Author: Sophie Myrtil-McCourty
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Jacob’s Pillow Virtual Festival Presents Bereishit Dance Company
Free and premiering Thursday, August 13 at 7pm EST and available for viewing until 11.59pm on Saturday, August 15 – RSVP at https://www.jacobspillow.org/events/bereishit-dance-company-2020/
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Document Journal/Interview: ‘Choreographer Kyle Abraham, actor Jeremy Pope, and artist Louis Fratino on what it means to be a man today’
‘No performance should look and feel the exact same way every time because part of the performance comes from the audience, and the audience is different every night. A moment that might have seemed comedic to one audience may seem offensive to another, or maybe cerebral to a different group. So you can’t perform anticipating…
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Jacob’s Pillow Virtual Festival to present Bereishit Dance Company
Premiere on Wednesday, August 13 at 7pm EST and available for viewing until Saturday, August 15 (midnight EST). ‘This Virtual Festival stream features the rigorous male duet BOW_CONTROL, inspired by the tradition of archery and explores the boundaries of sports and dance, while the intensely physical work Balance and Imbalance features brilliant and fun interplay…
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Dance Review: ‘Reggie Wilson/Fist and Heel Performance Group — Powerful Gifts’
‘I was swept away by the force of the rhythms and the fervent dancing.’ Read the full review here.
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Arts Fuse: ‘Dance Review: Korea’s Bereishit Dance Company — Addressing Violence, Beautifully’
‘These stand-offs evolved into a succession of beautiful partnering sequences that were completed with enormous precision and speed. The dancers made their challenging movements look effortless: bodies flipped over the backs of other bodies, men were tossed and caught after flying unaided through the air. The performers’ strength and grace was amazing.’ ‘The ensemble work…
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Critical Dance review: ‘Bereishit Dance Company: Judo; Balance & Imbalance’
‘Powerful dancing built to the sound of the drumbeats. The dancers’ bodies hypnotically shook like teens at a rock concert. Bereishit Dance Company’s dancers are impressive as both athletes and artists.’ Read the full review here.
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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…
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San Diego Story review: ‘A.I.M Offers a Bonus: A Performance by Kyle Abraham’
There’s plenty of assertiveness in the high-octane “Drive”—and plenty of sound. To urgent percussion and an insistent voice repeating, “Where’s your drive?” (Theo Parrish’s “Drive”), eight dancers scramble with powerhouse leg swings, sharp isolations, slashing arms. One minute, they’re doing unison pirouettes, the next owning the stage in dance-battle solos.’ Read the full review here.