This is the third and concluding part of the pop queer empathy trilogy UGLY, which will be first performed at ImPulsTanz. Raja Feather Kelly, choreographer, dancer and director of the company the feath3r theory is a huge fan of Andy Warhol and says about his own work: “I use performance and exhibition as means to promote empathy. My practice identifies opportunities where popular culture and human desire overlap, and amplifies them.” In BLUE, Kelly wants to take the exclusion (Black Queer Zoo) and the alienation (Hysteria) of African American subjectivity to a zone of empathy, i.e. ‘home’ (http://thefeath3rtheory.com)

Concept, Direction, and Performance by Raja Feather Kelly

Collaborators: Tuce Yasak (Lighting Design), Laura Snow (Video and Projection), You-Shin Chen (Set Design), Brandi Holt (Costume Design, Raja Feather Kelly (Music), David Baldwin and Emily Wells (Original Compositions), Christoph Mateka (Sound Mix)

BLUE was commissioned by the Vienna International Dance Festival, Impulstanz as a part of their 2021 Season.