Kyle Abraham

Photo: Tatiana Wills.

Kyle Abraham, Founder and Artistic Director of A.I.M by Kyle Abraham, has premiered his work to international audiences and acclaim since 2006.  Abraham has been profiled in Document Journal, Vanity Fair, Ebony, Harper’s Bazaar,  Kinfolk, O Magazine, Paper, Surface, W Magazine, Vogue, and Vogue UK, among many other publications. He is the proud recipient of a National Dance Critics Award for Choreography (2024, Are You in Your Feelings?/ Alvin Ailey Dance Theater), Dance Magazine Award (2022), Princess Grace Statue Award (2018), Doris Duke Award (2016), and MacArthur Fellowship (2013). In addition to performing and developing new works for his company, Abraham has been commissioned by a wide variety of dance companies, including Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, The National Ballet of Cuba, New York City Ballet, Paul Taylor American Modern Dance, and The Royal Ballet. In 2024, Abraham is premiering two evening-length works: Cassette Vol. 1 in Hamburg, German in August, and Dear God, Make Me Beautiful at the Park Avenue Armory in New York City in December.

Since 2021, Abraham has served as the Claude and Alfred Mann Endowed Professor in Dance at The University of Southern California (USC) Glorya Kaufman School of Dance. Abraham sits on the advisory board for Dance Magazine and Hubbard Street Dance Chicago. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the inaugural Black Genius Brain Trust, and the inaugural cohort of the Dorchester Industries Experimental Design Lab, a partnership between the Prada Group, Theaster Gates Studio, Dorchester Industries, and Rebuild Foundation.

Abraham has led and curated several performance series including the Danspace Project (2024 / 50th anniversary season) and Lincoln Center’s Summer for the City (2023, 2022), among others.  In 2020, Abraham was the first ever guest editor for Dance Magazine.