Designed for up-and-coming choreographers, directors, and generative artists, this Process Immersion with Raja Feather Kelly invites you into an intensive, practice-based investigation of what it means to lead creatively and authentically.

Raja’s approach dismantles the traditional teacher-student model in favor of one that centers experimentation, authorship, and individuality. Through rigorous improvisation, choreographic invention, and physical research, participants will unpack foundational principles of space, time, dynamics, and relationship while connecting them to personal history, performance presence, and artistic identity. Class becomes a space for ritual, risk, and revelation. You'll be challenged to create, to problem-solve with the body, and to move beyond the edges of form and expectation. Raja offers tools to expand your stamina as a leader, your dexterity as a mover, and your clarity as a maker.

This is a space for fire-starters: those ready to push their process forward and meet their work with new urgency and imagination.

Dates: Thursday - Saturday | Sept 4th - Sept 7th
Times: 10:00am - 5:00pm
Location: Gibney 280 Broadway
53A Chambers St 2nd Floor, New York, NY 10007

Rate: Early Bird Tuition (by August 21st) $500

Payment plans are available. See below for more details.

Choreographer/Director Raja Feather Kelly is the artistic director of dance-theatre-media company the feath3r theory (founded in 2009).  In 2018 the feath3r theory merged with New Brooklyn Theatre. Raja has been awarded 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's inaugural Harkness Promise Award (2018), the Solange MacArthur Award for New Choreography (2016), and is a three-time Princess Grace Award winner (2017, 2018, 2019). He was born in Fort Hood, Texas and holds a B.A. in Dance and English from Connecticut College.

Raja has been named as the 2022-23 Quinn Martin Director a the University of California San Diego. In 2019–2020 Raja was the Randjelovic/Stryker Resident Commissioned Artist at New York Live Arts and is an inaugural Jerome Hill Artist Fellow. Raja has also been awarded a New York Dance Performance "Bessie" Award, a Bessie Schonberg Fellowship at The Yard, a DanceWEB Scholarship, a New York Foundation for the Arts Choreography Fellowship, a HERE Arts Fellowship, 2018 Creator-in-Residence at Kickstarter, and a Choreography Fellowship at the Center for Ballet and the Arts at NYU. 

 Over the past decade he has created fifteen evening-length works with his company the feath3r theory to critical acclaim. Most recently, UGLY (Black Queer Zoo) at The Bushwick Starr, and We May Never Dance Again® at The Invisible Dog in Brooklyn.  Professionally, Raja has performed with Reggie Wilson/Fist and Heel Performance Group, David Dorfman Dance, Kyle Abraham|Abraham.In.Motion, and zoe | juniper. He has also managed a number of dance companies: Race Dance, Kyle Abraham/Abraham.In.Motion, zoe | juniper, and Reggie Wilson/Fist and Heel Performance Group.

Since 2016, Raja has choreographed extensively for Off-Broadway theatre in New York City, most notably for Signature Theatre, Soho Rep, and New York Theatre Workshop and Playwrights Horizons. Frequent collaborators include: Lileana Blain-Cruz, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, Sarah Benson, and Lila Neugebauer. Other theatre credits include choreography for Skittles Commercial: The Musical (Town Hall), The Chronicles of Cardigan and Khente (SohoRep), Everyday Afroplay (JACK), GURLS (Princeton University, Yale Repertory Theatre), Electric Lucifer (The Kitchen), Lempicka (Williamstown Theatre Festival), The House That Will Not Stand (New York Theatre Workshop), Fireflies (Atlantic Theatre Company), If Pretty Hurts Ugly Must Be a Muhfucka (Playwrights Horizons, nominated for the 2019 Lucille Lortel Award and the 2019 Chita Rivera Award for Outstanding Choreography), The Good Swimmer (BAM), and Faust (Opera Omaha). Most recent work: A Strange Loop (Playwrights Horizons), Fairview (Soho Rep, Berkeley Rep, TFANA and winner of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Drama)

Donterreo Culp is a New York City-based freelance dancer and choreographer with a BFA in Dance Performance and Choreography from East Carolina University and a minor in Business Administration. In 2018 he received the Undergraduate Research and Creative Activity Award, which allowed him to create an evening’s length work and really hone in on his choreographic processes. Donterreo's passion for dance has led him to perform with renowned choreographers such as Kyle Abraham, Alanna Morris, Richard Smith, Jennifer Archibald and many more. He has attended prestigious programs such as Springboard Danse Montreal and the Trinity Laban London Conservatoire of Music and Dance. Donterreo has worked with Nimbus Dance, performing works by Sofia Nappi, Kristen Klein, Dawn Marie Bazemore, and Samuel Pott. He is currently a company member with Gallim Dance under the direction of Andrea Miller. Donterreo is always seeking opportunities to collaborate with artists who are pushing the boundaries of what is possible in dance and strives to create works that are true and authentic.

India Hobbs began training at The Chicago Multi-Cultural Dance Center. In 2013, Hobbs joined The Chicago Academy for the Arts class ’17. During India’s time at The Academy, she performed works set by Brian Brooks, Jonathan Alsberry, and Stephanie Martinez. Following her completion at CAA, Hobbs continued her training at The Boston Conservatory. While at The Conservatory, India performed choreography by Loni Landon, Catherine Coury, Martha Nichols, and Mark Morris. In 2021, Hobbs received her BFA in Contemporary dance. While living in NYC, India has had the fortune to perform in the 2021 Open Call Exhibition at The Shed, work with art collective Haus of PVMNT, led by Christopher Kinsey and Maggy Costales, as well as, KnoName Artist, directed by Roderick George. In 2022, Hobbs joined GALLIM, where she continues to perform a variety of Andrea Miller’s repertoire and teaches Gallim Methods in classes & workshops throughout the city. Hobbs is honored to have performed in theaters like, Chelsea Factory, The Joyce Theatre, amongst many others throughout the East coast.