JOHN KELLY is an Experimental Theatre Artist who creates both solo and
ensemble works, which incorporate choreography, visual design, film and
video, and song. As a choreographer and director he has received 2
BESSIE (New York Dance and Performance) Awards, 2 OBIE Awards, the
American Choreographer Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the first Oscar
Rubenhausen Fellowship (through the Greenwall Foundation), 2
Fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts, and 5
consecutive Choreographer Fellowships from the National Endowment for
the Arts. He is also the recipient of a 2001 CalArts/ Alpert Award in Dance.
As a singer Mr. Kelly has studied with Peter Elkus at the Academia
Musicale Ottorino Respighi in Assisi, Italy. He has performed three
solo vocal recitals at Weill Recital Hall, Carnegie Hall, and was a
featured vocalist with the San Francisco Symphony's Cultural Maverick
Series. PAVED PARADISE, his homage to Joni Mitchell, was the opening
act for Natalie Merchant's recent OPHELIA tour. This spring he will
make a CD recording, to be produced by Hal Willner.
As a Director of Opera he directed a critically acclaimed production of
Matthew Locke's Baroque Masque CUPID AND DEATH at Opera at the Academy
in 1993. In 1998 he Directed THE NAME ON THE TIP OF THE TONGUE, a
chamber opera for the Glej Theatre of Ljubljana, Slovenia. MOONDRUNK,
a collaboration with the chamber group Da Camera, premiered at the New
Victory Theatre, NY, as part of Lincoln Centerís 1999 Great Performers:
New Visions series.
Last year he created the role of Bartell D'Arcy in the Broadway
production of James Joyce's THE DEAD at the Belasco Theatre.
At Dance Theater Workshop in the fall of 2002, John Kelly & Company
will present an ensemble work, FIND MY WAY HOME, a re-telling of the
classic Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice, set in the Great Depression.
JOHN KELLY, a visual autobiography, will be published in the fall of
2001 by 2wice Arts Foundation, and distributed by Apeture.
www.johnkellyco.org will be launched in May.
