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Brooklyn Academy of Music Alan H. Fishman, Chairman of the Board William I. Campbell, Vice Chairman of the Board Adam E. Max, Vice Chairman of the Board Katy Clark, Pavement President Joseph V. Melillo, Executive Producer Kyle Abraham/ Abraham.In.Motion DATES: NOV 2—5 at 7:30pm Season Sponsor: LOCATION: BAM Fisher (Fishman Space) RUN TIME: 55mins, no intermission Programming in the BAM Fisher by New York City artists supported by the Rockefeller Brothers Fund. Support for dance at the BAM Fisher provided by the Mertz Gilmore Foundation. Leadership support for dance at BAM provided by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and The Harkness Foundation for Dance. Major support for dance at BAM provided by The SHS Foundation. #KyleAbraham #BAMNextWave BAM Fisher Pavement ABOUT Director’s Note Pavement The creation and presentation of CHOREOGRAPHY Pavement is supported by the National “Men call the shadow prejudice, and In 1991, I was fourteen and entering Kyle Abraham in collaboration with Endowment for the Arts in cooperation learnedly explain it as a natural defense of the ninth grade at Schenley High School Abraham.In.Motion with the New England Foundation for the culture against barbarism, learning against in the historic Hill District of Pittsburgh. Arts though the National Dance Project. ignorance, purity against crime, the That same year, John Singleton’s film DRAMATURGE Major support for NDP is provided by the ‘higher’ against the ‘lower’ races.” Boyz N the Hood was released. For me, Charlotte Brathwaite Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and the film depicted an idealized “Gangsta The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, with —W.E.B. Du Bois Bohème” laying aim to the state of the EDITING ADVISOR additional support from the Community Black American male at the end of the Alexandra Wells Connections Fund of the MetLife 20th century. Twenty years later and Foundation. Support from the NEA more than ten years into the 21st century, COSTUME DESIGN provides funding for choreographers in I am focused on investigating the state of Kyle Abraham the early stages of their careers. Black America and a history therein. SCENIC AND LIGHTING DESIGN Special thanks to Harlem Stage, the Lead Reimagined as a dance work and now Dan Scully Commissioner of Pavement through its set in Pittsburgh’s historically black WaterWorks program. Pavement had neighborhoods, East Liberty, Homewood, PUBLIC PROGRAMS DEVELOPER its world premiere at The Harlem Stage and the Hill District, Pavement, aims Maritza Mosquera Gatehouse on November 2—3, 2012. to create a strong emotional chronology WaterWorks is supported by Time Warner of a culture conflicted with a history SOUND EDITING and the National Endowment for the Arts. plagued by discrimination, genocide, Sam Crawford and a constant quest for a lottery ticket Developed in part during a Choreographic weighted in freedom. PERFORMERS Fellowship at the Maggie Allesee National Kyle Abraham, Matthew Baker, Vinson Center for Choreography at Florida State Looking primarily at Homewood and the Fraley Jr., Tamisha Guy, Thomas House, University, Pavement was also created Hill District, their histories run parallel. Chalvar Monteiro, Jeremy “Jae” Neal, during a residency provided by The Joyce Both experienced a cultural shift in Kevin Ricardo Tate Theater Foundation, NYC, with major the 1950’s when jazz legends like Ella support from The Andrew W. Mellon Fitzgerald and Duke Ellington performed MUSIC: Foundation as well as during a residency at local theaters, and Billy Strayhorn J.C. Bach, Jacques Brel, Benjamin provided by The Joyce Theater spent most of his teenage years. A half Britten, Antonio Caldara, Sam Cooke, Foundation, New York City, with major a century later, those same theaters Colin Davis, Emmanuelle Haïm, Heather support from The Rockefeller became dilapidated. The streets that Harper, Donny Hathaway, Foundation’s NYC Cultural Innovation once flourished on family run businesses Edward Howard, Concerto Köln, Philippe Fund and the Rockefeller Brothers Fund. and a thriving jazz scene now show the Jaroussky, Le Cercle de L’Harmonie, sad effects of gang violence and crack Alan Lomax, Ensemble Matheus, Fred The creation of Pavement was made cocaine. McDowell, Hudson Mohawke, Alva Noto, possible, in part, by Danspace Project Jérémie Rhorer, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Carl Commissioning Initiative with support —Kyle Abraham Sigman, Jean-Christophe Spinosi, and from the Jerome Foundation. Pavement Antonio Vivaldi. was developed, in part, during a creative residency at the Bates Dance Festival. Video images courtesy of Chris Ivey Pavement is made possible, in part, by Lower Manhattan Cultural Council’s Swing Space program. That same year, Abraham was named at the Yerba Buena Center for the the 2012 Jacob’s Pillow Dance Award Arts in San Francisco, May 2017, VINSON FRALEY JR. recipient and 2012 USA Ford Fellow. and Untitled America, a three-part Dancer commissioned work for the Alvin Ailey Who’s Abraham received a Bessie Award for American Dance Theater to premiere in Vinson Fraley, Jr., is from Atlanta, GA Outstanding Performance in Dance for December of 2016. where he began his training at the age his work in The Radio Show, and a of 14 under the direction of Lynise and Princess Grace Award for Choreography In 2011, OUT magazine labeled Abra- Denise Heard. He also was immersed Who in 2010. The previous year, he was ham as the “best and brightest creative in a wide range of art crafts while at- selected as one of Dance Magazine’s talent to emerge in New York City in tending DeKalb School of the Arts. He KYLE ABRAHAM 25 to Watch for 2009, and received a the age of Obama.” is now enrolled in the dance program Artistic Director/Choreographer Jerome Travel and Study Grant in 2008. at Tisch School of the Arts at New York University. Fraley has been fortunate Kyle Abraham, 2016 Doris Duke Artist His choreography has been presented MATTHEW BAKER enough to work with many chore- Award Recipient and 2015 City Center throughout the US and abroad, most Dancer ographers and instructors including Choreographer in Residence, is a recently at On the Boards, South Bill T. Jones, Rashaun Mitchell, Cora 2013 MacArthur Fellow who began his Miami-Dade Cultural Arts Center, Matthew Baker hails from Ann Arbor, Bos Kroese, Gus Solomons jr, Cindy dance training at the Civic Light Opera REDCAT, Philly Live Arts, Portland’s MI, where he began movement explo- Salgado, Seán Curran, and many more. Academy and the Creative and Per- Time Based Arts Festival, Jacob’s Pil- ration as a gymnast and soccer player. He is thrilled to be performing with forming Arts High School in Pittsburgh, low Dance Festival, Danspace Project, He crossed the state to receive his Abraham.In.Motion. Pennsylvania. He continued his dance Dance Theater Workshop, Bates Dance BFA in dance from Western Michigan studies in New York, receiving a BFA Festival, Harlem Stage, Fall for Dance University. Arriving in NYC he worked from SUNY Purchase and an MFA from Festival at New York’s City Center, as with Keith Thompson and as creative TAMISHA GUY NYU Tisch School of the Arts and most well as in Montreal, Germany, Jordan, assistant to Mark Dendy before joining Dancer recently, an honorary Doctorate in Fine Ecuador, Dublin’s Project Arts Center, Keigwin + Company (K+C) in 2009. Arts from Washington Jefferson College the Okinawa Prefectural Museum & Art In 2012 he joined with Kyle Abraham/ Tamisha Guy, a native of Trinidad in 2014. Museum (Japan), The Andy Warhol Abraham.in.Motion for Pavement and and Tobago, began her formal dance Museum, and the Kelly-Strayhorn The- enjoyed creating and performing for training at Ballet Tech, the New York In November 2012, Abraham was ater in his hometown of Pittsburgh, PA. both AIM & K+C through 2014 when City Public School for Dance under named the newly appointed New York he began working as choreographic the direction of Eliot Feld. Later she Live Arts Resident Commissioned Artist In addition to performing and devel- associate to Kyle Abraham. Baker was attended Fiorello H. LaGuardia High for 2012—14. One month later, Alvin oping new works for his company, the recipient of a distinguished alumni School, and SUNY Purchase College Ailey American Dance Theater pre- Abraham.In.Motion (AIM), Abraham award from his alma mater in 2014. as a double major in dance and arts miered his work Another Night, at New recently finished touring The Serpent He continues to love performing with management. She has completed York’s City Center to rave reviews. and the Smoke, a new pas de deux for cherished colleagues and sends love to summer programs with Complexions himself and acclaimed Bessie Award- friends and family. Contemporary Ballet, Springboard Rebecca Bengal of Vogue writes, winning and former New York City Danse Montréal, and Nathan Trice “What Abraham brings to Ailey is Ballet principal dancer Wendy Whelan and performed works by William an avant-garde aesthetic, a original as part of Restless Creature and cho- Forsythe, Pam Tanowitz, Loni Landon, and politically minded downtown reographed for the upcoming feature- Mark Morris, and Martha Graham. sensibility that doesn’t distinguish length film, The Book of Henry with In 2013 Guy graduated with honors between genres but freely draws on a renowned director Colin Trevorrow. from SUNY Purchase. She joined the vocabulary that is as much Merce and Abraham is currently working Martha Graham Company shortly after, Martha as it is Eadweard Muybridge on Dearest Home, an immersive and in 2014 joined Kyle Abraham’s and Michael Jackson.” interactive work for AIM set to premiere Abraham.In.Motion. In 2016 Guy was selected as one of Dance Magazine’s works by Merce Cunningham, Helen University of North Carolina School Top 25 to Watch, and she also received Pickett, Doug Varone, Paul Taylor, Kev- of the Arts as well as the Professional SAM CRAWFORD the 2016 Princess Grace Award.