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Kyle Abraham Debuts New Dance Piece in Boston | The Bay State Banner
‘“I started thinking about these ideas around rebirth and reincarnation and folklore and mythology and how I could explore Black futurism in ways that connected with those themes,” says Abraham. A lover of science fiction who grew up on Marvel comics, Abraham leaned into the idea of regeneration rather than the more traditional death motif.’…
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Miami Light Project Presents Shamel Pitts and ‘Touch of Red’ | Miamiartzine
‘“I initially had such adverse reactions to the idea of boxing. Watching it on TV, I just couldn’t see the entertainment value of it. So instead of looking away, I started to look towards it. And when I did that, there were moments, I call them blurred moments, that I wasn’t sure if the two…
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Kyle Abraham’s A.I.M Celebrates Community and Connection | The Dance Journal
‘“An Untitled Love” satisfies on many levels. The piece is at times fun and flirtatious and at others serious and profound. Abraham’s choreography picks up on the rhythms of conversation and combines them with the rhythms of dance. A.I.M’s wonderful dancers capture the expressive quality of the movement and demonstrate that dancing is a potent…
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Touch of RED Choreographs Empowerment Achieved Through “Softness” | Miami New Times
‘”With Touch of RED, I tried to create a space where we as Black men — and me as a Black queer man — get to be soft and have that be met with qualities of empowerment,” he says. “I’ve always felt like a bit of an outlier with my sensitivity, softness, and vulnerability. No…
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Lighting up the dark: Shamel Pitts and Tribe Residency at The Light Box | Miami Light Project
‘Boxing is a major inspiration for Touch of RED. Shamel went from being confounded by the violent sport’s appeal, to exploring it as a metaphor for the layered, often unacknowledged connections between two Black men. In this case, two gay Black men. “Things I don’t understand I try to go further towards,” he says. “What…
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Congratulations to Shamel Pitts | TRIBE for receiving an NDP Production Grant for their new work, ‘Touch of RED’
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In Promising Fall Dance Trend, Real-Life Figures Inspire the Lineup | The Washington Post
‘As founder and director of Tribe, a multidisciplinary arts collective, Pitts has created a trilogy of works built on Gaga, which is essentially a way of developing one’s unique way of moving. “Black Hole” is the third installment of the trilogy. Pitts describes it as a performance-art odyssey that includes movement, lighting, video projections, cinematography…
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A Requiem Rocks the Fundament
Kyle Abraham and Jlin shake up Mozart’s mass | The Brooklyn Rail ‘All of A.I.M’s dancers bring their own gifts. Martell Ruffin performs an exceptional, virtuosic solo, caroming from step to gesture to expression with a mercurial swiftness.’ Read the full article here.
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A House Party Reimagined in Luscious (and Hilarious) Choreography | The Telegraph
‘Combining RnB, soul, funk, jazz and Latin styles, the score is attuned to a choreography that shifts between high-energy hip hop moves, dance of gorgeous, balletic precision, and movement that’s so laidback it’s almost hypnotic.’ Read the full article here.
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‘There’s a Lot of Laughter, a Lot of Joy’: Kyle Abraham on the Family Parties That Inspired His New Dance Show | The Guardian
”You know, I’ve made so many works that look at the injustice that we face as a people, and I really wanted to make something much more celebratory,” he says. The music the audience hears in the theatre before the show will be his parents’ “grown-folks music” from back in the day: Luther Vandross, Anita…