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Past Performing Arts | Interdisciplinary
Live Q&A | June 2
Virtual
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Take a wild trip through the pop culture landscape with a Warholian alien guide. Stay tuned after the presentation for a live Q&A with Kelly via Vimeo.
HYSTERIA, a performance installation work reconfigured for virtual presentation, finds award-winning director and choreographer Raja Feather Kelly continuing his ongoing study of pop culture and its displacement of queer Black subjectivity.
Picking up where his 2018 performance work UGLY (Black Queer Zoo) left off, Kelly resituates himself as a glamorous, extraterrestrial entity—both alien to the world and wholly consuming its pop cultural byproducts. HYSTERIA marks the collapse of fiction into fact, tracking the subsequent inner turmoil, confusion, and mania that the artist sets out to exorcise.
Kelly introduces the presentation live on June 2 starting at 5 PM EST and participates in a Q&A afterward; HYSTERIA remains on our site through June 18.
Raja Feather Kelly in HYSTERIA, photo: Kate Enman
Raja Feather Kelly is the artistic director of New Brooklyn Theatre. In 2009, he founded the dance-theatre-media company the feath3r theory. The two companies merged in 2018. Kelly was named the 2019–20 Randjelović/Stryker Resident Commissioned Artist at New York Live Arts and is an inaugural Jerome Hill Artist Fellow. Other recent accolades include a Creative Capital Award (2019), a National Dance Project Production Grant (2019), a Breakout Award from the Stage Directors and Choreographers Foundation (2018), Dance Magazine and Harkness Foundation’s inaugural Harkness Promise Award (2018), and the Princess Grace Award (2017, 2018, 2019). He was born in Fort Hood, Texas, and holds a BA in dance and English from Connecticut College.
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Raja Feather Kelly
