Kairos Dance Theater co-founded by DeAnna Pellecchia and Ingrid Schatz, is an eclectic performance company committed to creating emotionally powerful, viscerally charged dance theater that stimulates the senses and demands total presence of mind and body.The ancient Greeks regarded two types of time: “chronos” - referring to chronological, or ordinary time; and “kairos” - meaning unique time, or time which can’t be quantified. Kairos is the moment of decision, the moment of action, the moment of change.Kairos Dance Theater embodies this instant by exploring the opportunity of the present moment. Kairos performances transcend time, defy conventional perception and challenge the state of complacency.
“Ingrid Schatz and DeAnna Pellecchia might be the sexiest and most ironic duo on the local scene...they represent a new wave in contemporary dance…” - Theodore Bale, The Boston Herald
"You never know exactly who will show up in Boston University's annual Dance Showcase...highlights this year include the stunning Ingrid Schatz and DeAnna Pellecchia..." -Theodore Bale, The Boston Herald
THAT GIRL AND THE OTHER ONE
"That Girl and The Other One" explores the intense dynamics that are cultivated in relationships between women from the on-set of adolescence. Dirty looks, taunting notes, exclusions from social groups, non-verbal gesturing, secrets - beginning at an early age and continuing into adulthood, there is a hidden culture of female aggression in our society which is as widespread as it is painful.
Using personal experience and anecdotal evidence from "Odd Girl Out" by Rachel Simmons as the starting point, the two performers explore the emotional rift within the self and between self and other in the context of female aggression through a contemporary modern dance duet. Danced to diverse music including French cabaret by Tino Rossi, Techno-dance music by Royksopp and jazz by Me'shell Ndegeocello, "That Girl and The Other One" depicts the interactive landscape between two women and their struggle to exist in a culturally "look-obsessed", "competitive", "jealous" environment. The two dancers move from one enigmatic vignette to the next; scenes are skewed, thrown away and then curiously reappear, following the ever determined emotional "logic" of girls' relationships with each other; inside bruised and beating hearts, the thin line between friend and foe, love and hate, pride and jealousy blurs...
"That Girl and The Other One" is currently in development and will premiere as an evening-length production in 2008. Please check back for updated details.
