Kelly Strayhorn Theater is a home for creative experimentation, community dialogue, and collective action rooted in the liberation of Black and queer people.
Pittsburgh, PA
Joined September 2009
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😆We're competing for @PGHCityPaper's Best of PGH award in the Best Gallery for Local Artists category. Vote for us today! citypaper.secondstreetapp.co…
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DELICIOUS AND UNEXPECTED! Step into @KSTheater’s most anticipated summer benefit House Party on Sat, July 13. 🧿👾🌃🌆From the neon-noir VIP Reception at 7:00pm to the down and dirty Dance #Party at 9:00pm - Get ready to feel that good-GOOD energy! bit.ly/3IYklBS
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Mita Ghosal's performance Lost on a Loom was a beautiful mix of #dance, storytelling, video imagery, and familial narratives. Were you there? 😉Take a look at this photo album to see Mita's magic on #stage. 📷: Chad Isaiah ow.ly/3eT250S0trz
Freshworks artist Anna King Skeels & collaborator Annie Morehead dance and move through the heart & lungs in their performance unstitch, encountering knots and scars that are obstacles to connection. 🫀🫁
Check out the show through Beth Barbis's photos: ow.ly/HSVu50RApG2
We got some beautiful shots from Mita Ghosal's dress rehearsal on Lost on a Loom to pique your curiosity. 👀🙋♀️ How about joining us on Friday and Saturday, May 17th and 18th, at 7:30 pm? 📷: Matt Huggins Tickets and More Info: bit.ly/4b8xwwu
🗣️ OPEN CALL FOR PERFORMANCES IN PROGRESS 🗣️
Are you an artist in Pittsburgh? Apply for the 24/25 Freshworks Residency!
The residency includes...
📌 $1000 honorarium
📌 $1,500 budget
Learn more at the info session on Zoom May 14, 6-7pm. Register here: ow.ly/h0VW50Rv9Bt
Artist Edisa Weeks joined community members at KST's Alloy Studios for a Welcome Dinner and Artist Talk. Participants also assembled roots out of paper and twine that were used in the 3 RITES: Liberty performance installation.
Check out the photos: ow.ly/FzL250Ru4cS
Dance performance Lost on a Loom examines lost #SouthAsian histories through Indian textiles & fabrics, using #dance, storytelling, video imagery, & familial narratives. 🤸📍See #artist Mita Ghosal at KST's Alloy Studios, Fri & Sat, 5/17 & 5/18 at 7:30pm. bit.ly/4aOT3u1
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Connected like a puppet to objects that have informed the Black experience in America, #artist Edisa Weeks digs into the pathologizing of African Americans & the foundations of liberty in America. @KSTheater on Fri. & Sat., April 26-27 at 7:30pm
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In preparation for next week's DELIRIOUS Dances / Edisa Weeks' 3 RITES: Liberty, check out the reading list Edisa and her team curated.
Get a chance to talk to Edisa at her Welcome Dinner & Artist Talk this Monday, April 22 at 6pm. Get tickets here: ow.ly/tZUl50Rji1G
Swipe right to see how Freshworks artist Anna King Skeels and their friends built their BIG heart! 👀🫀🫁❣️Anna will have their show unstitch on Fri & Sat, May 3-4 at 7:30pm at KST's Alloy Studios. bit.ly/43W8Kgo
#performativesculpture #theater #performingarts #fiberarts
📢 KST's Freshworks #Residency #application is opening up on Monday, May 6. Aimed at Pittsburgh-based #artists, the program provides financial resources, studio space, production staff, lighting and sound design, professional development, and feedback. bit.ly/3xwBVdG
Last Saturday, the Alloy School Showcase brought down the house ❤️🔥 After a season of recreational classes, students showed off their monologues, their dance moves, and their crafty side. See the full album here: ow.ly/RQYF50Rew0u
📷: Randall Coleman
#family #afterschool
In their Freshworks performance Prophecies & Soy Sauce Shots, Caroline Yoo and Davine Byon explored the futures their dreams imagined, the pressures of diaspora storytelling, and the liberation we want in the present.
📸 : 1st photo, Audrey Medrano; 2-4, @ChadIsaiahPhoto
Create, take risks, and dance! During the week leading up to DELIRIOUS Dances/ Edisa Weeks' performance 3 RITES: Liberty, there will be a #dance #workshop, Precision & Abandonment, on Wed, April 24, 9:00am - 10:15am. Co-presented with PearlArts. #theater bit.ly/3U5y4gh
This video is going to give you a glimpse of DELIRIOUS Dances/ Edisa Weeks' #performance 3 RITES: Liberty. vimeo.com/428561696?ref=tw-s… 🙌🔗🎫Don't forget to get your tickets for Friday & Saturday, April 26 - 27: bit.ly/3Vzw5Sz #theater #blackartist #africanamericanhistory
Celebrate the end of the ten-week Alloy School journey! Our Showcase and Let’s Move! Family Dance Party is this Sat., April 6, 10am-12pm. 🎉 bit.ly/3VMnSec #pittsburgh #thingstodo #familyfriendly #kids #dance
👀 #Artists Caroline Yoo and Davine Byon are preparing for their work in progress, Prophecies & Soy Sauce Shots, which will be shown this Friday and Saturday, April 5 - 6, at 7:30pm. 🌾Come and support them at KST’s Alloy Studios! bit.ly/3SAEfs9 #theater #aapi
"How do I hear what my community is telling me & then make that come to fruition through art?" reflects artist Caroline Yoo interviewed by @BOOMConcepts. ow.ly/4ptG50R3qTP
See Caroline in Prophecies & Soy Sauce Shots 4/5 & 4/6, 7:30pm. Tickets here: ow.ly/kSlF50R3qTQ
FROM OUR FRIENDS: On Saturday 3/30 at 2pm, Conservatory of Performing Arts students are holding a sensory-friendly variety show called ARTfully UPlifting @PlayhousePGH. This show brings in themes of hope, acceptance, & inclusion.
More info & tickets here: ow.ly/v7FR50R2iay
