Kyle Abraham
Kyle Abraham (Artistic Director and Founder; he/him) has premiered his work to international audiences and acclaim since 2006. Abraham has been profiled in CERO, Document Journal, Ebony, Harper’s Bazaar, Kinfolk, O Magazine, Paper, Surface, Vanity Fair, Vogue, Vogue UK, and W Magazine, among many other publications. In 2025, he was nominated for a Olivier Award for Best New Dance Production and the Rose Prize for International Dance for An Untitled Love (Sadler’s Wells), and he is the proud recipient of a 2024 National Dance Critics Award for Choreography (Are You in Your Feelings at the Alvin Ailey Dance Theater), Dance Magazine Award (2022), Princess Grace Statue Award (2018), Doris Duke Award (2016), and the 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 American Ballet Theatre, 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 premiered three new works to much acclaim: the evening-length work Cassette Vol. 1 in Hamburg, Germany; Mercurial Son for American Ballet Theatre; and Dear Lord, Make Me Beautiful at the Park Avenue Armory, which Jennifer Homans of the New Yorker called an “Extraordinary Dance Memoir.” In 2025, Abraham premiered acclaimed new works including 2×4 and Wrecka Stow for ABT as part of Misty Copland’s farewell performance, and was the choreographer for the new Xtravaganza musical. Abraham also choreographed Copland in the Cynthia Erivo short-form film, No Good Deed, as part of the promotion of the film Wicked: For Good.
Abraham has led and curated several performance series, including the Danspace Project (2024 /50th anniversary season) and Lincoln Center’s Summer for the City (2022, 2023), among others. In 2020, he was the first-ever guest editor for Dance Magazine.
Since 2021, he has served as the Claude and Alfred Mann Endowed Professor in Dance at the University of Southern California Glorya Kaufman School of Dance. Abraham also 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.