‘For his latest work, titled Dearest Home, which premiered on May 16 in San Francisco, Kyle Abraham told us that he drew on his personal experiences of love and loss, and on the experiences of LGBT seniors and teens who participated in workshops led by Abraham during the two-year creative process. The audience of about 150, gathered in the round in the studio at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts known as the Forum, found themselves close enough to the dancers to note the blister pads on their toes, the sweat on their brows, and the tears in their eyes. It was a close to ideal setting for this wrenching, sometimes joyful, often thrilling, journey through the thickets of intimacy.’
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