kamrDANCE

ABOUT US:

Since 2015, kamrDANCE has been intricately fusing tap and contemporary dance to tell stories about questioning identity, our relationships with our bodies, family legacy, and more. kamrDANCE’s choreographic works utilize the power of tap dance as music, along with original poetry, text, music, and physical theater. Under the direction of Artistic Director and Choreographer Alexis Robbins, kamrDANCE has performed at venues, events, and online performances throughout the northeast, created five dance films, and self-produced several, sold out evening length and split bill shows.
We believe that tap dance is music and that music exists to be danced to. We believe in collaboration and prioritize interdisciplinary performance works. We believe that dance can happen in any space, nothing is too big, too small, or too weird. We believe that dance, music, and theatre are vehicles for connection and empathy, and therefore our humanity and survival.

Since 2022, kamrDANCE has been collaborating with SYREN Modern Dance to produce Creative Circle events for the Greater New Haven community which showcase dance works in progress and invite the audience into the process. Creative Circle has taken place at Krikko Obbot’s Hill Museum, where donations were collected for the NICE Food Pantry, and at the Church of St. Paul and St. James, which received funding support from the Community Foundation of Greater New Haven, where gently used clothes were collected for the St. PJ’s clothing drive. The most recent Creative Circle offering was in the form of a free workshop at NXTHVN for all levels of movers in conjunction with creative residencies for each company.

current projects (available for performing/touring)

the mercy velvet project: world premiere june 26&27, 2026

The Mercy Velvet Project has been supported in creative residencies at the Yale Schwarzman Center (2025) and NXTHVN (2025, 2026) in New Haven, CT, and Music Back Then (2025) via support from ArtsWest CT in West Haven, CT. The June 2026 premiere of The Mercy Velvet Project is supported by the Yale Schwarzman Center, the International Festival of Arts and Ideas, and Yale Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies. kamrDANCE has also received support for The Mercy Velvet Project from the New England Foundation for the Arts (New England Dance Fund), the Connecticut Office of the Arts (2025 Artist Fellowship), and a long list of incredibly generous, individual donors.

The Mercy Velvet Project is available for touring engagements. If you are interested in supporting or presenting this work, please email kamrdanceco@gmail.com. kamrDANCE is NEST (New England States Touring) eligible.

How Do You Feel? - excerpt from The Mercy Velvet Project

Photos by Gio Roper and Mike Kreiness