"Between the two new works came Lang’s Garden Blue which, with its, richly-colored backdrop and costumes by Sarah Crowner (gorgeously lit by Nicole Pearce) and lush score by Antonin Dvorak (the first three movement of the “Dumky” trio) is as pleasing to the eye as ever. Here, the dancers are like streaks of color, human flowers, butterflies in a garden. With Garden Blue, Lang practically invents a new genre: ballet as abstract painting."
-Marina Harss, Dance Tabs, October 24, 2019
Sculpting With Bodies at American Ballet Theater
"The choreographer Jessica Lang, who is as interested in imagining shapes and compositions onstage as in inventing steps, makes her second work for the company." - Marina Harss, New York TImes, October 16, 2018
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"... it's a real theater piece, with a memorably peculiar conjunction of dance, music (Dvorak), and — especially memorable — design (by Sarah Crowner). A striking tension... derives from the contrast between Ms. Crowner’s strong visual colors (sky blue, lawn green, buttercup, fuchsia, tangerine) and the largely muted sound of the music, the first three movements of Dvorak’s “Dumky” piano trio in E minor; Ms. Lang’s choreography creates an odd harmony between them. She makes some surprisingly huge acrobatic lifts to quiet passages of music, she responds to the music’s changes of speed but sometimes works pointedly against its meter, and she gives the dancers linear configurations and arm positions that enrich the stage picture."
- Alastair Macaulay, New York Times
October 21, 2018
