Author: Sophie Myrtil-McCourty
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BOMB / Sharing the Weight: Deville Cohen and Shamel Pitts
Visual artist Deville Cohen and choreographer Shamel Pitts have both engaged the idea of the “company” or “collective” as models for collaboration that dismantle hierarchy within the creative process. Cohen is the founder and artistic director of Hand to Mouth, a personal project and intimately bound dance company made up of “sentient and inanimate collaborators.”…
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Cool Cleveland / DANCECleveland presents Kyle Abraham: R&B Meets Concert Dance
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…
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Broadway World / RONALD K BROWN / EVIDENCE at The Kennedy Center
Electric. In one word that is how I would describe Ronald K. Brown’s/EVIDENCE’s Kennedy Center performance. There are not many times in my life where I can say that a modern dance performance has left me feeling energized and excited, however, last night’s performance was a fiery exception. Read the full article here.
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MD Theatre Guide / Dance Review: Ronald K. Brown/EVIDENCE at the Kennedy Center Lifts Your Spirits
Watching Ronald K. Brown/EVIDENCE in performance is a spiritual experience. Beauty, power, and strength reach out from the stage to grab hold of an audience. Read the full article here. Photo Credit: Christopher George
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DC METRO / Ronald K. Brown/EVIDENCE takes a soul-infused journey from mercy to grace
Choreographer Ronald K. Brown is the dance world’s preeminent preacher. His works — exquisitely performed Thursday (through Saturday) evening at the Kennedy Center Eisenhower Theater — open the heart and lift the soul. EVIDENCE, the company he founded in 1985 in Brooklyn, gives voice to the cultural legacies and experiences of the African American community. The…
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Fjord Review / Fall + Dance
Thankfully, the A.I.M. troupe followed on the bill, and with the NY premiere of “Our Indigo: If We Were a Love Song” Kyle Abraham’s winning streak continues. This work, set to six Nina Simone tracks, was the polar opposite of the aggressively pandering Streb antics. In fact, much of the dancing was done facing the…
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Pittsburgh Magazine / Pittsburgh Native Kyle Abraham Shows Hometown Love in a Hometown Show
Another way Abraham researched the evening-length work, set to run Nov. 13 at the Byham Theater, was by hosting an event with friends of his late parents. In 2018, as part of a residency with what’s now the August Wilson African American Cultural Center, he gathered friends and family members to talk about “the way…
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New City Stage / Ease, Freedom and Joy: A Preview of An Untitled Love by A.I.M. by Kyle Abraham at the Dance Center of Columbia College
“It’s a celebratory work in a lot of ways,” Kyle Abraham says. “So much of the conversation around the Black experience has been focused on the untimely deaths of Black and brown bodies and the extreme racial injustice we face. I wanted to make a work focused on love, and how we love.” Of course,…
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Frankfurter Allgemeine / A.I.M by Kyle Abraham – Fire in the Air of the Earth
‘Here you can see a triumphant rotation in arabesque, a self-confident balance like that of Balanchine, there the tilting and turning of an upper body like with Merce Cunningham, in the transitions the freedom of a Bill T. Jones. There are people who fall, there are dancers lying on the ground like dead who are being…