kamrDANCE

Are you or do you?

Can a pair of shoes change your identity? If we don’t know the answer, do we know who we are? Through the duality of abstract vs. theatrical storytelling, “Are you or do you?” aims to explore these questions surrounding identity and more. This duet explores ‘hand-ography’ and the exact phrases from our hands are transferred into full body movements, tap and contemporary dance conversing. But the full embodiment leads us to question why we take up space as female performing artists, what genre we belong to, and whether knowing or not knowing will defeat us – or push us to keep going. 

Since 2015, kamrDANCE has been intricately fusing tap, percussive movement, and contemporary dance with humor to investigate the female experience, laughter, and absurdity. Under the direction of Artistic Director and Choreographer Alexis Robbins, kamrDANCE has performed at venues across the northeast, including Woods Hole Community Hall, Arlington Center for the Arts, Hudson Guild Theater, Triskelion Arts, Actors Fund Arts Center, Dixon Place, Center for Performance Research, Highline Ballroom, Symphony Space, AS220 and more. kamrDANCE has been the NACHMO featured artist for the NACHMO Theater Shows, produced an evening-length show at SMUSH Gallery in Jersey City for two nights of sold out audiences and commissioned to perform at the Transit Museum in Downtown Brooklyn. kamrDANCE has self produced two dance films which have been screened in New York, New Jersey, Texas, and Bergen, Norway. Most recently, Robbins was selected to create a new dance film for One Day Dance Season Two and is a commissioned choreographer through Artspace New Haven for City Wide Open Studios.