Born in rural Pennsylvania, Ryan Kelly performs and creates performance-based work at the crossroads of disciplines.  Trained in classical dance and a member of New York City Ballet from 1998 to 2002, Ryan has since explored contemporary dance/performance with choreographers/directors in New York and abroad, performing with Karole Armitage, Zvi Gotheiner, Ben Munisteri, and Todd Williams in New York and with Sasha Waltz in Berlin.  His most enduring collaboration has been with Brennan Gerard, with whom he founded Moving Theater in 2002.  Together they have created and performed nearly a dozen works, including How Culafroy Became Divine (2005) at Jacob’s Pillow, Without (2006) at the Guggenheim Museum and Dance New Amsterdam, The Sixty Project (2006) at La Générale, L’Atelier de Paris, and Les Voutes, in Paris, and EFA Gallery in New York, and IT’S MY PARTY at the Greenwich Music Festival (2007.)  Impermanent Collection marks their first collaboration in film.  Ryan was a guest student at the School for New Dance Development in Amsterdam in 2006.  He continues working toward a degree in Literary Studies at Fordham University.  He currently lives in New York.