BIOGRAPHY

Jessica Lang has created and restaged her choreography on companies including American Ballet Theatre, Colorado Ballet, Richmond Ballet, Cincinnati Ballet, Kansas City Ballet, Pennsylvania Ballet, Washington Ballet, Milwaukee Ballet, Saint Louis Ballet, ABT II, Ailey II, Hubbard Street 2, Ballet de Monterey, and New York City Ballet’s Choreographic Institute, among others. Her choreography is consistently being performed throughout the US and has toured abroad including Europe, Asia, Central America, and South Africa.  She has also received unique commissions from the Dallas Museum of Art to create a new work for their Henri Matisse Exhibition as well as from The Juilliard School for its Centennial Celebration Concert.  In 2008 Brooklyn Center for the Performing Arts presented An Evening of Works by Jessica Lang performed by Richmond Ballet marking her triple bill premiere in NYC.  Currently, ABT Principals Irina Dvorovenko and Maxim Beloserkovsky are performing her work Splendid Isolation III in ballet galas around the world including for ABT’s opening night gala at the Metropolitan Opera House in 2008. Commercially, Ms. Lang has choreographed for BMW International Industrials as well as for Cirque du Soleil when she served as the evaluator for their NYC auditions. She has received numerous grants for her choreography including three NEA grants in sole support of new creations and a Choo-San Goh award.

Ms. Lang has 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, Bucknell University, Princeton University, Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing Arts, Interlochen Arts Academy, Kaatsbaan International’s Extreme Ballet, Perry-Mansfield and Hubbard Street Dance Chicago. She is on faculty at the Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis School at American Ballet Theatre as well as for ABT’s summer programs in NYC.

Ms. 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.

Upcoming premieres include Crossed for Joffrey Ballet, A Solo in Nine Parts for Kansas City Ballet and March for the University of Richmond work for their 25th Anniversary Celebration in 2010.