Kelly Keenan
Part-Time Faculty Department of Contemporary Dance
Individualized MA
Concordia University

Kelly is a Montreal based contemporary dance artist and teacher working in the field since 2001. As a performer, Kelly has danced for several choreographers and is currently in creation processes for pieces by Katie Ward (Compagnie Katie Ward), Adam Kinner, and Sarah-Éve Grant, each of which will be performed in the 2019-2020 season.

Kelly teaches regularly for organizations, offering continued training for professional dancers, including Studio 303, le Régroupement Québécoise de la Danse, TransformationDanse, L’Artère (QC), The Toronto Love-In, as well as abroad in the US and Europe. Kelly is part-time faculty at Concordia University’s Department of Contemporary Dance, where she teaches contemporary technique, an in-studio practice based Undergraduate course.

As a choreographer, Kelly is presently pursuing an MA in Concordia’s Individualized program at the hinge of Dance Studies, Art Education and Sensory Anthropology. Her research addresses the contradiction that dance, as a kinestethic practice, is mainly performed for the spectator and accessed through the visual sense. Kelly’s research-creation project, For Bodies on Bodies (working title), inquires into Somatic Choreography as a means to dissolve distances and enfold the felt experience of dance practice as performance.