"...compelling..." -Thea Singer, The Boston Globe "...intense..." -Christine Temin, The Boston Globe
"...adventurous..." -Dance Magazine
"...mysterious..." -Marcia Siegel, The Boston Phoenix
"...stunning..." -Theodore Bale, The Boston Herald
"...gorgeous..." -Lisa Jo Sagolla, Backstage
"...muscular, mesmerizing... contorted,harrowing...unforgettable..." -Thomas Garvey, Bay Windows
"electric...a dancer of...sinewy athleticism..." -Chelsey Philpot, Big, Red & Shiny
"...a captivating creature... -Terri Unger, The Ipswich Chronicle
"a committed and daring performer..." -Karen Campbell, The Boston Globe "...lines so long and elegant, they bend into curves..." -Thea Singer, The Boston Globe
"(DeAnna) moves through vertical space with the strength of a gymnast, the ease of an acrobat and the grace of a dancer..." -Denise Taylor, The Boston Globe
"DeAnna Pellecchia...dancer and model without peer..." -Jeff Anderson, photographer,Eighth Generation photoGraphics
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STUFF MAGAZINE BODIES BY BOSTON
STUFF Magazine named DeAnna one of "BOSTON'S BEST BODIES", featuring her "most well-scuplted physique" alongside professional athletes from Beantown's own Bruins, Celtics and Patriots teams.
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"At one point (DeAnna Pellecchia and Pradhuman Nayak) appear to be feral cats, which stalk suspensefully and then battle it out in an exciting capoeira duet. An intriguing mound, made (by the same dancers) one draped on top of another, grows gorgeously into a tall tree." -Lisa Jo Sagolla, BACKSTAGE
“DeAnna dances like a slippery bar of evil soap…” -Dina Fanai, singer/songwriter/recording artist, on DeAnna’s performance opposite cellist Dave Eggar in 'Odysseus' – a polymicrotonal opera directed by Johnny Reinhard of the American Festival of Microtonal Music
"Ingrid Schatz and DeAnna Pellecchia might be the sexiest and most ironic duo on the local scene. Their five-part "Sole" vacillated between unison archetype (a tap duet to a French chanson) and stage combat...(ending) with one woman claiming physical victory of the other...they represent a new wave in contemporary dance." -Theodore Bale, The Boston Herald
"DeAnna Pellecchia's dramatic 'Tang,' another premiere, effectively pulled flamenco, tango, jazz, capoeira, and martial arts into a study in contrasts, with blistering turns and sharp angles melting into sensuous rolls of the torso and hips." -Karen Campbell, The Boston Globe
"...red-orange flames (of light) lick a dancer (DeAnna Pellecchia) onstage while the images of fire rage behind her...the result is a breathtaking synthesis..." - Terry Byrne, The Boston Globe on DeAnna's solo performance in Kinodance Company's "Denizen"
DeAnna Pellecchia in "Amazonian glitter...cavorts, hangs, flips, gyrates inside or outside a giant box encased in taut gauze on which and through light splinters into confetti, explodes into wide green bands or windows, erupts in pink bubbles or ribbons of fire." Kinodance's "clanging multi-sensory collaborations... jangle like a sock to the jaw" and have "the power to rock a bit of your world". -Thea Singer, DANCE REVIEW of Kinodance Company's world premiere "FUSE", THE BOSTON GLOBE
"Mysterious figures (the choreographers and Stephanie Lanckton and DeAnna Pellecchia) glimmered and went invisible in a 12-foot room with a scrim for a front wall. Kathy Couch’s atmospheric lighting and projections caught them crouching inside the room, suspended on its roof, hanging from the ceiling and clambering up one perforated wall...the movement suggested dramatic encounters. Characters seemed to stalk other characters, capture them, partner them in shadow duets. A woman ricocheted off the walls;I thought of Lillian Gish trapped in a closet in Broken Blossoms." Marcia Siegel, DANCE REVIEW of Kinodance Company's world premiere "FUSE", THE BOSTON PHOENIX
"The dancer (DeAnna Pellecchia), clad in a dominatrix-esque silver and black outfit out of a grade B space movie, clung to the walls, the ceiling, anywhere she could possibly make an escape as her aggressors moved closer and closer. The sexual tension they created moved in waves off the stage and continued even after the attacked dancer left the box." -Chelsey Philpot, DANCE REVIEW of Kinodance Company's world premiere "FUSE", BIG RED & SHINY
“Christine Bennett and DeAnna Pellecchia…slide while standing, sitting, and even flipping over. The dancers' expressions are intense, their repetitions almost obsessive.” – Christine Temin, The Boston Globe, on DeAnna’s performance in “Surfacing”, Bennett Dance Company
“There were some very striking images, especially of one woman (DeAnna Pellecchia) hanging upside down, half in and out of the house, as if testing the air…" -Karen Campbell, The Boston Globe, on DeAnna’s performance in “Inner House”, Bennett Dance Company
"They climb, embrace and intertwine on a knotted-rope net high above the stage. They balance precariously on the side of a copper container filled with water, sluicing more water over themselves from aluminum buckets, without fear of slipping. They swing and become entangled, performing balancing feats that would have Ringling Bros.' acrobats trembling in fear... combining...movements that would exhaust an average dance company. That hard work shows in the dancers' forms. While most dancers have well-muscled legs, Bennett's dancers have as much upper body strength, the better to pull themselves up ropes or lift each other from the water. Their work is a collaborative effort -- there is no one central vision, simply a dance that evolves from the company's individual skills.” -Preview article on Bennett Dance Company's Air & Water, Jennifer Lord, Metro West Daily News
"(DeAnna)...effortlessly skims to the top of the netting then inches her way down backward, head first, as the others lay trapped beneath, straining upward. In one duet, (she)...tugs at the ropes as if trying to tame a wild beast." -Karen Campbell, The Boston Globe, on DeAnna's performance in "The Net", Bennett Dance Company
"...the production keeps you looking, and looking again and again..." -Wendall Waters review of Ipswich Moving Company's Dreaming Head, The Ipswich Chronicle
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Bodies by Boston: Our second annual list of the city's finest physiques Stuff@Night Magazine by Heather Bouzan "...we’re peeling away the layers...to expose some of the city’s most well-sculpted physiques..." CLICK HEREto read more...
Odysseus Critic's Classical Pick featured in The Boston Globe's SIDEKICK EVENT PREVIEW, By Karen Campbell, 5/1/08 CLICK HERE to read more...
Common Heritage, Diverse Careers: Dance Alumnae Return to RWU as Guest Artists Roger Williams University Feature "Teaching dance, founding a dance company, dancing with horses…" CLICK HERE to read more...
Multi Media Show at Eastern Nazarene The Patriot Ledger "The group’s works feature choreography by DeAnna Pellecchia, and mythic storytelling and music..." CLICK HERE to read more...
Dance Instructor Premieres New Choreography Boston University Today By Rebecca McNamara "DeAnna Pellecchia will premiere an original work at this weekend’s Dance Showcase 2007" CLICK HERE to read more...
Taking Flight DANCE PREVIEW, The Providence Phoenix by Johnette Rodriguez "...dancers who credit Davis with having an important impact on their careers including DEANNA PELLECCHIA..." CLICK HERE to read more... BU faculty members step to the fore DANCE REVIEW, The Boston Globe, by Karen Campbell "DeAnna Pellechia's dramatic 'Tang,' another premiere, effectively pulled..." CLICK HERE to read more...
KAIROS DANCE THEATER Dancers unveil smooth ‘Moves’ DANCE REVIEW, The Boston Herald By Theodore Bale "Ingrid Schatz and DeAnna Pellecchia might be the sexiest and most ironic duo on the local scene" CLICK HERE to read more...
KINODANCE COMPANY
Crasharts presents: Lorranine Chapman the Company and Kinodance DANCE REVIEW, Big Red & Shiny, 4/27/08 By Chelsey Philpot ”The energy of the piece, from the electric dancing to the haunting light design, was too engrossing and, like a film with blood and gore, you could not turn it off.” CLICK HERE to read more...
Senses Sent Reeling and Feeling DANCE REVIEW, The Boston Globe, 11/12/08 by Thea Singer DeAnna Pellecchia in "Amazonian glitter...cavorts, hangs, flips, gyrates inside or outside a giant box..." CLICK HERE to read more...
Into the light Collaboration fuses dance with projections, music, and more in a multimedia experience DANCE PREVIEW, The Boston Globe, 4/11/08 By Janine Parker "Artists from multiple disciplines - including dancer DeAnna Pellecchia - are weaving their crafts into the performance piece 'Fuse'." CLICK HERE to read more....
Listed as one of DANCE MAGAZINE's "Top 25 to watch in 2008" CLICK HERE to read more...
A layered treat of sound, light, moving images DANCE REVIEW, The Boston Globe by Terry Byrne "...a daring and dramatically theatrical experience..." CLICK HERE to read more...
Team works: Fico Balet, Kinodance, and Elaine Summers DANCE REVIEW, The Boston Phoenix, 5/05 “Crow’s Nest was an improvisation for seven dancers moving through…” CLICK HERE to read more…
PAULA JOSA-JONES / PERFORMANCE WORKS
Paula Josa-Jones Premiers 'Ride', Equestrian Dance Theatre Performance On Martha's Vineyard Horse Daily, 7/01 “…Combining the equestrian tradition of dressage, aerial and modern dance…” CLICK HERE to read more…
Paula Josa-Jones. - Boston Conservatory Theater, Boston, Massachusetts DANCE REVIEW, Dance Magazine, 12/97 by Iris M. Fanger “Two special attributes mark Paula Josa-Jones's work after twenty-five years…" CLICK HERE to read more…
BENNETT DANCE COMPANY
Thrills, spills, and visual chills… Dance Magazine, 7/04 “Extreme risk, adventurous dancers, add visually arresting stage design…” CLICK HERE to read more… In her elements with 'Air & Water' DANCE REVIEW, The Boston Globe, 4/3/04 “…vivid, provocative metaphors...not only imaginative...viscerally satisfying…” CLICK HEREto read more… Wet 'n' Wild: Bennett Dance Company unveils daring dance at Regis College DANCE PREVIEW, Metro West Daily News, 4/1/04 “Gravity doesn't appear to be an issue for the Bennett Dance Company…” CLICK HERE to view as a WORDdoc. Dancers hanging around this weekend DANCE PREVIEW, The Boston Globe, 4/1/04 “Like helpless flies before a spider's web, four dark figures jerk and twitch…” CLICK HERE to read more… Lifting off: In two local productions, dance takes a new step DANCE PREVIEW, The Boston Globe, 1/11/04 “Christine Bennett and DeAnna Pellecchia are pouring water on the floor…” CLICK HERE to read more…
IPSWICH MOVING COMPANY
Dreaming Head DANCE PREVIEW, The Ipswich Chronicle "Ipswich Moving Company's newest production, 'Dreaming Head' draws on the surrealist movement..." CLICK HERE to read more...
NICOLA HAWKINS DANCE COMPANY
Spirited "Toussaint' and 'Moon' are realizations of artistic promise OPERA REVIEW, The Boston Globe, 6/10/03 “…Unlimited's festival of operas is a powerhouse evening of musical theater…” CLICK HERE to read more… Nicola Hawkins Dance Company. - TSAI Performance Center, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts DANCE REVIEW, Dance Magazine, 4/97 by Iris M. Fanger “Hawkins established a company of women that has gained a wide following…” CLICK HERE to read more…
