chameckilerner is a 30-year collaboration between Rosane Chamecki and Andrea Lerner, an interdisciplinary duo working in the intersection of dance and time-based media.
Chamecki and Lerner are natives of Curitiba, Brazil, and together they moved to New York City in 1989 and 1993 and created their first piece, Jackie & Judy, which premiered at The Bessie Schoenberg Dance Theater. They have been working together ever since.
chameckilerner is the recipient of various fellowships and grants for their multidisciplinary work, including the Guggenheim Fellowship, The Foundation for Contemporary Arts, NYFA Fellowship, NYSCA, NEFA, Jerome Foundation, Rockefeller MAP Fund, SIEMENS, ALTRIA, Greenwall Foundation, among others. Their work has been presented in the US by The Kitchen, DTW, The Joyce Theater, Performance Space 122, The Chocolate Factory Theater, Central Park SummerStage, Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, Mass MoCA, Diverseworks, Jacob’s Pillow, American Dance Festival, among others. In addition, their work toured extensively in both South America and Europe.
2003-2004, Chamecki and Lerner were the Artistic Directors of CASA HOFFMANN, a Center for Movement Studies, Curitiba, Brazil. This influential space devoted to the exploration of new languages and aesthetics in movement opened in June 2003. It brought international teachers, scholars, thinkers, and curators of movement and dance to engage with the local artists and arts community.
In 2007, chameckilerner premiered EXIT at The Kitchen in New York City. The piece was an artistic suicide of the duo known as chameckilerner. In EXIT, they investigate the possibility of extinction and reinvention; EXIT marked the beginning of chameckilerner’s interest in video and installation. This new body of work was featured in group shows, including Historias Brasileiras _MASP( Museum de Arte de Sao Paulo), The Contemporary Art Festival Sesc-VideoBrasil, Tupi or Not Tupi at Museum Oscar Niemeyer in Curitiba, Brazil, BLUEPRINT at MOCA Tucson, Boca Raton Museum of the Arts in Florida, Wexner Center for The Arts in Ohio, Philadelphia Museum of Dance/BARNES foundation in Pennsylvania, Flint Institute of the Arts, Michigan, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, SOFT POWER-Arte Brasil at Kunsthal KAdE in The Netherland, PERFORMA 09, INVISIBLE DOG in New York, Ron Mandos Gallery, Netherlands, and THE BOILER- PIEROGI GALLERY, NY, to name a few. Their work has been recently acquired by the Voorlinden Museum In The Netherlands.
chameckilerner was a resident at Robert Wilson’s Watermill Center in 2009, at EMPAC (Curtis R. Priem ExperimentalMedia and Performing Arts Center at Rensselaer), Troy, in 2014-15, and the YADDO Foundation in 2018. Chameckilerner was a 2019 Artist in Residence at the ROBERT RAUSCHENBERG Foundation and a Gibney DIP Residency Artist. In 2020, they received the Fall 2020 Fellowships at The Bogliasco Foundation In Italy.
Aging Prelude premiered at the Chocolate Factory Theater in NYC in 2023. This piece marks chameckilerner’s return to live performance after a hiatus of 15 years. In 2026, Epílogo, the Brazilian version of Aging Prelude performs at 11ª MITsp – São Paulo International Theatre Festival.
Transmissions studies the ways we imprint ourselves on one another. Borrowing from the childhood game of Telephone, chameckilerner create a movement phrase from a collage of segments that appeared on their social media during a single day in 2025. The phrase is passed on to a series of willing participant and street passersby. The work unfolds as an accumulation of different translations, exposing the mechanics of learning, communication, interference, and communion.
“My creative history with New Dance Alliance goes a way long. Since my friend, Chivas Sandage brought me to New Dance Alliance to rehearse in early 90’s, the place has become a part of my creative life. The long time existence of the studio and Performance Mix Festival are vital to the artists who seek and explore deep into their process. Whenever I step into the studio, it’s a new space with a lot of memories. I lie down on the floor, listen to my body, and I dance. It is valuable. The time in the space nurtures my practice and artistic vision. Karen’s vision of Lift-Off residency, feedback sessions, providing peer to peer connections are more significant than ever. It has been helping us to get through 2020 and we are going into 2021.”
– Nami Yamamoto
New Dance Alliance
182 Duane Street
New York, NY 10013
All venues are wheelchair accessible.
