Photos: Courtesy of Jessica Lang Dance

1,3,5: Jessica Lang Dance performing us/we. Photo by Vikki Sloviter

2: Jessica Lang Dance performing us/we. Dancers Kana Kimura and Milan Misko. Photo by Vikki Sloviter

4: Jessica Lang Dance performing us/we. Dancers Rachel Secrest and Eve Jacobs. Photo by Vikki Sloviter

Video: From us/we projection creation in collaboration with José Parlá. Filmed at Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, 2018, Jessica Lang Dance.

us/we

Choreography: Jessica Lang
Music: David Lang, RAM JAM, El Michels Affair

Visual Artist and Scenic Designer: José Parlá
Costume Design: Moriah Black
Lighting Design: Stuart Wilson
Video Creations: José Parlá, Moriah Black and Jessica Lang
Projections Designer and Engineer: Anja Hose
Video Coordinator: Milan Misko
Sound Designer and Audio Engineer: Hayat Dominguez
Technical Director: Gregory Rowland

Length: 27 minutes

Number of Dancers: 9

This work was originally created for and produced by Jessica Lang Dance,premiered in 2018 and co-commissioned by Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign.

Premiered November 30, 2018 at the Zellerbach Theatre at the Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts, Philadelphia, PA

World Premiere Cast: Patrick Coker, Julie Fiorenza, Eve Jacobs, Kana Kimura, Laura Mead, Milan Misko, Thomas Ragland, Rachel Secrest, Jammie Walker
"The piece moved beyond the hierarchy that makes lighting and scenic design accessories to the dance. Lang, artist José Parlá, and costume designer Moriah Black described a process so collaborative that some of the costumes were made from the cloths Parlá used to clean up after painting. The stains from his paint make the patterns on the cloth. The result was my favorite piece of the night: not just a dance but a multimedia event. Parlá’s video art seemed to partner the dancers."

- Camille Bacon-Smith, Broad Street Review, December 2, 2018

Link to review

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