2×4 (2025)
(Bay Area Premiere)
Choreography Kyle Abraham in collaboration with A.I.M
Music Shelley Washington
Music performed by Guy Dellacave and Thomas Giles
Lighting Design Dan Scully
Costume Design Reid Bartelme and Harriet Jung
Visual Art Devin B. Johnson

Performers
Saturday Evening: Mykiah Goree, Suzy Mondesir, William Okajima, Niya Smith
Sunday Matinee: Mykiah Goree, Suzy Mondesir, William Okajima, Olivia Wang

Shelley Washington, “Big Talk” courtesy of PSNY; “Black Mary” courtesy of People Places Records

2×4 was co-commissioned in part by Gagosian for Social Abstraction, the Joyce Theater’s Stephen and Cathy Weinroth Fund for New Work, the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, and the Moss Arts Center at Virginia Tech.

2×4 was created in part during a residency at the Weitz Center for Creativity at Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota.

If We Were a Love Song (2021)
Choreography Kyle Abraham in collaboration with A.I.M
Music performed and arranged by Otis Brown III featuring Luther S.Allison
and Liany Mateo
Vocals Crystal Monee Hall
Lighting Design Dan Scully
Costume Design Kyle Abraham and Karen Young

Performers
Black Is the Color of My True Love’s Hair
Saturday Evening: Mykiah Goree, Alysia Johnson, Suzy Mondesir,
Faith Joy Mondesire, Destin Morisset, William Okajima, Olivia Wang
Sunday Matinee: Mykiah Goree, Alysia Johnson, Faith Joy Mondesire,
Destin Morisset, William Okajima, Niya Smith, Olivia Wang

Keeper Of The Flame
Jayden Williams

Little Girl Blue
Saturday Evening: Suzy Mondesir
Sunday Matinee: Niya Smith

Don’t Explain
Faith Mondesire, Destin Morisset

Wild Is The Wind
William Okajima

Images
Alysia Johnson

Music List
“Black Is the Color of My True Love’s Hair”

“Keeper Of The Flame”
Written by Charles Derringer
EMI Grove Park Music Inc.; and Ninandy Music. All rights reserved.

“Little Girl Blue”
Written by Lorenz Hart and Richard Rodgers
Courtesy Universal Music Enterprises

“Don’t Explain”
Written by Arthur Herzog Jr. and Billie Holiday
© Songs of Universal, Inc. (BMI)

“Wild Is The Wind”
Written by Ned Washington and Dimitri Tiomkin
© 1957 Chappell $ Co., Inc. WC Music Corp. (ASCAP and unknown publisher.) All rights reserved.

“Images”
Written by Nina Simone
© 1964 WC Music Corp. (ASCAP). All rights reserved.

If We Were a Love Song was made possible by the National Endowment for the Arts.

The work was created in part through a residency at the Pillow Lab at Jacob’s Pillow; and during a residency at Kaatsbaan Cultural Park and LUMBERYARD, made possible by the Mellon Foundation.

The work was commissioned by American Dance Festival with support from the Doris Duke/SHS Foundations Award for New Works.

Intermission

The Gettin’ (2014)
Choreography Kyle Abraham in collaboration with A.I.M
Music Robert Glasper’s interpretation
of We Insist! – Max Roach’s Freedom Now Suite
Music performed by Otis Brown III featuring Luther S. Allison
and Liany Mateo
Vocals Charenee Wade
Arrangements and Original Compositions by Robert Glasper
Set Design Glenn Ligon
Lighting and Video Design Dan Scully
Costume Design Karen Young

Performers
Mykiah Goree, Alysia Johnson, Destin Morisset, William Okajima, Niya Smith, Olivia Wang, Jayden Williams

The Gettin’ was commissioned and produced by New York Live Arts through its Resident Commissioned Artist Program, with lead support from the Mellon Foundation.

The Gettin’ is supported, in part, by the New England Foundation for the Arts’ National Dance Project, with lead funding from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and the Mellon Foundation.

The Gettin’ was developed in part through a production residency at On the Boards with support from the National Dance Project, with funding from the Mellon Foundation.

Support for The Gettin’ was also provided to New York Live Arts for the commissioning of this work by MAP Fund.