Raja Feather Kelly

Movement and Composition Sessions with Dance Division Students: Sessions with Composition III and fourth-year dance students, discussing original works, the creative process, and leading movement exercises

Mentorship of Student-Initiated Projects with Drama Division Students: Guidance for third-year Drama Division students as they developed and directed their peers in short passion projects

Solo Creation and Performance Project with Dance, Drama, and Music Division Students: Workshop for students across divisions to create a devised solo and explore themes of popular culture, archive, and personal aesthetic with his “feath3r theory” approach

Artistic Collaboration in Film and Beyond: A Virtual Conversation with Creative Associates Nicholas Britell and Colman Domingo, Moderated by Creative Associate Raja Feather Kelly: A virtual discussion on artistic process and creative collaboration, including on the artists' work together on Barry Jenkins’ film If Beale Street Could Talk

Do We Create Culture, or Does Culture Create Us? A Conversation with Creative Associate Raja Feather Kelly: a conversation to share excerpts of projects developed with the feath3r theory company and to discuss the foundational question throughout Kelly's career: Do we create culture, or does culture create us?

Modern Composition Sessions with Members of the Dance Division: A virtual session with second-year dance students focused on devising original work for a modern audience. 

Raja Feather Kelly is a choreographer, director, and the artistic director of the feath3r theory. A three-time winner of the Princess Grace Award, Kelly is the 2019–20 Randjelović/Stryker resident commissioned artist at New York Live Arts, a Creative Associate at Juilliard, an inaugural Jerome Hill artist fellow, a 2019 Creative Capital award recipient, and a resident artist of HERE and Center for Ballet and the Arts at NYU. Kelly has been granted a 2019–21 National Dance Project production grant. Over the past decade, he has created 15 evening-length premieres with his company the feath3r theory as well as directing and choreographing extensively Off Broadway. He was a 2019 Stage Directors and Choreographers Foundation (SDCF) Joe Callaway Award finalist for outstanding choreography of A Strange Loop and Fairview and won a 2018 SDCF Breakout Award.