Photos: Courtesy of Jessica Lang Dance
1, 2, 4: Jessica Lang Dance performing Lines Cubed. Photo: Takao Komaru.
3: Jessica Lang Dance performing Lines Cubed. Dancers: Claudia MacPherson, Milan Misko. Photo: Takao Komaru
5: Jessica Lang Dance performing Lines Cubed. Dancers: Eve Jacobs, Milan Misko. Photo: Christopher Roesing
6: Jessica Lang Dance performing Lines Cubed. Dancer: Laura Mead. Photo: Sharen Bradford
7: Jessica Lang Dance performing Lines Cubed. Photo: Sharen Bradford
8: Jessica Lang Dance performing Lines Cubed. Photo: Kazu
Lines Cubed
Choreography: Jessica Lang
Music: John Metcalfe, Thomas Metcalf
Set Design: Molo Designers, Stephanie Forsythe and Todd MacAllen in collaboration with Jessica Lang
Costumes: Lisa Choules
Lighting Design: Nicole PearceLength: 20 minutes
Dancers: 9
This piece was originally created for and produced by Jessica Lang Dance and premiered at The Duke Theater, Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival on July 25, 2012.
World Premiere Cast: Clifton Brown, Julie Fiorenza, Thomas Garrett, Kirk Henning, Kana Kimura, Claudia MacPherson, Laura Mead, Milan Misko, Maggie Small
“the effect was fascinating”
- Rebecca Ritzel, The Washington Post, March 29, 2015
“The use of symmetry, clean lines, and primary colors set against a white stage offered the perfect dichotomy to a work that evoked a contemporary, dangerous feel. Lines Cubed had an artistic texture that made the audience feel as if we were watching a moving painting.”
- Tess Alfano, BroadwayWorld.com, February 24, 2014
“geometry in motion”
- Adam Castañeda, HoustonPress.com, September 23, 2013
“Lang, whose New York City-based troupe made its full-company debut at Jacob's Pillow on July 25, is a master of visual composition. It's easy to imagine her sketching as she choreographs, or carefully arranging her dancers one by one, like a photographer or a still-life painter. In Lang's case, of course, it's moving life. Lines Cubed, one of two ensemble works the company performed at the Pillow, looks like the physical embodiment of a Mondrian color-block painting. The clever set design (on which Lang collaborated with Stephanie Forsythe and Todd MacAllen) divides the stage and backdrop into panels of white and primary color. Lang organizes the dance in a similarly crisp fashion, with each section marked by the hue of the lighting and costumes....As she tends to do, Lang draws the piece to a close with a picture-perfect tableau: a symmetrical arrangement of the full ensemble, each color represented.”
- Tresca Weinstein, Dance Magazine, August 1, 2012
“there were arresting tableaux, especially at the end, when all the dancers froze, forming a three-dimensional Mondrian.”
- Bess Hochstein, The Rural Intelligence, July 28, 2012
Performance History:
Jessica Lang Dance
July 25-29, 2012 in Becket, MA
January 14, 2013 in New York, NY
January 18-20, 2013 in New Orleans, LA
September 14, 2013 in Dallas, TX
September 20, 2013 in Houston, TX
February 19-23, 2014 in New York, NY
April 5, 2014 in Park City, UT
April 12, 2014 in Cleveland, OH
May 23, 2014 in Guatemala City, Guatemala
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 9-10, 2015 in Istanbul, Turkey
April 14, 2015 in Easton, PA
April 17, 2015 in Detroit, MI
October 10, 2015 in Catskill, NY
October 17-18, 2015 in Queens, NY
January 19, 2016 in Lexington, VA
February 9, 2016 in Manhattan, KS
February 13, 2016 in Minneapolis, MN
April 2, 2016 in Lyndon Center, VT
April 12, 2016 in Tulsa, OK
July 26, 2016 in San Luis Potosi, Mexico
July 29-30, 2016 in Mexico City, Mexico
October 28-29 in Vancouver, BC
November 18-19, 2016 in Victoria, BC
December 1, 2016 in Meridian, MS
December 3, 2016 in Lafayette, LA
February 8, 2017 in Boone, NC
February 9, 2017 in Clemson, SC
February 28, 2017 in East Lansing, MI
March 7, 2017 in Interlochen, MI
April 14, 2017 in Bloomsburg, PA
October 7, 2017 in Long Beach, CA
October 21, 2017 in Reading, PA
Janaury 20, 2018 in Danville, KY
February 10, 2018 in New Bedford, MA
March 8-10, 2018 in Portland, OR