Appalachian Connections: ‘A.I.M Hits the Mark with App State Students’

“Kyle is a black man,” says A.I.M dancer Catherine Ellis Kirk. “He speaks to and for a community.”

Kirk, now in her eighth year with the company, was speaking with nearly 20 members of App State’s Black Student Association about MacArthur ‘Genius’ Grant award winner Kyle Abraham, a Pittsburgh-born choreographer whose acclaimed dance company A.I.M (Abraham-in-Motion) melds modern, classical, street, and hip-hop movement to create pieces that tackle issues of race, violence, cultural appropriation, love of self and love of others, and loss. Yes, Abraham speaks to and for a community in a voice the world needs to hear, whether they want to admit it or not.

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