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New York Times | Review: Kyle Abraham’s Theatrical Love Letter to Social Dance
“An Untitled Love” beautifully presents dance as interpersonal communication. It’s a theatrical love letter to social dance. Read the full article here.
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CVNC | CONTRA-TIEMPO Brings Joy to a Young Audience with joyUS justUS
This sixty-minute program retells stories of community members through dance. People who have been mistakenly referred to through the lens of “deficit-base” narratives come alive as artists, activists, and teachers. The dances, spoken word, music, percussion, and costumes jolted me into submission – to watch, clap and enjoy. Oh, and yes, to dance. Read the…
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The Undefeated | Choreographer Kyle Abraham’s New Work Centers on Black Love and the Music of D’Angelo
Abraham describes An Untitled Love as “the purest Kyle Abraham dance there has ever been,” meaning most of the dance steps originated in his body. “I’m so familiar with the music of D’Angelo that it really was me living out my biggest fantasy, just living this music that I love so much.” Embodying that feeling, Abraham has…
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New York Times | ‘A Black Love Sitcom Dance’: Kyle Abraham’s D’Angelo Moves
In his evening-length work coming to BAM, Abraham wanted to focus on celebration and joy in Black culture, “the way we love and love on each other.” Set to songs by D’Angelo — Abraham calls himself a Day 1 D’Angelo fan — the show emerged from a desire not to ignore painful realities, he said,…
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The Brooklyn Rail | How to Commune Reggie Wilson Reimagines a Black Shaker History in Power at Bam.
It seems impossible to overstate the impact of experiencing such a collective spirit in motion after two years of a pandemic that has caused us to still be afraid of close unguarded proximity with one another. But for 70 minutes, all those fears receded in the wake of something bigger, boundless, and yes, more powerful.…
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Santa Barbara Independent | Review | A.I.M by Kyle Abraham, ‘An Untitled Love’ Set to D’Angelo’s Neo-Soul in Santa Barbara
An Untitled Love, the hour-long work they showed, shook the delighted audience to their emotional foundations with a daring, heartfelt, and brilliantly idiomatic celebration of love, suffering, yearning, and bliss. Read the full article here
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The San Diego Union-Tribune | In ‘An Untitled Love,’ Kyle Abraham and A.I.M Create a Dance Show Around the Music of D’Angelo
Choreographer Kyle Abraham has described his dance-making as a “kitchen sink” of influences: a potent mix of classical ballet’s grace and precision, the swagger and syncopation seen in jazz and the fierce, freestyle athleticism of hip-hop. Read the full article here.
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New York Times | Reggie Wilson Explores the Power of Moving Together
” How do you bring yourself in relationship to others? By being fully yourself. And it’s not about minimizing or squishing yourself, but about tailoring or customizing it to be able to exist next to another. “ Read the full article here.
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