Artistic Director & Company Bio
T.Lang is a choreographer, dancer and teacher 
with an extensive background in modern and jazz. This Chicago native received her BFA in dance from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and her Masters in Fine Arts at Tisch School for the Arts NYU. She has performed throughout the U.S. and Europe with various companies and choreographers including Urban Dance Collective, Countergroove Dance Company (founding member), Nia Love's Blacksmith's Daughter Dance Theater, and Marlies Yearby's Movin' Spirit Dance Theater. T.Lang recently performed at the Metropolitan Opera House's Romeo et Juliet under the choreography of Sean Curran.
T. Lang — a dance company, is based in New York City and features the choreography of T. Lang. The company was created in 2006 with its first evening length performance presented at John Ryan Theater during the selective Wave Rising Series. With major success during Wave Rising Series, T. Lang was invited by the artistic director to present new work for thefollowing year.
The company has since been presented at several dance festivals throughout the city which includes P.S. 122, Dixon Place, RAW Material, Tappan Zee Performance Series, Westchester Arts Council, Judson Memorial Church, DUMBO Festival, Wave Rising Series, Cool New York Dance Festival, Reverb Festival, Fertile Ground, HATCH, Throw, The Flea, and WAX. T. Lang has been commissioned to present
For Unmarried Girls Before They Wed to Spelman College this spring in 2008. T. Lang has joined Spelman College's Dance Faculty as their Director of Spelman Dance Theatre
and Instructor in Dance.
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.
Stefanie Takei was born in Pasadena, California. She trained at Pasadena Dance Theatre, American Ballet Theatre, Austin Ballet, and received a BFA in Dance from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts. Stefanie has worked with choreographers Stephen Petronio, Cherylyn Lavagnino, Cassandra Phifer, Doug Nielsen, Notorio Dance Company, and Johannes Wieland. She is currently dancing with Niles Ford, Kyle Abraham, as well as T. Lang. She is honored to be working with T. Lang.
Meghan Dunne has performed with T. Lang since 2004 at venues such as Dixon Place, Dance New Amsterdam, and the Westchester Arts Council. After four years as an Artist Representative at the arts agency Elsie Management, she currently works as a grant-writer for Seán Curran Company, as a consultant for Christal Brown/INSPIRIT, and for the law offices of LeBoeuf, Lamb, Greene & MacRae. She is a graduate of Ohio University's School of Dance, where she also studied public relations journalism. She thanks T. Lang for this opportunity. 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. She has worked with T. Lang on many projects and is excited to be a part of the first annual Wave Rise series.
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.