10 November 2011  In consideration of Michael Jackson’s dancing. [...] 14 October 2011  Coming our way in Los Angeles, two fabulous choreographic talents in modern dance, Israeli born Hofesh Shechter, based in London and Pittsburgh guy Kyle Abraham, who’s now based in Brooklyn. [...] 24 April 2011  A last-minute glitch put the performance of “Prophets of Funk,” by David Dorfman Dance Company into jeopardy. The rights to use Sly & the Family Stone music were not secured. But, au derniere moment, the show went on! [...] 28 March 2011  Choreographer David Dorfman throws down the gauntlet with his concert-dance homage to the great interracial funk band of the sixties, Sly & the Family Stone. [...] 24 October 2010  Pittsburgh-born choreographer Kyle Abraham shares one of the Steel City’s great qualities: he’s real. [...] 18 October 2010 In a joyous ceremony that ended only one hour ago at Symphony Space on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, two West Coast choreographers were among those honored with Bessie dance awards. The awards returned with a vengeance following a one-year hiatus. Faye Driscoll of Los Angeles was recognized for her dance-theater piece “837 Venice Boulevard.” Accepting [...] 18 August 2010  I enjoyed Kyle Abraham’s “The Radio Show” at Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival. The dance commemorates the loss of Pittsburgh’s rhythm-and-blues radio station WAMO. [...] | |
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