and intricate footwork, is both emotionally rich and starkly beautiful. Her high-energy choreography is very grounded in nature, influenced by her extensive studies in martial arts, and punctuated with quick, explosive accents, characteristic of jazz and hip-hop. Her work has been described as "dramatic... effective... blistering...and sensuous". DeAnna has been commissioned to create numerous solo performances as well as ensemble pieces and has been presented by the American Festival of Microtonal Music, The Charles Street Playhouse, Broadway Across America, Critical Moves Performance Series, Outside Art Collective, The Huntington Theater, Boston University, Roger Williams University, The Boston Center for the Arts, Mobius, The Order of The Artists, The Dance Complex, and Green Street Studios. DeAnna makes work in collaboration with choreographer Ingrid Schatz as KAIROS Dance Theater and in collaboration with musician Ed Broms as Savage Amusements.
