Photos: Courtesy of Jessica Lang Dance
1: Jessica Lang Dance performing i.n.k. Dancer: Kana Kimura. Photo: Takao Komaru.
2, 3: Jessica Lang Dance performing i.n.k. Photo: Sharen Bradford
4, 5, 6, 7: Jessica Lang Dance performing i.n.k. Dancers: Kana Kimura, Clifton Brown. Photo: Sharen Bradford
8, 9: Jessica Lang Dance performing i.n.k. Photo: Sharen Bradford
i.n.k.
Choreography: Jessica Lang
Original Music: Jakub Ciupinski
Costume Design: Elena Comendador
Lighting Design: Nicole Pearce
Video Art: KUSHO by Shinichi Maruyama
Edited by Tetsushi Wakasugi and Jackson Notier
Length: 21 minutes
Dancers: 7
i.n.k. was created during Lang's Joyce Theater Residency, 2011.
World Premiere Cast: Clifton Brown, Jesse Dunham, Julie Firenza, Thomas Garrett, Kirk Henning, Kana Kimura, Claudia MacPherson
“Occasionally, choreographers embarrass themselves when they try integrating new technology into their works. Not Lang...[she] was at her most musical when syncing movement to a soundscape of gurgling, dripping and plopping noises that accompanied a cinematic backdrop of roving ink blots...The piece was over far too soon but was good to the last drop.”
- Rebecca Ritzel, The Washington Post, March 29, 2015
“a striking dance told in shadow and silhouette.”
- Jennifer Haaland, Mesa Performing Arts Examiner, November 21, 2014
““Innovative, emotional, and visually captivating compositions..."i.n.k.," inspired by the videos of Japanese artist Shinichi Maruyama, captures the slow motion images of ink and water colliding and suspended where the dancers and their shadows replicate, mimic, and collaborate with those gestures. In conjunction with the original score by composer Jakub Ciupinski which incorporates actual samples of water sounds, this piece was so utterly poignant and moving that I was surprised how captivated I could be by images, sounds, movements, and moments so abstract, simple, and peaceful.”
- Zahra Sadjadi, Theater is Easy, February 23, 2014
“Billed as splashes of ink and water, the sometimes humorous and consistently quirky "i.n.k." is a seamless interaction of dancers and video”
- Julinda Lewis, Richmond Times Dispatch, September 16, 2012
“The stark black-and-whiteness of the visual design gives the work a clean, modern look.”
- Tim Martin, Dance Europe, November 1, 2011
“a Diaghilevian union of music, art and dance.”
- Philip Gardner, Oberon's Grove, July 22, 2011
Performance History:
Jessica Lang Dance
July 22, 2011 in New York, NY
January 9, 2012 in New York, NY
January 24, 2012 in New York, NY
September 14, 2012 in Richmond, VA
January 18-20, 2013 in New Orleans, LA
August 7-11, 2013 in Becket, MA
August 16-17, 2013 in New York, NY
September 14, 2013 in Dallas, TX
September 20, 2013 in Houston, TX
November 7, 2013 in Storrs, CT
February 19-23, 2014 in New York, NY
April 5, 2014 in Park City, UT
April 12, 2014 in Cleveland, OH
May 30-31, 2014 in Beverly Hills, CA
October 23, 2014 in New Brunswick, NJ
November 11-13, 2014 in Tucson, AZ
November 15, 2014 in Wickenburg, AZ
November 20, 2014 in Mesa, AZ
January 31, 2015 in Lewisburg, PA
March 7, 2015 in Rochester, NY
March 19-21, 2015 in Philadelphia, PA
March 28, 2015 in Washington, DC
April 17, 2015 in Detroit, MI
April 25-26, 2015 in Queens, NY
July 22-24, 2015 in New York, NY
October 17-18, 2015 in Queens, NY
January 19, 2016 in Lexington, VA
January 30, 2016 in Birmingham, AL
February 9, 2016 in Manhattan, KS
February 11, 2016 in Des Moines, IA
February 13, 2016 in Minneapolis, MN
February 19, 2016 in Irvine, CA
June 14-19, 2016 in New York, NY
October 28-29 in Vancouver, BC
December 3, 2016 in Lafayette, LA
January 27-28, 2017 in Boston, MA
February 17-19, 2017 in Los Angeles, CA
April 20-22, 2017 in Tel Aviv, Israel
May 23, 2017 in Sante Fe, NM
October 20, 2017 in Annapolis, MD
December 2-3, 2017 in Moscow, Russia
February 2, 2018 in St. Joseph, MN
February 8, 2018 in Amherst, MA