Raja Feather Kelly | the feath3r theory and The Invisible Dog Present
PRIDE MUSIC VIDEO FESTIVAL
The effort of the PRIDE MUSIC VIDEO FESTIVAL is to put money in artists hands, to respect the labor of their work, engage with a wide audience online, and celebrate queer creativity!
All June long, featuring LGBTQIAA artists from all over, 10 world premiere music videos celebrating Pride. Each weekend in June we will release new music videos along with short interviews between Raja Feather Kelly and the artist.
PRIDE is actually NOT a parade, it is NOT a circuit party, and it AIN’T a Carly Rae Jepsen or Beyoncé secret release. PRIDE is a celebration of the culture that we make and put out into the world so that the world can celebrate us. US = The LESBIAN, GAY, BI-SEXUAL, TRANS, QUEER, QUESTIONING, INTERSEX, ASEXUAL, AND our ALLIES. So what I am getting at is that you can’t CANCEL Pride. You CAN Cancel Lana Del Rey. You cannot cancel PRIDE.
Featured Artists
2Fik (@2fikornot2fik)
Jack Murphy (@johnawa74)
Kevin Shotwell (@kevinshots)
Becca Blackwell (@theirishhorse)
Brian Gonzalez (@taxiplasm)
Garret Allen (@garrettallenn)
Una Aya Osato (@una_osato)
x (@tittyglow.jpeg)
Peter Clough (@cloughabunga)
Randy Ford (@randybaby11)
Samantha Nye (@samantha_nye_studio) & Emily Wells (@emilywellsmusic)
Sponsors
The Invisible Dog Art Center
Team Diva Real Estate
Pride Music Video Festival began with a $5,000 commission meant to put money directly into the hands of Artists. This first 10 each received $500. With more donations we can and will include more artist! Please make your donation below. Your donation is tax-deductible.
About Raja Feather Kelly
Raja Feather Kelly is a choreographer, director, and the artistic director of the feath3r theory. A three-time winner of the Princess Grace Award, Raja is the 2019–2020 Randjelović/Stryker Resident Commissioned Artist at New York Live Arts, a Creative Associate at The Juilliard School, an inaugural Jerome Hill Artist Fellow, a 2019 Creative Capital award recipient, and a resident artist at HERE Arts Center and the Artist Laureate at The Invisible Dog since 2013. Over the past decade, Kelly 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. He was nominated for the 2019 and 2020 Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Choreography. His choreography has also garnered a 2018 Breakout Award from the Stage Directors and Choreographers Foundation, and a 2020 Outer Critics Circle Award. Raja was Dance Magazine's inaugural Harkness Promise Award (2018) and cover star February 2020. Raja is the choreographer for the 2019 Pulizter Prize winning Drama FAIRVIEW, written by Jackie Sibblies-Drury; directed by Sarah Benson and the 2010 Pulitzer Prize winning Musical A STRANGE LOOP, Written by Michael R. Jackson; directed by Stephen Brackett. Frequent collaborators include: Lileana Blain-Cruz, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, and Sarah Benson. He was born in Fort Hood, Texas and holds a B.A. in Dance and English from Connecticut College.