He founded his own company A.I.M by Kyle Abraham (formerly Abraham.In.Motion) in 2006 in New York City and has produced many original works for A.I.M such as The Radio Show (2010), Absent Matter (2015), Pavement (2012), Dearest Home (2017), Drive (2017), INDY (2018), Studies on Farewell (2019), and An Untitled Love (2021).
Abraham creates work for his company that draws from his personal experiences, often exploring themes of Black life, emotion, and the relationship between visual art, music and dance.
US venues include Fall for Dance Festival at New York City Center, Lincoln Center, Brooklyn Academy of Music, The Joyce Theater, The Los Angeles Music Center, Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival, Harlem Stage, On The Boards, Danspace Project, Dance Theater Workshop, Bates Dance Festival, and more, as well as The Andy Warhol Museum, The Byham and The Kelly-Strayhorn Theater in Abraham's hometown of Pittsburgh, PA. International venues include Théâtre de la Ville, Sadler's Wells, Maison de la Danse, Tanz Im August, Dublin's Project Arts Center, The Okinawa Prefectural Museum & Art Museum located in Okinawa Japan, and more.
It includes a wide variety of music, ranging from Bach to Sam Cooke, to express the themes of violence, love, and pain in Pavement.
Seen from the perspective of a group of friends struggling to stay together while their community is tearing apart, critics were struck by this piece, Andrew Boynton of The New Yorker saying: "Pavement is a hard, unforgiving thing, but for some people it's also home.
The Watershed premiered at New York Live Arts on September 23, 2014, with scenic design by visual artist Glenn Ligon and a score from a contemporary cello suite to Otis Redding.
In 2018, Abraham created Show Pony, a solo work set to musician Jlin's song "Hatshepsut" and as was described by Brian Seibert in The New York Times as capturing "the pressures of being on display and having to deliver.
It is a tender work featuring nine dancers set to a classical score by Nico Muhly, Sebastian Bartmann, and Ludwig van Beethoven.
In 2021, Abraham also developed the evening-length work Requiem: Fire in the Air of the Earth, in collaboration with pioneering producer, composer, and EDM artist Jlin.
Of this piece, Rebecca Bengal of Vogue writes: "What Abraham brings to Ailey is an avant-garde aesthetic, an original and politically minded downtown sensibility that doesn't distinguish between genres but freely draws on a vocabulary that is as much Merce and Martha as it is Eadweard Muybridge and Michael Jackson.
Abraham collaborated with New York City Ballet principal dancer Wendy Whelan to create a duet entitled The Serpent and the Smoke that premiered at Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival in 2013 and toured in 2016.
[14] In fall 2019, he choreographed Ash, a solo work for American Ballet Theatre Principal Dancer Misty Copeland; Only The Lonely, the last commissioned choreographic work selected by Paul Taylor himself before his passing for Paul Taylor Dance Company; and The Bystander, a new commission for Hubbard Street Dance Chicago to rave reviews.
In 2020 Misty and Kyle reunited for an intimate conversation as part of A.I.M's 2020 Virtual Homecoming Gala Sponsored by The Skin Deep program {The And}.
[15] Abraham premiered to be seen, a new solo for American Ballet Theatre Principal Dancer Calvin Royal III, for the 2020 virtual Fall For Dance Festival.
Abraham collaborated with New York City Ballet Principal Dancer Taylor Stanley on Ces noms que nous portons (2020), a Lincoln Center and NYCB commissioned solo; choreographed the music video for Sufjan Stevens' Sugar (2020); and choreographed Unto The End We Meet (2021), commissioned by the National Ballet of Cuba.
[16][17] Abraham returned to New York City Ballet in 2022, premiering Love Letter (on shuffle), a new work set to the music of James Blake at the company's Fall Fashion Gala.
[19][20][21] For American Ballet Theatre's Fall 2024 season, Abraham premiered a new work entitled Mercurial Son, set to the music of German electronic musician and visual artist Grischa Lichtenberger [de].