‘A dancer in Abraham’s company might be moving to a decades-old blues song, or to a classical piece, or to a swaggering hip-hop beat. Since founding the company in 2006, Abraham has freely mixed the beauty of dance with the violence that African Americans seem to face every day; in 2015’s Pavement, the dancers move from breakdance-inspired popping and locking to gorgeously synchronized ensemble movement to a terrifying moment of cacophony and fear when gunshots ring out. It’s a striking, fiercely modern, almost avant-garde take on traditional dance, and it can take some audiences by surprise.’
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