Tag: A.I.M BY KYLE ABRAHAM

‘This is a cream-of-the-crop dance performance, and should not be missed. — a fantastic repertory program presented by a fantastic dance company of our era, A.I.M by Kyle Abraham.’ Read the full article here.

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‘Abraham excels at so many aspects of choreography, among them instilling traditional movement with the gestural language of Black life and street dance or showing the subtle difference between slow motion and stillness. But what is most admirable, at least for me, is the way he is able to lean into patience. He takes his…

Kyle Abraham is an acclaimed choreographer and company director who is the recipient of many awards, including a Doris Duke Performing Artist Award and a MacArthur Fellowship. In this podcast, he talks about growing up in Pittsburgh in a home that encouraged music and art, his life-changing experience when he first saw professional dance at the…

‘With his inimitable vocabulary of postmodern abstract moves — or, as he calls it, “gumbo style,” which blends Black dance with classical ballet techniques — Kyle Abraham, 45, has been making evocative works for decades. Since founding his New York-based troupe, A.I.M by Kyle Abraham, in 2006, he’s also racked up some of the arts’ most prestigious…

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‘Love is treated as a communal infrastructure. There were multiple instances where the dancers would fall down and look like they were severely hurt or dead only to be brought back by the love of the community.’ Read the full article here.

‘“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.’…