Tag: A.I.M BY KYLE ABRAHAM

‘“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.’…

‘“An Untitled Love” satisfies on many levels. The piece is at times fun and flirtatious and at others serious and profound. Abraham’s choreography picks up on the rhythms of conversation and combines them with the rhythms of dance. A.I.M’s wonderful dancers capture the expressive quality of the movement and demonstrate that dancing is a potent…

Kyle Abraham and Jlin shake up Mozart’s mass | The Brooklyn Rail ‘All of A.I.M’s dancers bring their own gifts. Martell Ruffin performs an exceptional, virtuosic solo, caroming from step to gesture to expression with a mercurial swiftness.’ Read the full article here.

‘Combining RnB, soul, funk, jazz and Latin styles, the score is attuned to a choreography that shifts between high-energy hip hop moves, dance of gorgeous, balletic precision, and movement that’s so laidback it’s almost hypnotic.’ Read the full article here.

”You know, I’ve made so many works that look at the injustice that we face as a people, and I really wanted to make something much more celebratory,” he says. The music the audience hears in the theatre before the show will be his parents’ “grown-folks music” from back in the day: Luther Vandross, Anita…

‘Consider Mozart’s Requiem in D Minor, unfinished by the composer at the time of his death in 1791, as a deliberate incomplete sentence, a poetic invitation open to reinterpretation over the ensuing 231 years. Its latest evolution takes shape in the hands of choreographer Kyle Abraham, whose transformative evening-length work, Requiem: Fire in the Air…

‘Throughout the dance, couples of all varieties pair off in romantic duets reminiscent of social dances—rhumba, merengue, cha cha, salsa—but with more smooth, supple spins and graceful glides that sweep the dancers across the stage. There are no sharp edges in these dances, and while the movement looks relaxed, the dancers are uniformly precise and…

‘Three themes make up the programming of Lincoln Center’s Summer for the City: “Rejoice,” “Reclaim,” and “Remember,” the latter of which features Mozart’s Requiem, as well as the New York premiere of a transformation of Mozart’s work by choreographer Kyle Abraham, his company—A.I.M by Kyle Abraham—and electronic composer Jlin. The new piece, Requiem: Fire in…

‘Among other things, the piece is a love letter to the Pittsburgh of Abraham’s youth (props include a big cordless phone and a cootie-catcher fortune teller). The evening unwraps slowly in a flowing sequence of encounters – tentative, teasing, edgy and sexy – as the dancers circle and entwine. They highlight, as he said in…

‘Guests of the 16th. Biennale Danza, visionary choreographer Kyle Abraham with his company A.I.M. together with electronic music producer/composer Jlin present Requiem: Fire in the Air of the Earth, which transforms Mozart’s D minor score into an electronic work evoking ritual and rebirth.’ Read the full article here.