Artistic Director & Company Bio
A native of Chicago and former dancer
with the Metropolitan Opera House, Marlies Yearby’s Movin Spirit Dance Theater
and Nia Love’s Blacksmith Daughter Dance Theater, Artistic Director,
T. Lang established her company
in New York in 2006. Since then,
she has been creating a singular body
of work that has accumulated critical acclaim. T. Lang’s works have been presented throughout numerous prestigious venues which include The Alliance Theatre, Dance Space Project at St. Mark’s Church,
Movement Research at Dance Theatre Workshop, Wave Rising Festival,
P.S. 122, DUMBO Dance Festival, Dance New Amsterdam,
Cool New York Dance Festival, Reverb Festival, Fertile Ground, Throw,
The Flea, WAX, and Dixon Place. In addition to leading her own company,
T. Lang is an Assistant Professor in Dance and Director of Spelman Dance Theatre at Spelman College. She also is a guest choreographer and teacher at studios and universities around the nation. She holds a Bachelor in Fine Arts in performance and choreography from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a Masters in Fine Arts
in performanceand choreography at Tisch School for the Arts NYU. .
Dancers
Originally from New York, Lauren Yalango began her dance training at the Jacksonville Ballet Theater under the direction of Dulce Anaya. Lauren continued her training at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts where she received her BFA in 2005. During her time at NYU, Lauren had the pleasure of working with Stephen Petronio, Johannes Wieland, Bill T. Jones, Gus Solomons Jr, and James Martin. In the summer of 2005, Lauren was accepted into the Montreal Professional Project where she worked with Hua Fang, Fabrice Lemire, Nathalie Buisson, Margie Gillis, and Alexandra Wells. In Montreal, she performed in "Mapa" by the world-renowned Grupo Corpo. Lauren has been working with T. Lang for the past four years and is delighted to be a part of her expanding artistic repertoire.
Samantha Farrow was born in Los Angeles, CA. She received her
training from the Metropolitan Ballet Academy, the Philadanco School
and The High School for the Creative and Performing Arts in Philadelphia. She received scholarships to the Julliard School Summer Intensive, summer Fellowship to the Alvin Ailey Intensive, and a trustee scholarship to NYU where she recently received her B.F.A. in Dance. Samantha has performed works by Dwight Rhoden, Merce Cunningham, The Kevin Wynn Collection, and Bridget Moore. This is her fourth season with T. Lang.
Adam Scher, a Los Angeles native, began his dance training under Janet Rosten and the Advanced Dance Theater Group. He graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in dance from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. He has performed works by Gus Solomons, jr., Linda Tarnay, Patricia Nannon, and Sean Curran. Scher has performed with the Mariana Bekerman Dance Company, Kun-Yang Lin and Dancers, Nicholas Andre Dance Theater, Misnomer Dance Theater, and Keigwin + Company. He most recently worked with the Liz Lerman Dance Exchange and the New York Metropolitan Opera. He has choreographed for the past six years and has created a vast repertoire. Scher's work has been presented by the Fort Wayne Ballet, D.U.M.B.O. Downtown Dace Festival, The Hatch, Solar One, The Yard in Martha's Vineyard, New York University's Tisch School of the Arts in New York City, K.L. Peters Auditorium in Beverly Hills, CA, and the Greystone Mansion in Los Angeles, CA. Most recently he was in residency at The Queens Museum of Art, creating a new work for their summer arts festival.
Composer
REZA JACOBS, was born in Pakistan and raised in Kuwait and Canada. He studied piano performance at The Curtis Institute of Music and history at Columbia University. He is a recent graduate of NYU's Tisch School, where he attended the Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program. In 2005, he traveled to Cambodia to compose music for an exciting collaboration between Sandglass Theater (USA) and Sovanna Phum (Phnom Penh). The 2-month project integrated western music and puppets with traditional Cambodian shadow puppets, dance, and music.
Set Designer
Lee Blalock: http://ylblalock.com