Abby Z and The New Utility

"When the work débuted, last April, its sweaty intensity caused a stir… This reprise run offers another chance to see what won the young choreographer a Bessie Award." –The New Yorker

A hyper-kinetic contest of physical daring and extreme virtuosity, abandoned playground is the latest exhilarating performance by Abby Zbikowski, winner of the 2017 Juried Bessie Award and a major new force in contemporary dance.  Her high-adrenaline choreography combines elements of hip-hop, punk, West African, and street dance, praised by the New York Times as "an onslaught of thwacking arms, emphatic kicks, dizzying spins, swift somersaults, perilous balances and slippery contortions.”