Deanne Kearney is a current Ph.D. candidate in Dance Studies at York University in Toronto, Ontario. Deanne has been afforded many great writing opportunities from Dance Magazine, The Dance Current Magazine, Dance International Magazine and Mooney on Theatre. She now reviews dance shows on her own website, The Dance Debrief.

Deanne has interned with the internationally acclaimed Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival, where she worked within the dance archives. She has completed The National Ballet of Canada's Emerging Dance Critics programme, the New York Time's 'How to Think and Write Like a Critic' course and an editorial internship withThe Dance Current Magazine. 

She is apart of KeepRockinYou's Toronto B-Girl Movement as a teacher and alumni and the Badass Babes Dance intensive and advanced companies.