Conversations on Dance with Kyle Abraham & Melissa Toogood

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CONVERSATIONS ON DANCE WITH KYLE ABRAHAM & MELISSA TOOGOOD

A major highlight for the Vail Dance Festival every year is the NOW: Premieres program, a jam-packed evening of ten newly commissioned dances with an array of artists that only the Vail Dance Festival could manage to bring together. Internationally acclaimed choreographers and artists Kyle Abraham and Melissa Toogood join this live recording of the ‘Conversations On Dance’ podcast to talk about their process this year creating two brand new works for this celebrated evening.

A limited number of tickets are sold to each LIVE recording of Conversations on Dance during the Vail Dance Festival. The episodes are released at a later date and listeners can enjoy them through any podcast app or listen online at conversationsondancepod.com.

Generously Underwritten by the Town of Vail.

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Meet the Performers

Kyle Abraham

KYLE ABRAHAM (Founder and Artistic Director, A.I.M by Kyle Abraham; He/Him) has premiered his work to international audiences and acclaim since 2006. Abraham has been proled in Document Journal, Vanity Fair, Ebony, Harper’s Bazaar, Kinfolk, O Magazine, Paper, Surface, Vogue & Vogue UK, W Magazine, 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 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 Theater in October and in December, “Dear Lord, Make Me Beautiful” at the Park Avenue Armory, which Jennifer Homans of The New Yorker called “Extraordinary Dance Memoir.” 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 rst ever guest editor for Dance Magazine. He serves as the Claude and Alfred Mann Endowed Professor in Dance at The University of Southern California (USC) Glorya Kaufman School of Dance (2021-). 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.

Melissa Toogood // Artist-In-Residence

Melissa Toogood has appeared on the Vail stage since 2015. She is a New York Dance and Performance Award (Bessie) winning, internationally recognized dancer and master teacher celebrated for her work most notably with the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, where...

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Conversations on Dance with Kyle Abraham & Melissa Toogood

9:30 am

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CONVERSATIONS ON DANCE WITH KYLE ABRAHAM & MELISSA TOOGOOD

Ticketing

MANOR VAIL PINEY BALLROOM | 9:30AM – 10:20AM

TICKETS ARE ON SALE NOW!

Meet the Performers

Kyle Abraham

Kyle Abraham

Melissa Toogood // Artist-In-Residence

Melissa Toogood // Artist-In-Residence

Community Arts Access