Home of the artistic projects by Bobcat Ranf, a dancer, choreographer, storyteller, writer, podcaster, and movement educator based in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
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Sensitive Content is an interactive dance and media work exploring how algorithms, audience participation, and the demand for authenticity reshape identity and performance. Created with Sarah Bennett-Davidson as part of the 2026 New Mexico Dance Hackathon, the work combines live performance, AI-generated media, and audience response to blur the line between being human and performing humanity. This video was filmed with a 360° camera and can be explored from any angle, with a VR headset offering the most immersive viewing experience.
Therapy is an original dance-play that unleashes a rapid-fire collage of vaudevillian vignettes, surreal sketches, and unraveling realities. this genre-bending dance-theatre romp hurtles through popular culture, spiraling toward one unruly thought: maybe we’ve all lost our f*cking minds.
This trailer offers a rare behind-the-scenes look at a process in process, featuring interviews with a cast member and the creator as they navigate the making of a new theatrical event.
Artist statement
Exhaustion ruptures choreography. Animal instinct tears through constructed personas. Beneath theatricality and spectacle is a search for ecstatic honesty. Absurdity becomes moral satire. The body betrays us back into our humanity.
Exhaustion ruptures choreography. Animal instinct tears through constructed personas. Beneath theatricality and spectacle is a search for ecstatic honesty. Absurdity becomes moral satire. The body betrays us back into our humanity.
About
Bobcat Ranf (formerly Collin Kelly) is a multidisciplinary artist and movement educator from Montana whose practice spans dance, choreography, acting, writing, and storytelling. He attended the Royal Winnipeg Ballet School on scholarship from 2006–2008 before earning a BFA in Choreography and Performance from the University of Montana. He later spent more than a decade in New York City, performing and making work across contemporary dance, experimental theater, and devised performance, including international performances in Taiwan, Germany, and Canada.
His choreography has been presented by New York Live Arts, Barnard College, Movement Research at Judson Church, Brooklyn Arts Exchange, and Triskelion Arts, among others. In 2018, he was selected as a BAX Upstart Artist; in 2019, as a New York Live Arts Fresh Tracks Artist; and in 2021, his first evening-length work, he rip his shirt off completely, was selected for Ars Nova’s ANT Fest. As a performer, Ranf worked extensively with choreographer Raja Feather Kelly through a long-term collaboration with his company, the feath3r theory.
Ranf’s performances draw from lived experiences in the dance world, corporate America, the nonprofit industrial complex, queer culture, and the wellness industry, using humor, autobiography, and absurdity to examine the systems and social performances that shape contemporary life.
Recent works include the dance-play Therapy, developed through residencies at Barnard College’s Movement Lab and Studio Sway’s The Cocoon Residency, and Sensitive Content, created in collaboration with interdisciplinary media artist Sarah Bennett-Davidson for the 2026 New Mexico Dance Hackathon.
Alongside his artistic practice, Ranf is a 500-hour Registered Yoga Teacher and Pilates instructor with years of experience in movement education and clinical rehabilitation. He is currently based in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
His upcoming podcast, Bobcat’s MAD Thoughts, is a narrative-driven blend of surreal essays, sketches, and monologues satirizing millennial burnout and the absurdities of late-stage capitalism.
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Selected Works (show in no particular order)
he screamed so loud and spit all over (2017)
ah, ah and then he poured the beer all over (2018)
we all ran around the backyard (2020)
he rip his shirt off completely (2021)
Therapy (2022)
Special Thanks To:
For Therapy
• Alex Giroux — collaborator & performer
For he rip his shirt off completely
• CJ Ferroni — cinematography
• Laura Snow & CJ Ferroni — editing
• Tuce Yasak — lighting
Music:
Photos by Maria Baranova
Podcast
MAD Thoughts is an aural performance of narrated stories, essays, and monologues satirizing and spotlighting the absurd realities of thriving and surviving as just another constantly triggered, sensitive snowflake, entitled 30-something homosexual millennial. Stumbling through the pseudo-spiritual, capitalistic American Dream— all while sipping oat milk lattes, eating avocado toast, manifesting with intention, practicing downward dogs, and chasing every new fad in desperate search of validation.
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