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Droplet

Photos: Courtesy of Jessica Lang Dance and New York City Ballet Choreographic Institute

1, 2, 3, 4: Jessica Lang Dance performing i.n.k. Dancers: Kana Kimura, Clifton Brown. Photo: Sharen Bradford

5, 6, 7: New York City Ballet's Wendy Whelan and Craig Hall rehearsing Droplet. Photo: Rosalie O'Connor.

Droplet

Choreography: Jessica Lang

Original Music: Jakub Ciupinski

Costume Design: Elena Comendador

Lighting Design: Brandon Stirling Bake (NYCB) Nicole Pearce (Jessica Lang Dance)

Video Art: KUSHO by Shinichi Maruyama

Edited by Tetsushi Wakasugi and Jackson Notier

Length: 8:00

Dancers: 2

Droplet was commissioned by The New York Choreographic Institute 10th Anniversary Celebration, created for New York City Ballet dancers Wendy Whelan and Craig Hall and premiered in 2010. Lang expanded Droplet into a longer work, i.n.k. that was created during her Joyce Theater Residency, 2011, and performed by Jessica Lang Dance.
“Dancers Kana Kimura and Clifton Brown gave this exploration of physics an utter beauty, humanizing the clinging, the attraction and eventual inevitable separation, of molecules.”

- Laura Molzahn, Chicago Tribune, November 7, 2015

Link to review

“...won the biggest applause.”

- Alastair Macaulay, The New York Times, November 7, 2010

“This duet was simply exquisite.”

- Philip Gardner, Oberon's Grove, November 05, 2010

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