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#BAMNextWave #KyleAbraham LOCATION: RUN TIME: DATES: 55mins, nointermission BAM Fisher (Fishman Space) NOV 2—5at7:30pm Executive Producer Joseph V. Melillo, President Katy Clark, Vice ChairmanoftheBoard Adam E.Max, Vice ChairmanoftheBoard William I.Campbell, Chairman oftheBoard Alan H. Fishman, Brooklyn AcademyofMusic at BAMprovidedbythe fordance Leadership support GilmoreFoundation.Mertz BAM Fisher providedbythe fordance atthe Support the Rockefeller BrothersFund. New York by supported Cityartists Programming intheBAMFisher by Season Sponsor: provided byThe SHSFoundation. fordanceatBAM Major support The HarknessFoundation for . Doris Duke CharitableFoundation and BAM Fisher Pavement ABOUT Director’s Note Pavement The creation and presentation of 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 . 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 spent most of his teenage years. A half Britten, Antonio Caldara, Sam Cooke, Foundation, , 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, , 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 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 . 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, , 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 (), 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 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 . 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 . 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. in Wynn, and Dianne McIntyre. Since Performing Arts High School of NYC. Sound editor graduating, Monteiro has worked with Training also includes Creative Outlet Sidra Bell Dance New York, Elisa Mon- under the tutelage of Jamel Gaines. Sam Crawford completed both his BA THOMAS HOUSE te Dance, Keigwin + Company, BODY- He appeared as Jackie Thibadeux in in English and AS in audio technology Dancer TRAFFIC, and Abraham.In.Motion. He George C. Wolfe’s Caroline or Change at Indiana University in 2003. A move has assisted Kyle Abraham in setting at the Public Theater, which moved to to New York City led him to Looking Thomas House was born and raised in and creating work for Barnard College, Broadway in 2003, and also in ABC’s Glass Studios where he worked on Virginia Beach, VA, where he trained Princeton University, Emory University, Manhattan Love Story. Recently Tate film projects with and in dance primarily with Denise Wall. Tisch School of the Arts at NYU, Alvin completed his first season with The Björk. His recent sound designs and He began his formal training at SUNY Ailey American Dance Theater, and Metropolitan Opera Ballet, an inter- compositions have included works for Purchase and graduated in 2014. Wendy Whelan’s Restless Creature. national tour of Rock the Ballet with the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance While in school he performed works Monteiro was a member of Ailey II and Rasta Thomas’s BAD BOYS of Dance, Company (Venice Biennale, 2010), by Lar Lubovitch, Merce Cunningham, joined the Alvin Ailey American Dance and debuted at the Joyce Theater as a Yin Mei Dance (Beijing, 2010), and William Forsythe, Doug Varone, and Theater in 2015. guest artist for Complexions Contem- David Dorfman Dance. He currently Twyla Tharp, and had the opportunity porary Ballet 20th Anniversary. He has resides in Brooklyn where he works to study dance abroad for four months guested with Wylliams-Henry Contem- as a freelance composer, designer, in Taipei, Taiwan. House is currently JEREMY “JAE” NEAL porary Dance Company, Collage Dance and engineer. He also plays lap steel based in Brooklyn, where he works Dancer Collective, and Pennsylvania Youth and banjo in various groups, including as a freelance dance artist. He began Ballet. Currently Tate is represented by Corpus Christi (Rome). working with Kyle Abraham in the fall Jeremy “Jae” Neal was born and raised MSA Talent Agency, NYC. This is his of 2015. Along with touring with Abra- in Michigan and received his training first season with AIM. ham.In.Motion, he has most recently from Western Michigan University. MARITZA MOSQUERA performed with companies Aszure There, he performed in professional Public programs developer Barton & Artists at the City Center works including Strict Love by Doug CHARLOTTE BRATHWAITE Fall for Dance festival and with Kate Varone, Temporal Trance by Frank Dramaturge Maritza Mosquera, artist community- Wallich + The YC at Jacob’s Pillow. Chavez, and Harrison McEldowney’s transformation partner, has developed, House has also worked and performed Dance Sport. Since relocating to New A native of Toronto, Canada, Char- organized, and presented new prac- with Loni Landon Dance Project, York Neal has had the privilege of lotte Brathwaite is a freelance director tices in arts education and artist-led LoudHoundMovement, TOES for Dance working with SYREN , whose works have been presented community collaborations with several and Zoe|Juniper. Last year he choreo- Christina Noel Reaves, Catapult in New York and internationally. Her organizations including Yerba Buena graphed and presented his own work Entertainment, Katherine Helen Fisher directing credits include: Woman Center for the Arts, Alabama Dance to see. [arena] reaction to you in NYC. Dance, Nathan Trice, and currently Bomb (Baryshnikov Arts Center); The Council, Chicago Arts Partners in Edu- Abraham.In.Motion. Neal would like to Coming... (Living Theater); American cation, Finding History in Ourselves, thank his family and friends for their Schemes by Radha Blank (NYC Sum- The Black and White Reunion, and The CHALVAR MONTEIRO consistent encouragement and support. merstage); Shakespeare’s A Mid- Andy Warhol Museum. She has taught Dancer summer Night’s Dream, A Streetcar in various schools and universities Named Desire by Tennessee Williams; across the country including University Chalvar Monteiro began his formal KEVIN RICARDO TATE Kleopatra (Kolkata, India); and Smile of Pennsylvania, Temple University, dance training at Sharron Miller’s Dancer/Alternate Orange (Trinidad, WI). She holds an and Perspectives and Noble Acade- Academy for the Performing Arts and MFA from Yale School of Drama, and is mies. Mosquera is based in Pittsburgh, went on to study at The Ailey School. Kevin Ricardo Tate was raised in recipient of the Julian Milton Kaufman PA, where she is currently developing He received his BFA in dance from Brooklyn, New York by way of Wash- Prize and a Princess Grace Award. community engagement programs for SUNY Purchase, where he performed ington, DC. He is an alumnus of the charlottebrathwaite.com the Jewish Association on Aging, Hatch Arts Collective, and her own Fracking: interested in the intersections of dance, the body and Food Truck programs. theater, music, and video. In addition to Kyle Abraham/ Mosquera has recently received awards Abraham.In.Motion, recent collabora- Abraham.In.Motion from the Mid-West Arts Foundation, tions include Jane Comfort and Com- Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. the pany, Pavel Zuštiak/Palissimo, LeeSaar The mission of Kyle Abraham/Abraham. Generous support for Kyle Abraham/ Abraham.In.Motion provided by The Fan Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation, the Na- the Company, Scott Ebersold, Paul H. In.Motion (AIM) is to create an evocative Fox & Leslie R. Samuels Foundation, tional Endowment for the Arts, and the Bedard/Theater in Asylum, Tara Ahma- interdisciplinary body of work. Born The Howard Gilman Foundation, Mertz- Ford Foundation. The Multi-Cultural dinejad/Piehole, and Tami Stronach. He into hip-hop culture in the late 1970s and grounded in Abraham’s artistic Gilmore Foundation, Mid Atlantic Arts Arts Initiative has also supported her has worked in venues such as BAM, the upbringing in classical cello, piano, and Foundation, New England Foundation own artwork, which focuses on ideas Joyce, New York Live Arts, La MaMa, the visual arts, the goal of the movement for the Arts’ National Dance Project with of justice, health, intimacy, and com- Abrons Arts Center, HERE, Dixon Place, is to delve into identity in relation to a funding from the Doris Duke Charitable munity. She received an MFA from and 3LD in New York, and internation- personal history. The work entwines a Foundation, New York Community University of Pennsylvania and a BFA ally from to Korea and many sensual and provocative vocabulary with Trust, Princess Grace Foundation-USA, from Maryland Institute College of Art. places in between. He is a graduate of a strong emphasis on sound, human The Rockefeller Brothers Fund, and She also studied at Skowhegan School NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. behavior, and all things visual in an The Samuel H. Scripps Foundation. of Painting in Maine. effort to create an avenue for personal Public funding provided by The National Endowment for the Arts and The New investigation and exposing that on stage. York State Council on the Arts with ALEXANDRA WELLS AIM is a representation of dancers from support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and DAN SCULLY Editing advisor various disciplines and diverse personal the New York State Legislature. Lighting and video design backgrounds. Combined together, these individualities create movement that is As a principal dancer of the Ballet manipulated and molded into something Dan Scully is a New York-based light- National de Nancy, Alexandra Wells fresh and unique. ing and projection designer, and has toured the world and formed lasting been designing for Kyle Abraham/ partnerships with Rudolf Nureyev Artistic Director: Kyle Abraham Abraham.In.Motion for over 10 years, and Patrick Dupond. Following her including the full-length evening works performing career, she returned to the Board of Directors: Pavement, Live! The Realest M.C., and first as rehearsal direc- Stephen Simcock (chair), Kyle Abraham the Bessie Award-winning The Radio tor with Ballet Hispanico and then as (Artistic Director, ex-officio), Cheryl Show. Recent work includes Rocky faculty member of L’École Supérieure Bergenfeld, Chris Calkins, , Bebe Neuwirth, Carrie Schneider, Eric (Broadway), Jedermann (Salzburger de Danse du Québec. In 2002 she co- Shiner, and Gilda Squire. Festspeile), The Orchestra Rocks! founded Springboard Danse Montréal (Carnegie Hall), and Another Night with Susan Alexander. The mission of Staff: (Alvin Ailey). Regionally, his credits this project is to connect emerging art- Executive Director: Joe Stackell include Trinity Rep, GEVA, Asolo Rep, ists to job opportunities while providing Production Manager: Dan Stearns Cleveland Playhouse, Hudson Valley professional companies with dancers. Company Manager: Hillary Kooistra Shakespeare Festival, and Two River In 2009 Wells designed the Movement Finance Manager: Lucy Mallett Theater Company. He received his MFA Invention Project in NYC, under the Choreographic Associate: Matthew Baker from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. umbrella of NJDTE, with a focus on Rehearsal Director: Tamisha Guy collaborative and improvisational skills. Rehearsal Assistant: Jeremy “Jae” Neal Education Assistant: Connie Shiau In 1998 Wells joined the full-time fac- Marketing and Development Associate: DAN STEARNS ulty at The in New York Catherine Ellis Kirk Production manager City. In 2012 she was recognized for Marketing Assistant: Penda N’diaye her entrepreneurial work with Spring- Dan Stearns is a lighting designer, sce- board Danse Montréal in the Juilliard nic designer, and production manager Convocation. Photo: Carrie Schneider

To our collaborators and supporters and To staff of A.I.M., Danspace the amazing Harlem Stage, Hobart- Wil and Project, Theater Colleges, The Joyce liam Smith thank you and NDP, MANCC Foundation, and for all for believing in this project this show and that you’ve done to get running! Thank you to everyone who’s been a part in all its of the creation of this work Pavement iterations. Since its premiere, Thanks! has been performed 100 an amazing and Jeremy “Jae” times! Matthew Baker with me on this Neal, thank you for being I’m so deeply journey since its inception. you’ve shown moved by the commitment to this work and to my creative vision. thank you to everyone who Lastly, ventured out to see this work at Harlem Stage during Hurricane Sandy…some of you by bus from Brooklyn! And thank you to those of you interested enough to spend your evening with us either for the first time or as someone who has supported or encouraged me throughout the years. Abraham -Kyle - visit abrahaminmotion.org. purchase your AIM merchandise, please purchase your AIM merchandise, please For more information, to get involved, or to get involved, or more information, For Website: lotusartsmgmt.com Website: Email: [email protected] Tel: 1-347-721–8724 Tel: President, Lotus Arts Lotus Management at President, contact Sophie Myrtil-McCourty, contact Sophie Myrtil-McCourty, For worldwide booking information, worldwide booking information, For deductible to the extent allowed by law. organization, and all donations are fully are fully and all donations organization, is a non-profit tax-exempt 501(c)(3) is a non-profit tax-exempt 501(c)(3) haminmotion.org. Abraham.In.Motion Abraham.In.Motion haminmotion.org. - donate online, visit abra NY 10113. To ham.In.Motion, P.O.Box 986, New York, 986, New York, P.O.Box ham.In.Motion, - Abraham/Abra be made payable to: Kyle community outreach! Contributions may Contributions may community outreach! Support the creation of new work and dradance.org/donate. ence for those less fortunate. Donate at need. Together, we can make a differ need. Together, safety net of social services those in for the performing arts community to fund a extraordinary and efforts compassion of Hernando Cortez, DRA relies on the members Denise Robertsmembers Denise Hurlin and by former Paul Taylor Dance Company Dance Company Taylor by former Paul otherwise do without. Founded in 1991 in 1991 otherwise Founded do without. receive the care and comfortreceive the they would helps ensure that those most in need in need those most ensure that helps of Dancers Responding to AIDS, which to AIDS, which Responding of Dancers Abraham.In.Motion is a proud supporter is a Abraham.In.Motion