DeAnna Pellecchia has taught and been taught by movers of all kinds. She has worked with doctors, musicians, quadriplegics, underprivileged youth, the elderly, professional dancers and corporate business managers, proudly helping to reveal the dancer in each of them. She has taught dance and movement at schools, universities and institutions throughout the country. Currently she resides on dance faculty at Boston University and The Urbano Project. She is also the founder/director of "Dance at St. Paul's", a workshop and performance series at The Cathedral Church of St. Paul on Tremont Street in Boston.
MASTER CLASSES AND WORKSHOPS
for Professional and Pre-Professional Dancers
DeAnna's high-energy technique class, grounded in orientation, emphasizes athleticism, strength and fluidity. Her contemporary choreography is strongly influenced by her extensive studies in martial arts, jazz technique and hip-hop. DeAnna teaches master classes and workshops for professional and pre-professional dancers, (beginner, intermediate and advanced levels) in Technique, Performance Skills, Aerial Dance, Improvisation and Composition and has been featured as a guest artist at
PRIVATE LESSONS DeAnna teaches private lessons in any of the afore mentioned disciplines. She also teaches classes on achieving correct anatomical alignment, repatterning learned movement behavior, and conditioning & flexibility work geared specifically toward dancers. DeAnna designs each individual class curriculum according to student's specific needs and goals. Please CONTACT DEANNA for more information.
SPECIALTY WORKSHOPS
The Herb Lovett Memorial Fund
DeAnna instructed a seminar for people with severe handicaps at the 2002 TASH Conference. TASH is the international association of people with disabilities, their family members, other advocates, and professionals fighting for a society in which inclusion of all people in all aspects of society is the norm. DeAnna, and long-time collaborator Ingrid Schatz, with the Herb Lovett Memorial Fund, worked to celebrate citizens of all abilities by abandoning the notion that individuals exist as either "able" or "disabled". Workshops encouraged participants to create their own movement through guided tasks and culminated in a performance uniting movers of all abilities.
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