Photos: Courtesy of Jessica Lang Dance

1,4,5,7: Jessica Lang Dance performing This Thing Called Love. Photo: Rachel Neville

2,3: Jessica Lang Dance performing This Thing Called Love. Featured dancer: Milan Misko. Photo: Rachel Neville

6: Jessica Lang Dance performing This Thing Called Love. Dancers: Julie Fiorenza and Thomas Ragland. Photo: Rachel Neville

This Thing Called Love

Choreography: Jessica Lang
Music: Tony Bennett
Set Design: Jessica Lang
Set Concept: Jessica Lang
Costume Design: Bradon McDonald
Lighting Design: Nicole Pearce

Length: 22 minutes

Number of Dancers: 9

This work was originally created for and produced by Jessica Lang Dance and premiered in 2018, commissioned by The Performing Arts Center at Purchase College, Director Seth Soloway. Special thanks to Benedetto Arts and RPM Productions for helping make this work possible.

World Premiere Cast: Patrick Coker, Julie Fiorenza, John Harnage, Eve Jacobs, Kana Kimura, Milan Misko, Thomas Ragland, Rachel Secrest, Jammie Walker
"As anyone who has heard Tony Bennett sing can confirm, there’s something tangible about the sounds he creates, something you can’t quite put into words. It’s as if you need to jump into another realm to search for better adjectives, or in the case of choreographer Jessica Lang, you forget words, switch mediums altogether, and describe with dance what words cannot."

- By Kaitlin Wright, Voice of OC, October 1, 2018

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Performance History:

Jessica Lang Dance

May 5, 2018 in Purchase, NY

September 20, 2018 in Fayatteville, AR

September 28, 2018 in Irvine, CA

November 3, 2018 in Tivoli, NY

November 7, 2018 in Gainsville, FL

November 12, 2018 in Charlotte, NC

November 30- December 1, 2018 in Philadelphia, PA

January 11-12, 2019 in Lakeworth, FL

January 24, 2019 in East Lansing, MI

Janaury 26, 2019 in Pittsburgh, PA

February 1, 2019 in Ogden, UT

February 7, 2019 in Denver, CO

February 21, 2019 in Santa Barbara, CA

February 28 - March 2, 2019 in San Francisco, CA

March 5, 2019 in Malibu, CA

March 14, 2019 in Aiken, SC

April 10, 2019 in Astoria, Queens

April 14, 2019 in Virginia Beach, VA

Jessica Lang
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