"Pages is yet another unique and intelligent contemporary work from PNB resident choreographer Jessica Lang... Set to a mix of looped spoken word recordings and music from Pulitzer Prize-winning composer David Lang, Pages follows ten dancers through a series of duets, solos, and collective movements that illustrate the complexity of the creative process...It is a gentle trip through the mind of an artist, a series of moments in a fleeting process that usually goes uncaptured, let alone presented as the work of art itself. Pages is deeply personal yet not self-indulgent... I’d pay to see it 20 more times."
- Melody Datz Hansen, Seattle Magazine, September 28, 2026
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"Jessica Lang’s world premiere of Pages is a thought-provoking and atmospheric reflection on the creative process... It’s a world away from Serenade, and yet, in their inventiveness, the two works are surprisingly compatible neighbors. Like Serenade, there is no clear narrative to follow, but images emerge that stir and conjure, lingering days later as visceral metaphor...Pages is a work that gains beauty with every viewing. Filled with unusual physicality, things our eyes have never consumed wake us up in a way with the possibilities of how bodies can come into movement together."
- Louise Greer, Seattle Ballet Journal, October 1, 2026
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“I’m convinced that the choreography is both emotional and very clever… Her artistic future seems limitless”
- Marcie Sillman, And Another Thing, October 11, 2026
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"In a daze of insistent motion, Lang reminds us that her work always reveals some feeling or image we’ve never gleaned from a piece of dance before...Lang captures a nearly too-intimate reality in which we recognize ourselves; all the beauty and the weaknesses of being a person drawn to create."
- Louise Greer, Seattle Ballet Journal, October 10, 2026
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