Tag: A.I.M BY KYLE ABRAHAM

Always there was a sense of spontaneity and personal touches verging on impassioned improvisation. Sudden pauses from such strenuous athleticism to stillness, sometimes followed by slow-motion sequences, drew attention to amazing individual capacities and unexpected, elegant beauty, while also having the effect of feeling as though we are viewing the dance through the veil of…

‘ Le chorégraphe new-yorkais nous avait conquis début juin au Théâtre des Abbesses avec An Untitled Love, un portrait amoureux d’aujourd’hui porté avec brio par sa compagnie A.I. M. Ce sont ces mêmes danseuses et danseurs que l’on retrouve à Marseille dans Requiem: Fire in the Air of the Earth et ils sont époustouflants. À…

‘Tout n’est que souplesse et grands pas. Les secondes prennent leurs aises et les bras ne cessent de chercher le ciel dans des courbes amenant d’autres cercles. Le tout virevolte, vrille dans une danse qui ne cherche pas à intellectualiser le mouvement, mais au contraire à faire briller la beauté et la prouesse.’ Read the…

‘…it works beautifully, because Abraham’s physical vocabulary is so fluent and varied — from airy, balletic turns to groovy floorwork — that it can mimic the ebb and flow of party conversations.’ Read the full article here.

‘Dancing in a loose unison with Kirk and with one another, they sow, they swing baseball bats, they put one hand to the heart and the other to the head. The gestural arm movements suggest ritual, imprecation, oppression.’ Read the full article here.

‘The vast array of the solos, couplings and larger group numbers in the production were performed by an ensemble of dancers that possessed an inexhaustible fount of energy and stamina. A heightened sense of physicality replete with graceful, lithe-limbed arm/wrist movements, leaps and turns was sustained throughout.’ Read the full article here.

“To make a work experiential, I want people to just take it in,” Abraham says, reluctant to reveal too much about the selected tracks that have had a defining presence in his life since college when the soulful singer-songwriter released his debut studio album, “Brown Sugar.” “This work is really all things. There are moments…

‘But in 2020, the choreographer was profoundly uninterested in Zoom dances. He wanted to make “honest connections.” He wanted to talk. Abraham’s newest piece, “An Untitled Love,” was not quite finished at that point. During those months of isolation, he and his dancers worked out the kinks in an unusual way: in weekly two-hour discussions,…

‘Defying the defeatist lyrics of the Richard Rodgers/Lorenz Hart ballad “Little Girl Blue” with her astonishing solo to Simone’s rippling chords, Gianna Theodore rose from the floor using only her hands, executing arcs, twists, backward lifts and spins that drew from breakdance but beyond. Her fearless precision was a triumphant counterpoint to this portrayal of…

‘Multi-award winner Kyle Abraham, the recipient of a prestigious McArthur “genius grant’, set up A.I.M in 2006 with the aim of creating a body of dance-based work intimately concerned with Black culture and history. In Requiem: Fire in the Air of the Earth the choreographer explores death, mourning and rebirth through reimagining Mozart’s Requiem in…