KELLY ANDERSON DANCE THEATRE is a Chicago-based performance company whose work is inspired by humor, theater and pop culture. KADT creates relatable work driven by complicated topics. “Seamlessly weaving movement and dialogue,” Anderson strives to bridge the gap between artist and non-artist through comedy “filtered perfectly throughout a series of serious moments.” Kelly has been a recipient of Chicago’s Links Hall Artist in Residence and her work has been performed/commissioned in Chicago, NYC, Milwaukee, Detroit, Minneapolis and Portland, OR. “A master of comedic timing… Anderson proves that dance doesn’t have to be dead serious.”
*Credits- Lauren Warnecke (Chicago Magazine) and Kristin Vasilakos (Performance Response Journal)
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Kelly Anderson is the Director/Founder of Death's Door Dance Festival and the Artistic Director of Kelly Anderson Dance Theatre--a company inspired by variety, theater and comedy. Evening-length works include: THE END IS HERE and that's ok., presented in Links Hall's 40th Anniversary Season, Skits and Pieces, presented in Steppenwolf's LookOut Series (2017), "In Sarah's Shadow: The Eleonora Duse Story," a co-creation with Writer/Director Olivia Lilley at Prop Thtr (2017), “Livin’ the Dream" (2017), VAUDEVILLE! (2015) and the Chicago company debut, Message Me If... in 2014. Prior to her arrival to Chicago in 2012, Kelly co-created the evening-length: this is how we disappear and The Little Things with Portland-based performance company bobbevy. Kelly has created two solo shows with the Danceworks Performance Company (Milwaukee, WI), Vaudeville and The Bra Project. Her most notable independently produced works include a dance/theater/opera collaboration, 26, with Milwaukee Opera Theatre, choreography for Gal Friday Film's Missed Connections, Red Knife Lottery's music video "Junkie Jazz", the creation of The Mondo Lucha Dancers for the Mondo Lucha Variety Show, two collaborative evening- lengths, Vacant (w/Kelly Zwiers) and Bad Meat (Jacob Neumann), choreography for A Wrinkle in Time with actor/director Mark Metcalf and The First Stage production of Peter Pan. Her work has been performed in The Minnesota Fringe Festival, Detroit Dance Festival, and her commissioned work, Shower, was presented at Puffin Room in NYC. Chicago performance credits include D49 Festival (2014), Harvest Chicago Contemporary Dance Festival (2014), THAW (2013-2021), It's Happening! (2017 & 2016) and Mediums (2016) at Links Hall. Anderson was awarded a CoMISSION through Links Hall for their 2019-2020 season.
