Lang Dance

- A RESOURCE PAGE FOR LANG DANCE STUDENTS AND ALUMNI -

- Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts, The New School
- www.langdance.com

Part of the Arts program at Eugene Lang College, the dance concentration offers a unique undergraduate dance curriculum centered on recent developments in the field, combining intensive practice and performance opportunities with rigorous liberal arts education.

09/23/2024

We're happy to announce that jaamil olawale kosoko will conduct the Lang Dance guest artist residency in Spring 2025, working with students on a new creative project. Stay tuned for more information on this exciting new development!

LDAN 3700 Lang Dance Guest Artist Residency: jaamil olawale kosoko
MW 6-8pm

jaamil olawale kosoko is a multi-spirited Nigerian American author, performance artist, and curator of Yoruba and Natchez descent originally from Detroit, MI. jaamil’s practice is conceptual and process based, fluidly moving within the creative realms of live art performance, video, sculpture, and poetry. Through rooted ritual and spiritual practice, embodied poetics, Black critical studies, and q***r theories of the body, kosoko conjures and crafts perpetual modes of freedom, healing, and care when/where/however possible.

05/03/2024

WE OPEN TONIGHT!
Sneak peek at guest artist, JORDAN DEMETRIUS LLOYD’s new work for the Lang Dance Spring Production 2024.

Fri & Sat May 3 & 4, 7:30pm, 👇

These performances feature new works created by guest choreographers Beth Gill ( and Jordan Demetrius Lloyd () , along with student-created work created in Rebecca Stenn's ( )"Transmedia: Process and Points of View" course, and a solo by graduating senior Cassie Brey (.brey ).

Lang dance is "home to one of the more progressive collegiate dance departments in New York" (The New York Times), and offers a distinctive undergraduate dance experience centered on recent developments in the field.

📍 All performances will take place at New York Live Arts (219 W 19th St., New York, NY 10011). Free and open to the public. Fri & Sat May 3 & 4, 7:30pm

Presented by the Contemporary Dance Program within The Arts department at Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts at The New School.

05/01/2024

Spring 2024 Production Fri & Sat May 3 & 4, 7:30pm, 👇

These performances feature new works created by guest choreographers Beth Gill ( and Jordan Demetrius Lloyd () , along with student-created work created in Rebecca Stenn's ( )"Transmedia: Process and Points of View" course, and a solo by graduating senior Cassie Brey (.brey ).

Lang dance is "home to one of the more progressive collegiate dance departments in New York" (The New York Times), and offers a distinctive undergraduate dance experience centered on recent developments in the field.

📍 All performances will take place at New York Live Arts (219 W 19th St., New York, NY 10011). Free and open to the public. Fri & Sat May 3 & 4, 7:30pm

Presented by the Contemporary Dance Program within The Arts department at Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts at The New School.

Photo: Lang Dance students in "Continuous Replay" by Bill T. Jones and Arnie Zane, Spring 2023.
📸 Frank Mullaney

04/26/2024

Spotlight on REBECCA STENN. Lang Dance students in "The Pond" by Rebecca Stenn from the Spring 2023 Lang Dance Production at New York Live Arts - Just one of the many works Rebecca has created for and with our students.

Rebecca has received a 2024 DISTINGUISHED UNIVERSITY TEACHING AWARD from THE NEW SCHOOL. Huge Congratulations to Rebecca! What an honor!

Rebecca has taught in the Lang Dance program since - wait for it - SINCE 2005! She's taught a multitude of different courses in both the Dance and InterArts curriculums, among them IHAD (I Have a Dream) Dance Education; Practical Side of Performance; Performance Workshop; and Choreographic Research, Continued.

CONGRATULATIONS AGAIN REBECCA FOR THIS TERRIFIC AND THRILLING HONOR!

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Rebecca Stenn

04/25/2024

Spotlight on KATY PYLE part 2! Lang Dance students in "excerpt from LesBi(s)ches" by Katy Pyle from the Fall 2016 Lang Dance Production.

Katy has taught ballet practices in the Lang Dance Program since 2016! How wonderful to have the director of Ballez, a genderq***r ballet company, teaching in our program. A perfect fit, in so many ways.

photos by Frank Mullaney

Upcoming: Katy made a new Story Ballez and there is currently a free-to-stream documentary about the process on ALL ARTS (WNET/PBS)!

Travesty Doll Play Ballez (after Coppélia) continues Ballez’s mission to radically reimagine the ballet canon. Coppélia was originally performed as a travesty ballet in 1870 in Paris. Ballez brings that his/her/theirstory to light with an entirely trans and non-binary cast, making clear that gender variance and transgression have long been a part of ballet, and that Ballez dancers are its rightful inheritors. This new story ballet focuses on the relationship between the Dolls and their Doll-Maker, meditating on cycles of abuse between teachers and students, on control and freedom, on fake and real, and on perpetually being forced to automate the performance of gender in order to belong... ultimately, these dolls play with mainstream notions of gender until they fall apart.

PREMIERE-
May 24-26, Chelsea Factory, NYC
tickets $20-40

Before the premiere even happens, you can check out the brand new documentary, TRAVESTY, about the process. TRAVESTY streams on ALL ARTS on apple and android devices, apple tv, roku and amazon fire tv.

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04/24/2024

Spotlight on KATY PYLE! Katy made a new Story Ballez and there is currently a free-to-stream documentary about the process on ALL ARTS (WNET/PBS)!

Katy has taught ballet practices in the Lang Dance Program since 2016! How wonderful to have the director of Ballez, a genderq***r ballet company, teaching in our program. A perfect fit, and in so many ways.

Travesty Doll Play Ballez (after Coppélia) continues Ballez’s mission to radically reimagine the ballet canon. Coppélia was originally performed as a travesty ballet in 1870 in Paris. Ballez brings that his/her/theirstory to light with an entirely trans and non-binary cast, making clear that gender variance and transgression have long been a part of ballet, and that Ballez dancers are its rightful inheritors. This new story ballet focuses on the relationship between the Dolls and their Doll-Maker, meditating on cycles of abuse between teachers and students, on control and freedom, on fake and real, and on perpetually being forced to automate the performance of gender in order to belong... ultimately, these dolls play with mainstream notions of gender until they fall apart.

PREMIERE-
May 24-26, Chelsea Factory, NYC
tickets $20-40

Choreography: Katy Pyle
Original Score (played live): Lavinia Eloise Bruce & Scott Killian
Lighting Design: Amanda Ringger
Costumes: Karen Boyer
Performers: Jules Assue, Cove Barton, Jay Beardsley, MJ Markovitz, Katy Pyle & Arzu Salman

Before the premiere even happens, you can check out the brand new documentary, TRAVESTY, about the process. TRAVESTY streams on ALL ARTS on apple and android devices, apple tv, roku and amazon fire tv.

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04/17/2024

Ta da! On this, my 65th birthday, I hereby unveil my new website.

I've been working hard on reworking the site to avoid a promotional tone, and instead to simply provide information, written in 1st person (me!).

Many thanks to Kritika Dhariwal for her wonderful work on the design.

What do you think? (Feel free to alert me to any typos or broken links, or...)

03/20/2024

Focus on STACY MATTHEW SPENCE pt 3: Lang Dance students in "This is how we got here" by Stacy Matthew Spence from the Fall 2017 Lang Dance Production.

Stacy has performances THIS WEEK: "I am, here; Here with us; Where we find ourselves" a new dance in triptych form, at Danspace Project at Saint Mark's Church, Thurs-Sat March 21-23 at 7:30pm.

A longtime member of Trisha Brown Dance Company (1997-2006), an educator, and performer, Stacy's work often explores the exchange between person and environment. Presently, he brings his attention to the internal space of “me”– as a personal environment to be outwardly created, expressed, occupied, and shared.

Stacy has been teaching contemporary dance practices and performance courses in our program for many years now (whenever his schedule allows!). He will make another work for/with Lang Dance students in SPRING 2025. It will be an honor to introduce Stacy to a new cohort of Lang Dance students.

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03/19/2024

Focus on STACY MATTHEW SPENCE pt 2: Lang Dance students in "This is how we got here" by Stacy Matthew Spence from the Fall 2017 Lang Dance Production.

Stacy has performances THIS WEEK: "I am, here; Here with us; Where we find ourselves" a new dance in triptych form, at Danspace Project at Saint Mark's Church, Thurs-Sat March 21-23 at 7:30pm.

A longtime member of Trisha Brown Dance Company (1997-2006), an educator, and performer, Stacy's work often explores the exchange between person and environment. Presently, he brings his attention to the internal space of “me”– as a personal environment to be outwardly created, expressed, occupied, and shared.

Stacy has been teaching contemporary dance practices and performance courses in our program for many years now (whenever his schedule allows!). He will make another work for/with Lang Dance students in SPRING 2025. It will be an honor to introduce Stacy to a new cohort of Lang Dance students.

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03/18/2024

Focus on STACY MATTHEW SPENCE: Lang Dance students in "This is how we got here" by Stacy Matthew Spence from the Fall 2017 Lang Dance Production.

Stacy has performances THIS WEEK: "I am, here; Here with us; Where we find ourselves" a new dance in triptych form, at Danspace Project at Saint Mark's Church, Thurs-Sat March 21-23 at 7:30pm.

A longtime member of Trisha Brown Dance Company (1997-2006), an educator, and performer, Stacy's work often explores the exchange between person and environment. Presently, he brings his attention to the internal space of “me”– as a personal environment to be outwardly created, expressed, occupied, and shared.

Stacy has been teaching contemporary dance practices and performance courses in our program for many years now (whenever his schedule allows!). He will make another work for/with Lang Dance students in SPRING 2025. It will be an honor to introduce Stacy to a new cohort of Lang Dance students.

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03/07/2024

Focus on LUCIANA ACHUGAR (continued!) - Lang Dance students in "Every breath we take, every move we make, you'll be watching us..." by luciana achugar from the Spring 2011 Lang Dance Production.

luciana has twice served as guest choreographer faculty for Lang Dance performance courses. This semester she's one of three artists teaching Trio of Contemporary Dance Practices, offering students an opportunity to study a constellation of contemporary movement practices with three extraordinary dance artists: nia love, luciana achugar, and Ana "Rokafella" Garcia. luciana's contribution is "Utopian Body/Anarchic Body - A practice of being in pleasure."

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