Jessica Lang

Guest Choreographer

Since 1999, Jessica Lang has been choreographing extensively for ballet and modern companies across the US and abroad.  She is noted for her artfully crafted, emotionally engaging work and has been described for having “established a reputation for concocting ingenious choreographic interactions between dancing bodies and the movements of striking set and costume pieces.”  She has created work more than 75 works on companies including Joffrey Ballet, Kansas City Ballet, Richmond Ballet, Cincinnati Ballet, Colorado 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.  She has also received commissions from The Dallas Museum of Art and The Guggenheim Museum.  Lang has choreographed for universities including The Juilliard School, NYU Tisch School of the Arts, The Ailey/Fordham BFA Program, Texas Christian University, University of Richmond, Southern Methodist University, Princeton University, and Goucher College.  For American Ballet Theatre, she is on the faculty of the Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis School, the ABT / NYU Steinhart Masters Program, the summer intensive programs in NYC as well as a teaching artist for the Make A Ballet program.  Commercially, Lang has worked for BMW International Industrials, Cirque du Soleil and Australian pop singer, Sia.

Lang has received numerous grants from organizations including the NEA, the Choo San Goh Foundation and The Jerome Robbins Foundation. She is the recipient of a 2010 Joyce Theater Residency, generously supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, helping her to launch her own group, Jessica Lang Dance.

Lang is a graduate of The Juilliard School, under the direction of Benjamin Harkarvy and a former member of Twyla Tharp’s company, THARP!