DANCECleveland brings Kyle Abraham’s dance company, A.I.M by Kyle Abraham, to Playhouse Square this weekend for one performance of his latest evening-length work, An Untitled Love. As the title suggests, this is a dance about love: romantic love, love within the Black community, and love of music, specifically the R&B music of Grammy winner D’Angelo.
Who is Kyle Abraham? Cleveland dance audiences may remember Abraham performing his own choreography with ballet maverick Wendy Whelan in Restless Creature at the Ohio Theatre in 2015. (See our CoolCleveland review.) Since then, Abraham’s choreography and his dancers have been much in demand and frequently seen in prestigious settings. They were in NYC’s Fall for Dance this year; they were in In conversation with Merce, produced in collaboration with the Baryshnikov Arts Center; and Abraham choreographed for NYC Ballet’s recent digital season. This coming February Brooklyn Academy of Music will present the New York premiere of Abraham’s An Untitled Love. But of course, you could see it here in Cleveland months before that.
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