Podcast: Raja Feather Kelly
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- May 27
- 2 min read
Raja Feather Kelly is a choreographer, director, and the Artistic Director of the feath3r theory (TF3T), the Brooklyn-based dance-theatre-media company he founded in 2009. Over the past decade, he has created 19 evening-length works with TF3T to critical acclaim, most recently Bunny Bunny at The Invisible Dog. In 2026, TF3T will present a triptych titled A Body of Dangerous Ideas: Between Two Confessions. Between Two Confusions. (choreographed by Bill T. Jones and performed by Kelly), What Does It Matter. (choreographed and performed by Kelly and Spencer James Weidie), and DOOMSCROLLERS (performed by TF3T). In 2025, Kelly served as Production Dramaturg for Elle Barbara’s AUTOGYNEGAMY at the National Arts Centre and as a DanceWEB Mentor at the ImPulsTanz Festival; he returns in 2026 to direct Barbara’s one-man show at Théâtre Outremont and to mentor again in Vienna. Recent projects include co-directing Michael R. Jackson’s Complications in Sue at Opera Philadelphia, choreography for Missy Mazzoli’s Lincoln in the Bardo at the Metropolitan Opera, and directing/choreographing TEETH by Michael R. Jackson and Anna K. Jacobs. He choreographed the Tony Award–winning A Strange Loop and Fairview, both Pulitzer Prize winners, and has been praised by The New York Times as a choreographer who “can make your play move.” Additional credits include The Absolute Future, White Girl in Danger, We’re Gonna Die, SUFFS, Lempicka, The Listeners, Scenes for an Ending, and Macbeth in Stride. His playwriting debut, The Fires (SoHo Rep, 2024), was a New York Times Critics’ Pick. His honors include a Doris Duke Artist Award, Princeton Arts Fellowship, Creative Capital Award, Obie Award, Bessie Award, and three Princess Grace Awards, among many others. Kelly has performed with Reggie Wilson/Fist and Heel, David Dorfman Dance, Kyle Abraham/Abraham.In.Motion, and zoe | juniper, and has held teaching positions at Yale, Princeton, Juilliard, and NYU. Born in Fort Hood, he holds a B.A. from Connecticut College and a certificate from the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute.
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"Good Choices - A holistic conversation about dance, art & life with Sabine Parzer" is a podcast series in which we invite professionals of the dance and art world as well as related fields to speak about the choices that they make, artistically, personally, ecologically, politically and spiritually. How do these choices affect and inspire them in their work, their physical and mental health, their family lives, the communities that they live in? The questions we ask look toward the interrelation of life and art, how seemingly small (or big) choices may influence, enhance or even contradict the flow of life. Sabine Parzer is head and founder of the Holistic Dance Institute, an internationally well known teacher of Contemporary Dance, Contact improvisation and Authentic Movement. She has been professionally active as a dancer, choreographer, teacher, dance- and body therapist for more than 30 years in the USA, Europe, Russia, Brazil and Israel.
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Holistic Dance Institute
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