Photos: Courtesy of Jessica Lang Dance

1: Jessica Lang Dance performing Scape. Photo: Kyle Manfredi

2: Jessica Lang Dance performing Scape. Photo: Chistopher Jones

3: Jessica Lang Dance performing Scape. Photo: Kyle Manfredi

4: Jessica Lang Dance performing Scape. Dancers: Kirk Henning, Laura Mead. Photo: Kyle Manfredi

5, 6: Jessica Lang Dance performing Scape. Photo: Chistopher Jones

7, 8: Jessica Lang Dance performing Scape. Photo: Ilgin Yanmaz

Scape

Choreography: Jessica Lang
Music: John Adams

Lighting Design: Nicole Pearce

Length: 35 minutes

Number of Dancers: 9

This work was originally created for and produced by Jessica Lang Dance, premiered in 2014 and commissioned by the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and the National Symphony Orchestra, Christoph Eschenbach, Music Director, as part of 2014 NEW MOVES: symphony + dance.

World Premiere May 16, 2014 at The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts

World Premiere Cast: Clifton Brown, Todd Burnsed, Julie Fiorenza, Sarah Haarmann, Kirk Henning, Kana Kimura, Claudia MacPherson, Laura Mead, Milan Misko
“Scape, an absorbing and consistently surprising dance. Lang has a gift for conveying emotion with exquisite simplicity...The dancers also humanized the Adams concerto, warming up a cerebral, often astringent score. Once they took control of the stage, they jiggled and spun to the musical storm, turning the space into a carnival; they glided with lighthearted ease as the music slashed and churned. How energizing it was to see these fearless frolickers - our ideal selves - waltzing around, taming that wrathful sound so that it, too, finally swirled with equal joy...At the end, as the dancers bowed to the enthusiastic audience response, no one applauded them more heartily than the beaming Josefowicz.”

- Sarah Kaufman, Washington Post, May 17, 2014

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