THE COCOON RESIDENCY

 Bobcat Ranf is a multi-disciplinary artist and movement educator originally from Montana whose practice spans dance, choreography, acting, writing, storytelling, and podcasting.
     For over a decade, Bobcat performed his own work and danced for numerous choreographers in New York City, including long-term collaborations with Raja Feather Kelly’s the feath3r theory. In 2017, he was a Brooklyn Arts Exchange Upstart artist-in-residence, and in 2019, he joined the 54th cohort of the esteemed New York Live Arts Fresh Tracks Artists. In 2020, his work was selected for Movement Research at Judson Church. His first evening-length work, he rip his shirt off completely, was selected for ANTfest, Ars Nova’s renowned annual theater festival, in 2021. He has also performed internationally in Taiwan, Germany, and Canada.

     He holds a B.F.A. in Choreography and Performance from the University of Montana and attended the Royal Winnipeg Ballet School on scholarship from 2006-2008. As a movement educator he integrates his knowledge as a 500-hour Registered Yoga Teacher and years of experience teaching Pilates and working in clinical rehabilitation. Now based in Albuquerque, NM he balances his artistic practice with life as a muggle, helping small businesses meet their HR goals.
     His upcoming podcast, Bobcat’s MAD Thoughts, is a narrative-driven blend of surreal essays, sketches, and monologues unpacking the absurd realities of being just another triggered, oat milk-loving, avocado toast-eating, 30-something homosexual millennial navigating the late stage capitalistic hellscape and chasing every new fad in desperate search of validation.

Learn more: www.thesocietyoflaughter.com