Live Arts Bard
Abby Z and The New Utility
abandoned playground
March 31, 2018
Live Arts Bard
March 31, 2018
"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.”