Open Rehearsal With Raja Feather Kelly

On Thursday, May 25, at 5 p.m., The Church in Sag Harbor will host an open rehearsal with choreographer-in-residence Raja Feather Kelly. Come witness the development of a new dance theater piece by choreographer/director Kelly and the feath3r theory. As part of his residency, Kelly invites the community to observe the choreographic process as he continues to develop movement and text relating to the work. The work entitle “Death, Loneliness, and the Absolute Future of the Multiverse, or How to Cover the Sun With Mud” is a dance theater documentary about the Great American Eclipse — a total eclipse of the sun that will result in three minutes and 24 seconds of total darkness as the moon’s shadow traces the path of totality on April 8, 2024.

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 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.

As a collaboration of dancers, actors, filmmakers, musicians, photographers, and designers, the mission of feath3r theory is to broaden the space for unheard voices and repressed histories, to bring into the theatre those sometimes left out, and to use theater to provoke much-needed public conversations.

Raja Feather Kelly has been scheduled as part of The Church’s “Mixed Media” residency period of March to May. Tickets for the May 25 event are $10 (free for members with RSVP). View the full schedule and line-up of artists-in-residence planned for 2023 at thechurchsagharbor.org. The Church is at 48 Madison Street, Sag Harbor.