Chasing the Elusive & Shape Shifting with Kyle Abraham at OtB

StefanDW — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 19:54:28 +0000

The performance takes its form from jazz’s correlated chorus—or more precisely Moby-Dick, though Stanley Crouch would suggest that it’s all the same, which is entirely appropriate. Abraham (the choreographer, not the Biblical Ishmael’s father) is chasing the elusive and the shape shifting. One scene demonstrates that hip-hop is very much a know-it-when-I-see-it affair only to be followed by dances that question what we know and what we’re seeing.

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Chasing the Elusive & Shape Shifting with Kyle Abraham at OtB