Tag: A.I.M BY KYLE ABRAHAM
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Dance Informa | Kyle Abraham’s ‘An Untitled Love’: Embodying Black Excellence
‘An Untitled Love brings together the candid and the performative to create a lively atmosphere brimming with the beauty of black love. The crowd undoubtedly felt that love. For one precious, celebratory hour, the world almost felt like itself again.’ Read the full article here
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New York Times | Review: Kyle Abraham’s Theatrical Love Letter to Social Dance
“An Untitled Love” beautifully presents dance as interpersonal communication. It’s a theatrical love letter to social dance. Read the full article here.
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The Undefeated | Choreographer Kyle Abraham’s New Work Centers on Black Love and the Music of D’Angelo
Abraham describes An Untitled Love as “the purest Kyle Abraham dance there has ever been,” meaning most of the dance steps originated in his body. “I’m so familiar with the music of D’Angelo that it really was me living out my biggest fantasy, just living this music that I love so much.” Embodying that feeling, Abraham has…
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New York Times | ‘A Black Love Sitcom Dance’: Kyle Abraham’s D’Angelo Moves
In his evening-length work coming to BAM, Abraham wanted to focus on celebration and joy in Black culture, “the way we love and love on each other.” Set to songs by D’Angelo — Abraham calls himself a Day 1 D’Angelo fan — the show emerged from a desire not to ignore painful realities, he said,…
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Santa Barbara Independent | Review | A.I.M by Kyle Abraham, ‘An Untitled Love’ Set to D’Angelo’s Neo-Soul in Santa Barbara
An Untitled Love, the hour-long work they showed, shook the delighted audience to their emotional foundations with a daring, heartfelt, and brilliantly idiomatic celebration of love, suffering, yearning, and bliss. Read the full article here
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The San Diego Union-Tribune | In ‘An Untitled Love,’ Kyle Abraham and A.I.M Create a Dance Show Around the Music of D’Angelo
Choreographer Kyle Abraham has described his dance-making as a “kitchen sink” of influences: a potent mix of classical ballet’s grace and precision, the swagger and syncopation seen in jazz and the fierce, freestyle athleticism of hip-hop. Read the full article here.
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SF CLASSICAL VOICE| Kyle Abraham Transforms Mozart’s Requiem
We used to call shows like these a trip. But in the context of times like these, Kyle Abraham’s Requiem: Fire in the Air of the Earth fulfills its name. There are countless passages and phrases that beautifully reflect love and concern, empathy and humor. And hope. The dancers are above all a unit, whether fusing or…
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PALO ALTO ONLINE | Dance company breathes new life into Mozart’s last work
“Requiem: Fire in the Air of the Earth,” led by renowned choreographer and MacArthur Fellow Kyle Abraham in collaboration with the musician Jlin, gives new life to Mozart’s final composition as a production that ponders ritual and mourning and celebrates transformation and resurrection. In musical terms, a requiem is a piece played for a funeral…
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CONVERSATIONS ON DANCE | (262) KYLE ABRAHAM, CHOREOGRAPHER AND ARTISTIC DIRECTOR OF A.I.M BY KYLE ABRAHAM
This week on ‘Conversations On Dance’ we are joined by award-winning choreographer Kyle Abraham. Kyle’s choreographic talents garnered attention quickly in works he created for his company A.I.M, leading to a MacArthur Fellowship in 2013 and commissions from some of the most respected dance institutions in the world. We talk to Kyle about his creative…