Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater in Jessica Lang's EN PHoto by Paul Kolnik
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Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater in Jessica Lang's EN PHoto by Paul Kolnik
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater in Jessica Lang's EN Phot Paul Kolnik
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater's Kanji Segawa in Jessica Lang's EN Photo by Paul Kolnik
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater in Jessica Lang's EN Photo by Paul Kolnik
"EN, an exploration of time, moved the dancers across the stage like a vortex. The set design, by Ms. Lang and Nicole Pearce, indicates night and day, dawn and dusk. A moon hovers above the dancers, while a larger orb, placed center stage, glows with the help of Ms. Pearce’s lighting. It first radiates a silvery-white light, but as the piece progresses, more colors are added and replaced—yellow, green, lavender—creating the effect of an eclipse. References to time wash over the stage. When the moon, a large bulb of sorts, lowers, the dancers push it back and forth like a pendulum, and the minimalist electronic score, by Jakub Ciupinski, echoes throughout the theater like it’s ticking off moments or minutes. EN does have a painterly quality: The dancers conjure brush strokes as they glide across the stage."
–Gia Kourlas, The New York Times
"Filled with percussive passion, precision, and resonance. En—a new work with choreography by Jessica Lang, with the dancers spinning and gyrating in white outfits to a haunting drumbeat—was a particularly head-spinning treat."
–Michael Musto, NewNowNext
Funders
The creation of EN was made possible with leadership support from Melinda & Paul Pressler and Denise Littlefield Sobel.
Generous support was provided by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.
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