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Kyle Abraham

April 2024

  • Christos Papadopoulos’s Larsen C.

    Shortlist unveiled for dance’s answer to the Turner prize

    Choreographers from the US, Brazil, Greece and Portugal in the running for the £40,000 inaugural Rose international dance prize

March 2024

  • Naomi Corti and Adrian Danchig-Waring of New York City Ballet in Pam Tanowitz’ Gustave Le Gray No. 1.

    New York City Ballet review – iconic company returns to show the shape of modern ballet

    NYCB’s first UK visit in 16 years brings a quadruple bill that looks to the past briefly, but mostly presents a very 21st-century vision

December 2022

  • All the right moves … Peaky Blinders, An Untitled Love and Ruination.

    2022 in Culture
    The best dance of 2022

    Exhilarating highlights this year ranged from tech-savvy ballet and a juggling celebration of Merce Cunningham to a daring flamenco Rite of Spring

August 2022

  • An Untitled Love.

    An Untitled Love review – a delicious slice of African American life

  • An Untitled Love … set at a house party, complete with plastic-covered sofas and candid conversations.

    ‘There’s a lot of laughter, a lot of joy’: Kyle Abraham on the family parties that inspired his new dance show

July 2022

  • Three of Edinburgh’s finest … Phil Wang, Sophie Duker and Ian McKellen.

    Edinburgh festival 2022: 50 shows to see

    Phil Wang makes a heroic return, Ian McKellen stars in a balletic Hamlet and Sophie Duker is gleefully carefree. Here are our picks of the festival’s comedy, theatre and dance

June 2022

  • AIM by Kyle Abraham – Requiem: Fire in the Air of the Earth at Sadler’s Wells, London.

    A.I.M. by Kyle Abraham review – a genre-defying picture of life and hope

    The rightly revered US choreographer returns with an enigmatic piece that blends Mozart with Afrofuturism and feels experimental but authentic

April 2022

  • Pawlet Brookes.

    ‘I would say that we trailblaze’: dance dynamo Pawlet Brookes

  • Black Ballet’s Say It Loud,

    Ballet Black; Royal Ballet review – mixed blessings and beauty in motion

March 2022

  • The Royal Ballet's production of Kyle Abraham's The Weathering.

    Royal Ballet review – Kyle Abraham’s fresh style connects to the real world

    The versatility of the modern ballet dancer is showcased in a triple bill featuring works by Crystal Pite and Christopher Wheeldon

December 2021

  • Clockwise from top left: Cush Jumbo in Hamlet, Mo Gilligan, Megan Stalter, Wuthering Heights and Giselle.

    Best culture 2021
    The best theatre, comedy and dance of 2021

    It was a year of revivals in every sense, as venues threw open their doors again. From fresh takes on classics to blazing new talents and shows that captured the current moment, our critics pick their favourites of the year

May 2021

  • members of English National Ballet perform Arielle Smith’s Jolly Folly.

    The week in dance: Reunion; 21st-Century Choreographers reviews – a joyous return

  • Valentino Zucchetti and Francesca Hayward in Within the Golden Hour by Christopher Wheeldon.

    The Royal Ballet: 21st-Century Choreographers review – racing out of the blocks

April 2021

  • Space to move… the first scene of When We Fell is filmed in the lobby of the David H. Koch Theater in the Lincoln Center

    Lockdown culture
    Kyle Abraham’s When We Fell review – study of stillness and isolation in black and white

    The choreographer’s unhurried movements are rendered exquisitely on film by cinematographer Ryan Marie Helfant for New York City Ballet

August 2020

  • Dance of Dreams

    Lockdown culture
    No standing still: the best of lockdown dance

    From an elegant ode to San Francisco to Japanese hip-hop in a park, here’s how dancers are tackling our new normal

December 2017

  • A scene from 10,000 Gestures by Boris Charmatz

    Best culture 2017
    The top 10 dance shows of 2017

    Sgt Pepper strutted, Boris Charmatz gave us a buttock-scratching beauty and three men became Lady Macbeth – our critic picks the best dance of the year

November 2017

  • Ivan Putrov and Francesca Hayward in Le Spectre De La Rose part of Men In Motion

    Men in Motion; Kyle Abraham: Pavement review – Putrov looks to the past

    The pick of male ballet talent struggle to shine on Ivan Putrov’s bare stage, but Kyle Abraham sends his dancers soaring
  • Pavement by Kyle Abraham at Sadler’s Wells, London.

    Kyle Abraham: Pavement review – dancing in handcuffs with aggression and grace

    Inspired by his Philadelphia childhood and the film Boyz N the Hood, Abraham’s vivid choreography evokes daily violence but also camaraderie and tenderness
  • Kyle Abraham's Pavement

    'White governments gave us guns and turned a blind eye': Kyle Abraham on his Boyz N the Hood dance

    His political fury and upbeat moves make Kyle Abraham one of America’s most original choreographers. He talks about systemic racism, his wrecked home town of Pittsburgh, creating an African opera and playing Obama’s speeches backwards

September 2013

  • Choreographer and dancer Kyle Abraham poses for a portrait in New York

    MacArthur Foundation genius grants – the winners

    The 24 fellows who will each receive $625,000 over the next five years from the John D and Catherine T MacArthur Foundation

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