OZ Arts Nashville

A.I.M. by Kyle Abraham

An Untitled Love

October 20-22

Tickets from $25

“Elastic and electric, luxuriantly rippling, poetically arranged with moments of perfect stillness that arrive amid splashes of expression”

Dance Magazine

An Untitled Love beautifully presents dance as interpersonal communication. It’s a theatrical love letter to social dance.”

The New York Times

Sensual, sophisticated, and breathtakingly visual, this new production by acclaimed choreographer Kyle Abraham is propelled by the seductive R&B and soul music of enigmatic GRAMMY-winner D’Angelo. Starting as an electrically-charged house party on stage, the evening evolves into a joyous, multifaceted celebration of love with powerful and virtuosic dancing by the 10 members of Abraham’s celebrated company. Abraham dedicates this feel-good work — its visceral hope, solace, and joy — to family, culture, and community strengthened over generations and lifetimes. 

Returning to OZ Arts for the first time since his stunning 2015 Nashville debut, Abraham has become one of today’s most acclaimed and sought-after choreographers, known for theatrical and poetic work immersed in Hip-hop culture. He has been honored as a MacArthur “Genius” Fellow, a recipient of the Princess Grace Statue Award, and a Jacob’s Pillow Dance Award winner, and was the first Black choreographer to make work for the New York City Ballet in over a decade.

Kyle Abraham

Post-Show Conversation

Friday, October 21

Following the performance at OZ Arts

Friday night ticket holders are invited to remain in their seats after the performance for a special conversation with the dancers of A.I.M. by Kyle Abraham.

Free Dance Masterclass

Saturday, October 22
11AM - 12:30PM

Join company members from A.I.M. by Kyle Abraham for a dynamic, one-time-only masterclass experience. This masterclass is designed for movers with intermediate or advanced dance training.

“What Abraham brings…is an avant-garde aesthetic, an original and politically minded downtown sensibility that doesn’t distinguish between genres but freely draws on a vocabulary that is as much Merce and Martha as it is Eadweard Muybridge and Michael Jackson.”

Vogue

This presentation of An Untitled Love is supported, in part, by funding from the New England Foundation for the Arts’ National Dance Project, with lead funding from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and the Mellon Foundation.

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