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Mendelssohn / Incomplete

Photos: Courtesy of Jessica Lang Dance

1, 2:Jessica Lang Dance performing Mendelssohn / Incomplete. Photo: Sharen Bradford.

3: Jessica Lang Dance performing Mendelssohn / Incomplete. Dancers: Claudia MacPherson, Todd Burnsed. Photo: Sharen Bradford.

Mendelssohn / Incomplete

Choreography: Jessica Lang

Music: Felix Mendelssohn
Costume Design: Elena Comendador
Lighting Design: Nicole Pearce

Length: 8 minutes

Dancers: 6

Mendelssohn / Incomplete was created during Lang's Joyce Theater Residency, 2011.

World Premiere Cast: Clifton Brown, Julie Fiorenza, Thomas Garrett, Kirk Henning, Kirk Henning, Claudia MacPherson
“Mendelssohn/Incomplete" was completed by the dance itself. That is, the six flowing dancers, in waves of muted plum and slate gray, actually became a representation of the music.”

- Jennifer Haaland, Mesa Performing Arts Examiner, November 21, 2014

“Mendelssohn/Incomplete" has a natural, unforced symmetry that is unafraid to acknowledge the weightiness of the human body”

- Julinda Lewis, Richmond Times Dispatch, September 16, 2012

“The partnering work is genteel, but with spirit, and present throughout her work is a mesmerizing use of dynamics- simple kneeling or lunging becomes so much more when rendered by her dancers in varying, unearthly qualities.”

- Tim Martin, Dance Europe, November 1, 2011

“These dancers moved seamlessly thru Jessica's choreographic passages all of which stemmed naturally and gracefully from the flow of this poignantly expressive music.”

- Philip Gardner, Oberon's Grove, July 22, 2011