REVIEWS

The dress Irina Dvorovenko wore during Jessica Lang’s Splendid Isolation III was a show-stopper at the Festival Ballet Theater 20th anniversary gala.

The U.S. premiere of Jessica Lang's "Splendid Isolation III" was a perfect fit for Dvorovenko's high theatricality and Beloserkovsky's passionate physicality. Dvorovenko deftly manipulated a stunning, tent-like skirt, a symbol of both imprisonment and enshrinement. She shed the costume finally, and they prevailed as a couple.

By Laura Bleiberg
The Orange County Register
March 31, 2008

 

Baroque Fidgets Sublimated Into Joyous, Flowing Swirls

Jennifer Dunning
NY Times
March 2008
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“In her latest commissioned work for the Richmond Ballet, choreographer Jessica Lang brought paintings to life with Woman and the Sea: A Tribute to Will Barnet … and the result offered several visually stunning moments.”

Lea Marshall
Dance Magazine
August 2007
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“Following up on last year's heralded work, "From Foreign Lands and People," is Jessica Lang's "De Profundis," an abstract 12-member ensemble piece set to the haunting spiritual music of Estonian composer Arvo Pärt. From it's stunning opening image of an angelic body in diaphanous robes descending to earth to its mirror image of ascension at the end, Lang's piece grabs us with its flowing beauty and reverential expressions, covering the full gamut of emotions from anguish and melancholy to soulful aspirations.”

From ColoradoDrama.com
Colorado Ballet
March 2007

 

“Choreographer Jessica Lang’s duet, Splendid Isolation II had so strong an air about it, one yearned for repeated opportunities to bask in the medieval music and to ponder the significance of the woman in the white dress that covers the entire stage.”

Tim Martin
Dance Europe Magazine
January 2007

 

Jessica Lang’s Elysian movement poem “To Familiar Spaces In Dream”

Cathy Harding
C-Ville Weekly
March 2006
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“Jessica Lang’s operatic apocalyptic vision to Pete M. Wyer’s score in her “Senbazuru” utilizes the resources available at Juilliard to grand effect.  Singers appear in suspended platforms, folded cranes inhabit the air, and the formidable dancing cast is allowed to swallow the stage space in sweeping attacks … She impresses by the range of dynamics, the urge of onrushing movement in ever-changing and surprising group formations and has me spellbound with the sheer beauty of her ambitious form of dance theatre.”

Henning Rubsam
Dance For You Magazine
On The Juilliard Centennial Celebration Performance
May/June 2006

Colorado Ballet steps up with key premiere at Vail

By Glenn Giffin
Special to The Denver Post
DenverPost.com
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“To Familiar Spaces in Dream digs deep, charting rich new visual territory for the company and its audience.”

Lea Marshall
Ground Zero Community News, Online review
November 2005
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From Foreign Lands and People; :
Foreign lands' translates beautifully

By Marc Shulgold, Rocky Mountain News
August 5, 2005
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“A Maiden's Hymn by Jessica Lang was a thoughtful work about death, about how it can be cruel, about how it can be comforting! At the curtain call I was surprised to see a youthful Jessica Lang take her bows.  A young woman wise beyond her years, it would seem.”

Tim Martin
Dance Europe
On Richmond Ballet New York Season at the Joyce Theater, NYC
May 2005

“Seventeen students from Ballet Theatre's Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis School joined 12 Studio [Company] dancers in Jessica Lang 's Veiled Calling to music by Zbigniew Preisner. All looked impressively intense in some sweeping ensembles.”

Jack Anderson
New York Times
On ABT Studio Company 10^th Anniversary Performance at Jazz at Lincoln Center, NYC
April 23, 2005

“All we have to do is see the music of Astor Piazzolla listed as accompaniment and we know that we will be in for a sultry time.  Oblivion begins innocently enough with focus on extensive, original arm formations as the company performs Let Go and Let Me Go.

With the second movement, A War of Looks, turbulence commences to echoes of flamenco and tango rhythms.  Antagonisms are rampant and tenderness is out of the picture as the eternal battle between male and female takes over.  Touching sensitivity comes to reign with John Michael Schert's And Some Looked Back.  The finale, with all company members, is, as anticipated, a blockbuster.

Jennie Schulman
Backstage
ON ABT Studio Company's Winter Season at the Danny Kaye Playhouse, NYC
April 20, 2001