Join us on Zoom for a Parlor Broadcast with Raja Feather Kelly, choreographer, director, and artistic director of the feath3r theory and New Brooklyn Theatre. In June, BAC and Princess Grace Foundation-USA offered Kelly a two-week virtual residency to support the creation of his latest project, Phantasia. Phantasia!. Working remotely with his collaborators, Kelly developed a multimedia ballet incorporating physical theater, documentary, cinéma vérité, and dance to create an alchemy in which each aspect touches and enhances the others from the moment of inception to performance. Phantasia. Phantasia! dissects and appropriates the tools of Walt Disney and his collaborators to unearth and interpret the debris of what Disney created and left behind.
Joined by his collaborators -- Sophie Maguire, Laura Snow, Kate Enman, You-Shin Chen, Tuce Yasak, and Remy Kurs -- Kelly will share material from his work-in-progress and discuss the process of transforming a traditional residency into a virtual format.
Raja Feather Kelly | the feath3r theory is a Princess Grace Foundation-USA Works-in-Progress Resident Artist.
Raja Feather Kelly
Raja Feather Kelly is a choreographer, director, and the artistic director of the feath3r theory and New Brooklyn Theatre. A three-time winner of the Princess Grace Award, Kelly is the 2019–2020 Randjelovic/Stryker Resident Commissioned Artist at New York Live Arts, an inaugural Jerome Hill Artist Fellow, and was a 2018-2019 fellow at the Center for Ballet and the Arts at NYU.