The Arts are meant to disturb and comfort, to touch and teach, and to make the indescribable understandable.
The Artist
Robert Kelley has recieved his Associates of Arts in Dance Performance from Valencia College in Orlando, Florida and is currently completing the requirements for his Bachelor of Fine Arts in Dance Performance with a concentration in Modern Dance at the University of South Florida in Tampa, Florida.
He has had the opportunity to work and perform the works of many renowned national and international artist including Robert Moses, Alonzo King, Doug Gillespie, Ohad Naharin, Xiao Xiangrong, and many others.
His international performances include dancing by invitation in the International COCO Festsival in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad as well as participating in the International Creative Dance Seminar in Beijing, China.
He has presented his own choreography in various venue. Debut works "Continuum" (July 2013) and "People: The Reason Why?" (July 2014) premeired at Valencia College. Later work, "Made In Chaos" made its debut at The University of South Florida. Mr. Kelley has also been a part of choregraphic collaborative efforts including the creation and performance of "Fragmented Memories" (November 2013) with Florida-based artist, Katrina Soricelli and "Let's Call It" (November 2014) along with Minnasota-based artst, Emily Hansel and with Ms. Soricelli. Both projects were part of Dance For Food, put on by Artist for Cause.
Mr. Kelley will graduate with his Bachelors of Fine Arts in Dance Performance in May 2016
