Dance Victoria - A.I.M by Kyle Abraham

Books to support your experience at Dance Victoria's presentation of a mixed program from A.I.M by Kyle Abraham on November 15 and 16, 2024.

Led by acclaimed choreographer and Artistic Director Kyle Abraham, A.I.M is galvanized by Black culture and history, and grounded in a conglomeration of unique perspectives. Abraham describes his work as a “post-modern gumbo” of movement exploration, with a vocabulary drawing inspiration from Modern, contemporary, ballet, and hip-hop.

Updated April 9, 2024
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As we see it : artists redefining Black identity
Amoako, Aida
Paper Book
Across photography, sculpture and painting, a new wave of Black artists is challenging persistent tropes in art and wider society to depict a richer portrait of the lives of Black people from all corners of the globe. As We See It brings together 30 image-makers creating visually...
Blk art : the audacious legacy of Black artists and models in Western art
Ware, Zaria
Paper Book
2024 NAACP Image Awards Nominee: Outstanding Non-Fiction A fun and fact-filled introduction to the dismissed Black art masters and models who shook up the world. Elegant. Refined. Exclusionary. Interrupted. The foundations of the fine art world are shaking....
Dancing with Merce Cunningham
Preger-Simon, Marianne
Paper Book
Dancing with Merce Cunningham is a buoyant, captivating memoir of a talented dancer's lifelong friendship with one of the choreographic geniuses of our time.Marianne Preger-Simon's story opens amid the explosion of artistic creativity that followed World War II. While immersed in the vibrant...
In the Black fantastic
Eshun, Ekow
Paper Book
A richly illustrated exploration of Black culture at its most wildly imaginative, artistically ambitious, and politically urgent. A richly illustrated exploration of Black culture at its most wildly imaginative and artistically ambitious, In the Black Fantastic assembles...
Nina Simone in comics
Adriansen, Sophie
Paper Book
This is the story of an emancipation, that of a young black and poor woman living in an America marked by segregation. This is the story of a fierce battle, that of a musician involved in the civil rights movement. This is the story of a long career, that of a pianist and singer as talented as...

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