BIOGRAPHY

Since 1999, Jessica Lang has been creating choreography extensively for ballet and modern companies across the US and abroad.  She has created and restaged her work on companies including Joffrey Ballet, American Ballet Theatre, Colorado Ballet, Kansas City Ballet, Richmond Ballet, Cincinnati Ballet, Washington Ballet, Pennsylvania Ballet, Ailey II, ABT II, Hubbard Street 2, Ballet de Monterey, and New York City Ballet’s Choreographic Institute, among others.  Lang also created a new work on San Francisco Ballet’s Yuan Yuan Tan and Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater’s Clifton Brown, commissioned by TITAS in Dallas, TX.   American Ballet Theatre principals Irina Dvorovenko and Maxim Beloserkovsky performed Lang’s work Splendid Isolation III at the Metropolitan Opera House for ABT’s opening night gala in 2008 and currently perform this work in galas around the world.  She has received unique commissions including from the Dallas Museum of Art for its Henri Matisse exhibition as well as The Juilliard School for its Centennial Celebration Concert. In 2008 Brooklyn Center for the Performing Arts presented An Evening of Works by Jessica Lang, a triple bill programperformed by Richmond Ballet.  Commercially, Lang has worked for BMW International Industrials, Cirque du Soleil and Australian pop singer, Sia.  Lang has received grants from numerous organizations including the NEA, the Choo San Goh Foundation and The Jerome Robbins Foundation.

Lang has also choreographed at universities and prestigious institutions including The Juilliard School, NYU Tisch School of the Arts, The Ailey School/Fordham BFA Program, Texas Christian University, Goucher College, University of Richmond, Bucknell University, Princeton University, Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing Arts, Interlochen Arts Academy, and Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, among others.  Lang is on the faculty of American Ballet Theatre’s Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis School and their summer intensive programs in NYC.

Lang is a graduate of The Juilliard School, under the direction of Benjamin Harkarvy.  Upon graduation, she became a member of Twyla Tharp's company "THARP!" where she performed in major dance festivals around the world.  She also worked with Ms. Tharp in her Diabelli Project that premiered in Palermo, Italy in 1998.

She lives in New York City.

Upcoming Commissions include new works for Cincinnati Ballet, Morphoses for the Guggenheim Museum’s Works and Process series, and a premiere for the New York Choreographic Institute’s 10th Anniversary Celebration performance where Lang will create on New York City Ballet dancers Wendy Whelan and Craig Hall.