About Splendid Isolation II

Description

Jessica Lang created Splendid Isolation II, an adaptation of her work Splendid Isolation, specifically for the Ailey II dancers.

Set to the choral piece O Maria, Stella Maris by Trio Mediaeval and Adagietto, from Mahler’s Symphony No. 5 in C Sharp Minor, the work focuses around a woman enveloped in a large skirt and a man, while the rest of the dancers perform on the perimeter, isolating the couple in the center.

Lang “impresses by the range of dynamics, the urge of onrushing movement in ever-changing and surprising group formations and has [the audience] spellbound with the sheer beauty of her ambitious form of dance theatre.”
-Dance For You Magazine

This ballet is also performed in excerpt.

Choreographer

Jessica Lang has created and restaged her choreography on companies including American Ballet Theatre, Colorado Ballet, Richmond Ballet, Pennsylvania Ballet, Washington Ballet, Milwaukee Ballet, Saint Louis Ballet, ABT II, Ailey II, Hubbard Street 2, Dallas Black Dance Theater, Ballet de Monterey, and New York City Ballet’s Choreographic Institute, among others. She has also received commissions from the Dallas Museum of Art, Brooklyn Center for the Performing Arts, as well as from The Juilliard School for its Centennial Celebration Concert. Currently, ABT Principals Irina Dvorovenko and Maxim Beloserkovsky are performing her work Splendid Isolation III in ballet galas around the world, most recently for ABT’s opening night gala at the Metropolitan Opera House. She has received numerous grants including three from the NEA in sole support of her new creations and a Choo San Goh Award. She is a graduate of The Juilliard School and a former member of Twyla Tharp’s company, THARP! Recent and upcoming commissions include Cincinnati Ballet in 2008, and Joffrey Ballet, Kansas City Ballet as well as a return to Richmond Ballet in 2009.

Performance Schedule

May 23

  • 7:30 pm
  • Ailey II

    Theater Bonn

    0228 / 77 80- 08 // 22

  • Bonn, Germany

May 25

  • 7:00 pm
  • Ailey II

    Palace of Culture and Science

  • Warsaw, Poland

May 28

  • 7:00 pm
  • Ailey II

    Latvian National Opera

    (+371) 9,000 2000

  • Riga, Latvia

May 30

  • 7:00 pm
  • Ailey II

    Nokia Concert Hall

    +372 61 55 111

  • Tallinn, Estonia

Choreography

Jessica Lang

Music

Trio Mediaeval and Gustav Mahler

Costumes

Elena Comendador

Lighting

Al Crawford

First Performance

World Premiere, 2006

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