{"id":4020,"date":"2012-10-24T18:06:25","date_gmt":"2012-10-24T18:06:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/?p=4020"},"modified":"2024-04-22T14:37:22","modified_gmt":"2024-04-22T18:37:22","slug":"kyle-abraham-in-motion-at-swarthmore-116-1111","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/music-and-dance\/2012\/10\/24\/kyle-abraham-in-motion-at-swarthmore-116-1111\/","title":{"rendered":"Kyle Abraham.in.Motion at Swarthmore 11\/6 &#8211; 11\/11"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Department of Music and Dance at Swarthmore College and the William J. Cooper Foundation present <strong>Kyle Abraham\u2019s<\/strong> <em>PAVEMENT<\/em> on Friday November 9, 2012 at 8PM in the Lang Performing Arts Center\u2019s Pearson-Hall Theater.\u00a0 Abraham\u2019s latest piece of work, <em>PAVEMENT<\/em>, pays homage to the bold, 1990\u2019s backward-jeans-and-high-top-fade era in hip-hop, while examining a culture with a history plagued by discrimination, genocide, and a constant quest for a way out.<\/p>\n<p>Inspired by John Singleton\u2019s groundbreaking film <em>Boyz N The Hood <\/em>(1991) and essays of W.E.B DuBois\u2019 <em>The Souls of Black Folk<\/em> (1903), Abraham\u2019s <em>PAVEMENT<\/em> tells the story of a group of friends struggling to stay together while their community is being torn apart.\u00a0 Set in the historically black neighborhoods of Pittsburgh, <em>PAVEMENT<\/em> depicts scenes of violence, love, male bonding, arrests, physical and emotional pain, all combined with sound bites from the film and operatic music.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kyle Abraham<\/strong> \u2014 the 2012 Jacob\u2019s Pillow Dance Award recipient and 2010 Bessie Award-winning choreographer \u2014 first discovered his love of performance at the Civic Light Opera Academy in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.\u00a0 He then went on to receive his BFA from SUNY Purchase and MFA from New York University Tisch School for the Arts. Abraham has collaborated with David Dorfman Dance, Mimi Garrard Dance Theater, Bill T. Jones\/Arnie Zane Dance Company, and is currently choreographing for Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kyle Abraham\/Abraham.In.Motion<\/strong> will also be involved in several residency activities during the week with Swarthmore students and the public.\u00a0 These activities include a screening and discussion of Singleton\u2019s film <em>Boyz N the Hood<\/em> on November 6 at 7PM, a Lecture\/Demonstration on November 7 at 7PM, a <em>Dance as Identity<\/em> workshop on November 11 at 1PM.<\/p>\n<p>For further information about these events, contact Tara Webb at 610-328-8260 or lpacevents@swarthmore.edu. The performance is free and open to the public without reservations.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Department of Music and Dance at Swarthmore College and the William J. Cooper Foundation present Kyle Abraham\u2019s PAVEMENT on Friday November 9, 2012 at 8PM in the Lang Performing Arts Center\u2019s Pearson-Hall Theater.\u00a0 Abraham\u2019s latest piece of work, PAVEMENT, pays homage to the bold, 1990\u2019s backward-jeans-and-high-top-fade era in hip-hop, while examining a culture with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[18],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/music-and-dance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4020"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/music-and-dance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/music-and-dance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/music-and-dance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/music-and-dance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4020"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/music-and-dance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4020\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7221,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/music-and-dance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4020\/revisions\/7221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/music-and-dance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/music-and-dance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/music-and-dance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}