Photos: Takao Komaru
1: Dancer: Julie Fiorenza
2: Jessica Lang, Kanji Segawa, Kana Kimura, Hannan Misko
3. Dancers: Kana Kimura, Hannan Misko
4: Dancers: Kanji Segawa, Andrea Weber
5: Jessica Lang, Andrea Weber
6: Dancer: Andrea Weber
7: Dancers: Andrea Weber, Julie Fiorenza, Kanji Segawa
8: Dancers: Kana Kimura, Julie Fiorenza, Hannan Misko
Film: Excerpt from White, created by Jessica Lang and Shinichi Maruyama.
White (film)
Choreography: Jessica Lang
Music: Edvard Grieg
Costume Design: Elena Comendador
Collaboration: with Shinichi MaruyamaEdited by Tetsushi Wakasugi
Length: 10 minutes
Dancers: 6
White was created during Lang's Joyce Theater Residency, 2011.
World Premiere Cast: Julie Fiorenza, Kana Kimura, David Leventhal, Hannan Misko, Kanji Segawa, Andrea Weber
“a true "magic lantern" show unlike anything that could be mounted live on a real-time stage.”
- Lincoln Kaye, Vancouver Observer, November 1, 2016
“Perhaps never has a single work of dance unveiled so many possibilites.”
- Zachary Lewis, The Cleveland Plain Dealer, April 14, 2014
“A clever commentary on time, space, and interaction.”
- Zahra Sadjadi, Theater is Easy, February 23, 2014
“Using a more folky, weighted vocabulary, Lang conveyed the poignancy of dance - the heartbreaking desire for moments to stretch for as long as possible.”
- Andrew Boynton, The New Yorker, August 21, 2013
“White, a dance created on film, Lang and Maruyama experiment - quite successfully - with time and space, creating "a duet of slow motion and real time." The dancers are layered over one another, with some moving in slow motion, some moving in real time, and some moving superfast - and they interact and partner perfectly.”
- Julinda Lewis, Richmond Times Dispatch, September 16, 2012
“What makes Lang's work groundbreaking is that she hasn't just discovered some clever effects- she meticulously choreographs these on-screen interactions so expertly that we feel we are no longer watching film, or dance, or dance on film: it's like a completely new medium.”
- Tim Martin, Dance Europe, November 1, 2011
“Flashes of humor (as when certain passages are sped up giving a 'silent movie' feeling) alternate with more resonant images where the dancers appear to be moving thru a dreamscape.”
- Philip Gardner, Oberon's Grove, July 22, 2011
Performance History:
Jessica Lang Dance
July 22, 2011 in New York, NY
September 14, 2012 in Richmond, VA
January 18-20, 2013 in New Orleans, LA
August 7-11, 2013 in Becket, MA
September 20, 2013 in Houston, TX
November 7, 2013 in Storrs, CT
February 19-23, 2014 in New York, NY
April 5, 2014 in Park City, UT
April 12, 2014 in Cleveland, OH
May 30-31, 2014 in Beverly Hills, CA
October 23, 2014 in New Brunswick, NJ
November 11-13, 2014 in Tucson, AZ
November 15, 2014 in Wickenburg, AZ
November 20, 2014 in Mesa, AZ
March 7, 2015 in Rochester, NY
March 19-21, 2015 in Philadelphia, PA
March 28, 2015 in Washington, DC
April 9-10, 2015 Istanbul, Turkey
April 17, 2015 in Detroit, MI
April 25-26, 2015 in Queens, NY
July 22-24, 2015 in New York, NY
January 19, 2016 in Lexington, VA
January 30, 2016 in Birmingham, AL
February 9, 2016 in Manhattan, KS
February 11, 2016 in Des Moines, IA
February 13, 2016 in Minneapolis, MN
February 19, 2016 in Irvine, CA
June 14-19, 2016 in New York, NY
October 28-29 in Vancouver, BC
December 3, 2016 in Lafayette, LA
January 27-28, 2017 in Boston, MA
February 17-19, 2017 in Los Angeles, CA
April 20-22, 2017 in Tel Aviv, Israel
May 23, 2017 in Sante Fe, NM
October 20, 2017 in Annapolis, MD
December 2-3, 2017 in Moscow, Russia
February 2, 2018 in St. Joseph, MN
February 8, 2018 in Amherst, MA