Kyle Abraham/Abraham.in.Motion
Layard Thompson
Brick and The Dripping Kind
Cup...puC......K......Ohhhh, Beauty, full, vessel:
Friday Night Toast Dec 5
Emerging choreographer Kyle Abraham is recognized for his smooth, athletic Hip-Hop influenced style. Brick,
a solo for Kyle, blends this signature style with influences from American visual artist Kara Walker and 17th century Japanese
artist Hishikawa Moronobu. In The Dripping Kind, a group piece for seven dancers, Kyle explores a more dissonant, abstract
movement style - a departure for the choreographer.
Cup...puC......K......Ohhhh, Beauty, full, vessel: is a soul-o dance. It is a score, a channel, a vessel, and a body of work
both choreographed and spontaneous. Composed with movement, vocalizations, performance meditations, and a costume and
set with collaborator Machine Dazzle, Layard Thompson considers and questions the subjective nature of experience through the
container of a performance at Dance Theater Workshop. Lighting brilliance by Chloë Z Brown.
- Brick, The Dripping Kind, and Cup...puC......K......Ohhhh, Beauty, full, vessel: are commissioned by the Bessie Schönberg/First Light Commissioning and Creative Residency Program of Dance Theater Workshop with support from the Jerome Foundation, the Ford Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency, the New York State Council on the Arts, and the Jerome Robbins Foundation. This presentation is made possible, in part, by the generous support of Philip Gallo through the David R. White Producers Circle.