Saturday Workshop with Raja Feather Kelly

This workshop teaches the methodology ‘Honest Reactions To Imaginary Situations’. It is an approach to creating and performing that above all relies on, centers, and fights for truth. ‘Honest Reactions To Imaginary Situations’ is a provocative examination of the thrill of creating performance. This work regards the performer as the creator and the creator as the performer – on and off the stage. Built from his approach to devised theatre, Raja Feather Kelly works candidly with repetition and failure as key ingredients toward, reactive, responsive, and un-restricted theatricality. Each class tackles the seven majors areas to Kelly’s approach to performing truthfully in an assumed reality. They are Extempore; Interrogation; Debate; Agility; Nothing; Tension; and Freedom. Each one can be used to develop a deep sense of awareness and one’s imaginary force- and when used well, a rare radical honesty.

This workshop offers every practitioner unfiltered insight into Kelly’s creative process. This approach is both a compendium for creative work and a field-guide. Through improvisation, exercises, movement, and scene development, this workshop prides itself on an unabridged offering of understanding, experience, and motivation.

About Raja Feather Kelly

Raja Feather Kelly is a choreographer, a director, and the artistic director of the feath3r theory. He is an Obie, BESSIE, and a three-time Princess Grace Award winner. He has created fifteen evening-length premieres with his company the feath3r theory, as well as directing and choreographing extensively for Off-Broadway theatre in New York City.

About Gibney’s Training Program

Through the cultivation of an inclusive and positive space, our offerings make space for exploration, risk-taking, personal and artistic growth, connection, and fun. It is our priority to listen to and support our community and to empower the future leaders of the field. Learn more.

Gibney encourages people with disabilities to attend online classes, and we welcome the opportunity to make this event more accessible. Live captioning through Otter Transcription is available for all online classes by request. If you have any questions or access needs, please email us at classes@gibneydance.org or call us at 212-677-8560 (voice only) 24 hours in advance of the class you plan to attend.

Photo courtesy of the artist.