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Fist & Heel Performance Group Blend Song, Dance, Ritual, Ceremony | Artzenstuff
‘Wilson showed us the beauty of embodiment and invited us to partake of beautiful, powerful dance, and a moment of instant village and collective effervescence.’ Read the full article here
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Fun Turns to Darkness in Kyle Abraham’s an Untitled Love — Review | Financial Times
‘…it works beautifully, because Abraham’s physical vocabulary is so fluent and varied — from airy, balletic turns to groovy floorwork — that it can mimic the ebb and flow of party conversations.’ Read the full article here.
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Review: Ronald K. Brown / EVIDENCE Moves in Everyway | Boston Globe
‘The dancers bust loose, now not just exploring space but luxuriating in it, claiming it, claiming their freedom, their equality. “Amen” to that.’ Read the full article here.
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Spoleto Review: Wilson’s ‘POWER’ is Full of Spirit | The Post and Courier
‘As the piece came to an end, there was a sense of a shared experience where a group’s power was strengthened by its numbers, the common beliefs of its members and their surrender to something greater than themselves. Perhaps a utopian view far from our world today, but one where simplicity and freedom were guiding…
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PREVIEW: Reggie Wilson/Fist and Heel Performance Group Harness the ‘POWER’ of Black Shakers | Charleston City Paper
‘POWER is a “kaleidoscopic set of possibilities” of what Black Shaker life and worship might have been.“Maybe they would have changed ‘Tis a Gift to Be Simple’ to sound like this, maybe they would have changed this gesture and this song or this marching to look like this because they are human beings,” he said,…
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Spoleto Question-and-Artist: Brooklyn Choreographer Reggie Wilson and Black Shakers | The Post and Courier
‘What the piece does is imagine what that worship could have looked like. So it’s not a narrative about Black women and spirituality, but it’s not not about that. It’s not trying to demonstrate to you, “Here’s a Black woman and this is how she worshipped and this is her story.” It’s not narrative in any way,…
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thINKing DANCE | The Magical Realism in TRIBE’s Black Hole
‘Black Hole is a work of magical realism. Where was this land? Where did they come from? What path were they on? Was this source an entity of goodness or harm? This piece was riddled with questions, but the good kind you feel being answered viscerally in front of you while allowing yourself not to…
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Boston Globe | Kyle Abraham and A.I.M Soldier On at the Ica
‘Dancing in a loose unison with Kirk and with one another, they sow, they swing baseball bats, they put one hand to the heart and the other to the head. The gestural arm movements suggest ritual, imprecation, oppression.’ Read the full article here.
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Broadway World | BWW Review: AN UNTITLED LOVE —A.I.M BY KYLE ABRAHAM at Kennedy Center
‘The vast array of the solos, couplings and larger group numbers in the production were performed by an ensemble of dancers that possessed an inexhaustible fount of energy and stamina. A heightened sense of physicality replete with graceful, lithe-limbed arm/wrist movements, leaps and turns was sustained throughout.’ Read the full article here.
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Houston Chronicle | A.I.M Performance to Celebrate the Black Community Through Dance
“To make a work experiential, I want people to just take it in,” Abraham says, reluctant to reveal too much about the selected tracks that have had a defining presence in his life since college when the soulful singer-songwriter released his debut studio album, “Brown Sugar.” “This work is really all things. There are moments…