kamrDANCE

kamrDANCE will be in residence at NXTHVN in New Haven, CT in January 2025. Within this period, kamrDANCE and their partners at SYREN Modern Dance (also awarded a residency), will co-offer a free community dance workshop open to all levels. kamrDANCE will also offer an open rehearsal hour for community members to watch the creative process on the final day. kamrDANCE will be working on choreography and musical arrangement for further creation of their full-length rock opera, The Mercy Velvet Project, which will premiere later in 2025. The work explores what makes us human, our collective need for community to survive—with musicians and dancers moving as one. The show tells the story of the album Live in Vain by Mercy Velvet through tap dance as percussion, contemporary dance, original text, and instrumentation via bass, guitar, vocals, and more—highlighting our vulnerabilities, learning together how to find the antidote that is mercy, and in turn lead meaningful lives.