With a career spanning over two decades, Pellecchia has built a reputation for creating richly layered performance experiences through the fusion of dance with other art forms, such as visual art, theater, film and live music. DeAnna’s immersive, interdisciplinary approach to dance-making has provided her the opportunity to collaborate with a wide range of artists including Grammy-nominated musicians Kenny Werner, Dave Eggar, Chuck Palmer and Joshua Pierce; NYC music-icon, composer Johnny Reinhard; legendary choreographer Elaine Summers of the Judson Dance Theater; Mexico/NYC fashion designer Carla Fernandez; and internationally acclaimed visual artist Shinique Smith. She has also staged, choreographed and directed operas with Guggenheim Fellow composer Elena Ruehr, vocal ensemble Cappella Clausura, sinfonietta Sound Icon Ensemble, and vocal chamber ensemble Renaissance Men.

DeAnna is co-founder, artistic director and choreographer of Boston-based KAIROS Dance Theater, a contemporary dance company known for its commitment to utilizing intense physicality, strong theatrical elements, and expressive storytelling to explore the complexities of our collective humanness. KAIROS engages audiences around complex societal narratives by addressing topics such as gender, mental health, identity, human relationships, personal transformation, and the body’s relationship to space and environment. DeAnna’s work with KAIROS has been presented by the American Festival of Microtonal Music, Charles Playhouse / Broadway Across America, Institute of Contemporary Art Boston, The Huntington Theatre, Cotuit Center for the Arts, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Jazz at Lincoln Center (NYC), The Greenway in partnership with Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Busan Biennale (South Korea), Compass Theater (Russia), ZOU Arts Festival (France), and The Strand Theatre Boston, among many others; and has received funding from Boston Cultural Council, Massachusetts Cultural Council, Somerville Arts Council, Boston Dance Alliance, Boston Foundation, New England Foundation for the Arts, The Marcus Foundation, The Lynah Fund, Marcum LLP, and WS Development. DeAnna/KAIROS has been featured in local and national press including Dance Magazine, Broadway World, WBUR, Boston Magazine, The Arts Fuse, Boston Spirit Magazine, The Boston Phoenix, The Boston Herald and The Boston Globe (as a “Critic’s Pick” over 20 times); and live on WGBH Boston Public Radio, with Jim Braude and Margery Eagan.

In addition to her artistic work, Pellecchia is dedicated to dance education and has taught workshops and master classes across the U.S. and internationally, sharing her expertise in contemporary technique, improvisation, and choreography. She has taught as a guest artist at Boston Conservatory, Massachusetts College of Art, Mount Holyoke College, India’s University of Calicut, and Russia’s Evolution Dance Project, among others; and has been awarded residencies at Rhode Island College, Salem State University, Roger Williams University, The Dance Complex, URBANO Project, Medicine Wheel Productions, and Boston Center for the Arts. Currently, DeAnna resides on faculty at Boston University in the College of Fine Arts’ Theater Department, and at New England Conservatory in the Opera Studies/Stage Movement Department. Past dance faculty appointments include Cambridge School of Weston, Boston Ballet, Simmons College, and Wilson College as an MFA in Choreography Mentor. DeAnna is passionate about mentoring the next generation of dancers and dance-makers in order to continue to push the boundaries of what dance as an art form can achieve, both as a vehicle for artistic expression and as a tool for meaningful dialogue.