Jessica Lang Dance Announces 2017-18 Season

Jessica Lang Dance (JLD) announces 2017-18 Season including performances in NYC, national and international touring, and new community programming.

Ms. Lang has created choreography for Verdi's Aida presented by Washington National Opera through September 23, 2017 at The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts Opera House, 2700 F Street, NW, Washington, DC.Shehas also been commissioned to create a pièce d'occasion for American Ballet Theatre's Fall 2017 Season Gala at The David H. Koch Theater on October 18, 2017. In addition, Lang's 2016 work for the company, Her Notes, is again part of ABT's fall season programming, running through October 29, 2017.

Jessica Lang Dance will perform as part of Lincoln Center's White Light Festival, with a company premiere of Stabat Mater from November 1-2, 2017.

The company will present for the first time in Moscow, Russia in December 2017, and will tour nationally throughout the country, with appearances in California, Maine, Massachusetts, Oregon, and Wisconsin, among others.

In addition to the NYC performances of Lang's work, JLD isestablishing two new community programs in Queens this fall. JLD's community programs will include an Open Rehearsal on September 30, 2017 and a Weekend Workshop on October 14 & 15, 2017.

UPCOMING NEW YORK PERFORMANCES

For American Ballet Theatre's 2017 fall season at The David H. Koch Theater, Lang has been commissioned to create a pièce d'occasion forthe Opening Night Gala. This new work will be created for and performed by ABT apprentices, the ABT Studio Company and students from the upper level of the ABT Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis School . This new work will receive it's World Premiere at the Opening Night Gala on October 18. Lang's work Her Notes, will also be performed on select nights by American Ballet Theatre season which runs October 18 - October 29. Her Notes received its World Premiere on October 20, 2016 at the Koch Theater in New York City. Set to the music of Fanny Mendelssohn, Lang collaborated with Lighting Designer, Nicole Pearce and Costume Designer, Bradon McDonald to create a piece that is "tasteful, substantial and very satisfying"(The Huffington Post).

Tickets for American Ballet Theatre's 2017 Fall season at the David H. Koch Theater, priced from $25, are available online, at the Koch Theater box office or by phone at212-496-0600. Performance-only tickets for the Opening Night Gala begin at $25. The David H. Koch Theater is located at Lincoln Center, Broadway and 63rd Street in New York City. For more information, visit ABT's website atwww.abt.org

Her Notes was commissioned with leadership support from the Virginia B. Toulmin Foundation. This production has been generously supported through an endowed gift from the Toni and Martin Sosnoff New Works Fund.

STABAT MATER

Wednesday, November 1 and Thursday, November 2 at 7:30 pm

Jessica Lang Dance

Jessica Lang, director and choreographer

Orchestra of St. Luke's

Speranza Scappucci, conductor

Andriana Chuchman, soprano

Anthony Roth Costanzo, countertenor

Mark McCullough, lighting designer

Bradon McDonald, costume designer

Marjorie Bradley Kellogg, set designer

Kelley Rourke, titles design

Rose Theater, Jazz at Lincoln Center's Frederick P. Rose Hall

White Light Lounges follow each performance

With English supertitles

On November 1 & 2 Jessica Lang Dance will perform the Company Premiere of Jessica Lang's work, Stabat Mater, as a part of Lincoln Center's White Light Festival. In this work, Lang has taken Pergolesi's Stabat Mater, a sorrowful and heartrending psalm of the Virgin Mary's lamentations at the crucifixion, and created "one of the most extraordinary experiences an opera-goer is likely to see" (operawarhorses). Lang combined "gracious flow and arresting gesture" (New York Times), creating "an overall experience of potent emotional impact" (Operatoday). Performed by countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo and soprano Andriana Chuchman with the Orchestra of St. Luke's, conducted by Speranza Scappucci. Developed at the Glimmerglass Festival, Lang's Stabat Mater premiered in Cooperstown, New York, in 2013, and receives its first New York City performances at the 2017 White Light Festival, presented by Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts.

Tickets forthe2017WhiteLightFestivalareavailableonlineatWhiteLightFestival.org,bycallingCenterChargeat212.721.6500,orattheDavid GeffenorAliceTullyHallBoxOffice(Broadwayand65thStreet).

Stabat Mater has been generously supported by the Strelizia Foundation.

Jessica Lang DANCE COMMUNITY OUTREACH

On September 30, Jessica Lang Dance will be hosting an open rehearsal at Frank Sinatra School for the Arts in Astoria. Community members can join JLD for a behind-the-scenes look at a professional dance company. Walk in at anytime between 10:30am-3:00pm and observe JLD's company ballet class followed by rehearsal. At 2:00 pm, there will be an informal showing followed by an audience Q&A with Jessica and her company members. This event is FREE and open to the public. Families are welcomed.

On October 14 and 15, 2017 JLD will be hosting a two-day artistic and creative workshop with Jessica Lang and her Company designed for pre-professional dancers ages 17+. Participants will take classes taught by Jessica Lang, learn JLD rep and have the opportunity to interact with the company members through Q&A sessions, lectures with Lang's collaborators and information demonstrations.

Community programming is made possible with generous funding from The New York Community Trust and with support from the National Endowment for the Arts.