Kora Radella Feller

Professional Name: Kora Radella

Kora Radella is an assistant professor of dance at Kenyon College. She has taught at Kenyon College since the fall of 2004. Previously she taught dance techniques (modern, ballet, jazz), improvisation, composition, laboratory theatre training, pedagogy, and dance history at Georgia College and State University, from 2000-2004. She has also taught at Kent State Stark, the University of Georgia, and at numerous studios.

Radella has an extensive repertory of work that has been performed in Belgium, England, The Netherlands, Scotland, Spain, Switzerland and the U.S.A. Radella's honors include the Ineke Sluiter Prize for choreography in Amsterdam, and a fellowship from the Belgian American Educational Foundation to pursue post-M.F.A. research in choreography, in Brussels. Her work has been funded by such organizations as the Anjersfonds, Prins Bernard Fonds and Theater Onderzoek Grant in Amsterdam, Société des Auteurs et Compositeurs Dramatiques in Brussels, the Abteiling Kulturelles des Kantons Basel-Landschaft grant in Basel, Switerzerland, an Illinois Arts Council Grant, and the Ingenuity Festival.

Radella is the artistic director of Double-Edge Dance, a company she co-founded with Kenyon College Assistant Professor of Music, Ross Feller. Radella is also the artistic director of boomerang in collaboration with Kenyon College alum Matty Davis and Adrian Galvin.  Double-Edge Dance has been based in Ohio for the last nine years and has shown work at Cleveland Public Theatre, Playhouse Square in Cleveland, Columbus Dance Theatre, BalletMet, the Ingenuity Festival of Cleveland, Kent State University, Oberlin College, OhioDance Festivals and 100 Grand, Movement Research and Roulette in New York City. Radella’s work with Kenyon College students was performed at Kennedy Center in the National College Dance Festival May 2012. Her work with boomerang has been performed at Dixon place, Center for Performance Research (CPR), Triskelion Arts, Brooklyn Arts Exchange, and the John Ryan Theatre in New York City. Radella has performed in works by Julie Brodie, Felicette Chazerand, Michael Clark, Balinda Craig-Quijada, Bill Evans, Martha Graham, Stephen Koester, Rebecca Nettl-Fiol, Amy Pivar, Susan Rethorst, Ursula Schmid, Olga Tragant, Reneé Wadleigh, and Jude Walton. Radella thrives on intriguing collaborations, such as she has had with Kenyon College art professors Claudia Esslinger and Marcella Hackbardt. Radella often has enjoyed her work as a movement coach for numerous mainstage theater productions at Kenyon College. Her primary teaching interests include contemporary dance technique with dynamic release principles, improvisation, choreography, and movement for actors. Radella has a graduate diploma from the School for New Dance Development (SNDO) in Amsterdam, Netherlands and is a certified yoga teacher (500RYT).