Kelly Whalen

Kelly Whalen

Senior Video Producer

Kelly Whalen is a filmmaker and educator who directs and produces social justice documentaries and award-winning arts and culture web series. She is the creator of KQED Arts’ three-time Webby Award-winning YouTube series If Cities Could Dance, featuring dancers across the country representing their cities’ signature moves, and the director of When the Waters Get Deep, a documentary about Oakland-based artists SOL Development and their work toward healing their communities’ trauma from gun violence.

By Kelly Whalen

Five Dance Films to Celebrate Latinx Heritage Month

Follow a Capoeirista’s Journey From the Bay Area to Brazil

Indigenous Enterprise Brings Powwow Dancing to the World Stage

In Tucson, Latinx Dancers Honor Migrant Stories From the Borderlands

Meet Women Drummers Keeping the Japanese Art of Taiko Strong

Black Ice Skating Legends Inspire Today’s Olympic Hopefuls

These Oakland Artists Transformed their Greatest Pain into Purpose

How Hip-Hop Dance Legend Rennie Harris Came to Pioneer Street Dance Theater

Meet Philadelphia’s House Dancers Preserving the Soul of the Scene

How Hawaiian Culture Thrives through the Timeless Poetry of Hula

Dear Dancer: A Video Chain Letter to Move You

With Cotton and Reclaimed Symbols, Christopher Martin Tells a Story of Race in America

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