Photos and Video: Courtesy of Jessica Lang Dance
1,2,3,5: Jessica Lang Dance performing Her Road. Photo by Milan Misko
4: Jessica Lang Dance performing Her Road. Dancers: Julie Fiorenza and Eve Jacobs.Photo by Milan Misko
Video: Jessica Lang Dance performing Her Road, DanceCleveland, the State Theater at Playhouse Square, 2017.
Her Road
Choreography: Jessica Lang
Music: Ludwig van Beethoven
Set Concept and Design: Jessica Lang and Jim LangCostume Design and Hand Painted by Jim Lang
Lighting Design: Nicole Pearce
Length: 13 minutes
Number of Dancers: 4
This work was originally created for and produced by Jessica Lang Dance and premiered in 2017.
Premiere Cast: Julie Fiorenza, Eve Jacobs, Kana Kimura, Laura Mead
“The next piece is Lang’s latest choreography, Her Road. The inspiration for the piece was Georgia O’Keeffe, and this is evident in the four female dancers’ costumes (simple white leotards with long and light skirts with blue gradation on the hems, like one of O’Keeffe’s painting of morning glory) and their poses—layers on layers creating beautiful patterns. The music Lang uses—Beethoven’s Spring Sonata for Violin and Piano—may also have been a strong inspiration for this dance. The dancers’ movements interact with each other and to the music as the violin and piano interact and harmonize. It is a ballet of women with passion, blooming like a flower in the spring.”
- Eri Yoneda, phindie, April 7, 2017
“Her Road,” a dance for four women inspired by Georgia O’Keeffe’s Road series, featured music by Beethoven. The costumes, designed by Jim Lang, evoked O’Keeffe’s color palette, with a deep turquoise border on the hem of a pale and filmy dress, but the dance itself felt more like an impromptu celebration on a summer day. It was lovely”
- Camille Bacon-Smith, Broad Street Review, April 6, 2017
"I was inspired to create a piece based on Georgia O'Keeffe - the woman as well as the artist," Lang said. "I wanted to make a point about the American tradition of women making great art."
- Michael Wade Simpson, The Santa Fe New Mexican, May 19, 2017
Performance History:
Jessica Lang Dance
March 4, 2017 in Cleveland, OH
March 10-11, 2017 in New York, NY
April 5-9, 2017 in Philadelphia, PA
May 23, 2017 in Santa Fe, NM
February 2, 2018 in St. Joseph, MN
February 10, 2018 in New Bedford, MA
March 17, 2018 in Madison, WI
March 24, 2018 in Brookfield, WI
April 14, 2018 in Portland, ME
April 21, 2018 in Burlington, VT