"Ballet goers on the East Coast are now highly familiar with Lang, given her demand with major companies, but we’ve seen little of her work out west. “Ghost Variations” shows why she’s ascendant: the total package has quiet sophistication and integrity (the costumes by Jillian Lewis are especially fine, combining yards of Romantic-era tulle and patches of avant-garde asymmetry) but the choreography itself is the substance....There’s so much subtlety, too, in how the dancers drop in and out of unison; the whole ballet feels like a ball of mercury, and you marvel at how the atoms cling and separate, morphing the total shape. In short, this is a ballet to watch many times."
-Rachel Howard, fjordreview.com, November 12, 2020
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"There are too many UGH SO GORGEOUS moments to mention, but you have to love the male trio’s entrechat dix-huit, and the space given to Postlewaite’s graceful promenade en arabesque, leg and arm cantilevered, a precious few seconds of personal equilibrium.
- Michael van Baker, The Sunbreak Magazine, November 13, 2020
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"In Britain, Birmingham Royal Ballet audiences still purr with delight at the thought of Lang’s delightful Lyric Pieces and Wink, made for the company during David Bintley’s directorship. Her new Ghost Variations would have them sighing with happy contentment. It’s a compelling and delicious evocation of the music."
- David Mead, SeeingDance.com, November 12, 2020
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"It’s a neoclassical work with an eerie twist: the dancers often share the stage with ghost partners, dancing in silhouette behind a scrim, or with their own shadows."
- Moira McDonald, The Seattle Times, November 12, 2020
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“[Ghost Variations] may be choreographer Jessica Lang’s finest ballet to date...masterful in all the ways a ballet might aspire to be. It had adroit technical dancing and heartfelt emotion that elevated it to high art and even higher beauty. Ghost Variations, and PNB’s performance of it, was worthy of any stage in the world including its biggest, the Internet…bravo!”
- Steve Sucato, Exploredance.com, February 27, 2021
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"Jessica Lang’s “Ghost Variations,” set to the piano music of Clara and Robert Schumann, was part of last year’s digital season; now it’s been restaged for an audience rather than a camera, and it makes the transition beautifully. It’s a too-brief little gem, with black-clad dancers whirling with each other and with shadows cast upstage, often quite wittily."
- Moira McDonald, The Seattle Times, November 8, 2021
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"a striking piece. The women (Macy, Biasucci, Generosa, Murphy), especially, are a huge presence in this ballet. Strong and daring, watching them you think this is what dance is really all about."
-Gigi Berardi, Western Washington University, November 25, 2021
