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Thighs of Thunder
T. Lang Dance is creating a new presentation, “Thighs of Thunder”, a new augmented reality project that merges contemporary dance with generative AI to create a live, immersive cabaret experience. The piece is an examination of women’s power and an exploration of the societal forces that attempt to control and subvert it.
Out From the Deep Series
Out From the Deep: Unraveling Them Turners
This installation was shared throughout the city for public interaction. Meant to unravel the murderous hold of the crowd’s noose and instead reclaim its power for the benefit of Mary and Hayes, each AR Dreamscape postcard coded with short clips depicting a kind of voyeurism in reverse: Agony surrendering to the love story. A reckoning in torment with the triumph of their story unfolding.
Out From the Deep: Meditation on Them Turners
In order to set in relief the catastrophic, so that we can see it and not turn away, Out from the Deep leans heavily on the idyllic as an intensified dreamscape crafted through suggestions of intimacy and tenderness that play with the other elements of the natural environment.
Collaborative works with Kebbi Williams
Tongues So Hot it Turned Brass into Wind
T. Lang Dance’s Tongues So Hot it Turned Brass into Wind featuring Grammy Award winning artist, Kebbi Williams
Black Kiss (Still Good)
What does “durational” look like for a Black populace who have already endured so much? Or those who don’t endure but die young? For those so often in mourning? If there is such a thing as durational love, how might it behave differently? What does Black love that extends for years and just goes on – what does that look like? That stretching of time.
A Graveyard Duet of the Past Now
A Graveyard Duet of the Past Now serves as a site of intervention into prominent and powerful articulations of national identity, expressed through overt hostility to access; that is, access to natural, medical, social, and civic resources. A Graveyard Duet of the Past Now asks: How do we care for one another? What alternative models of security might rival the call to build walls or to secure national boundaries through force? What would taking custody of one another look like without a carceral insistence?
POST UP Series
Post Up
A culmination of 4 years of research, T. Lang’s Post Up series guides us through the horrors of separation and the aftermath of reunification. Lang began creating the first installment of the series, Post Up, after reading author Heather Andrea Williams, Help Me Find My People: The African American Search for Family Lost in Slavery. This book reveals seldom told American truths of newly freed citizens, using the technology of their day — a newspaper advertisement, to cleverly find their family members. Post Up premiered at The Goat Farm Arts Center in 2014.
Post Up in the House
The second installment, Post Up in the House, presented at the High Museum’s Mi Casa Your Casa installation,. Post Up in the House – First presented by the High Museum of Art in 2014, PUITH was performed as a visual installation within contemporary designers Héctor Esrawe and Ignacio Cadena’s Mi Casa, Your Casa exhibition. This work explored narrative reality, the delicate balance of sanity, the private unseen prayers of searching hearts. insight on desperate spells one intimate prayer those who would petition to remain steadfast in their search.
POST
LIT Variations #1-11, the third installment, follows a trail of performances throughout the city of Atlanta signifying the somber joy of reconnection. Each variation was reconfigured in staging, music scores and intentionality within choreography. This work investigated the trails and obstacles one takes to rediscover what once was. In POST, visions of lost souls fight for peace after years of searching, praying to be reunited with stolen loved ones. Bodies yearn to recover from vicious exploitation, from unbearable separation, and unjustified pain. Set inside a reconfigured chapel, Post imagines a new space and time, an environment that stirs memories and agitates the spirit. After searching what feels like the entire solar system, Post returns you back to your loved ones, only to reveal unresolved trauma, question the unfamiliar, and sit with the pain that unfolds in the aftermath. The 55 min work ran March 9-25th 2017 at an abandoned church on the decommissioned Atlanta military base, Fort McPherson.
Bonus //POST Director’s Cut
T. Lang Dance unpacks movement patterns, exploring how systemic mistreatments have been woven into the fiber of ones being. The series has incorporated works by various visual artists and systems engineers, developing digitally interactive experiences which offer our dancers an improvisation platform within an immersive virtual environment. Sourcing from an eclectic background, our sound design collaborators have created unique musical blends that flood out of speakers in an evocative array of frequencies.
Mother | Mutha
Mother/ Mutha delves deep into the complexities of American history. Stripping away the veil of shame, Mother/Mutha reveals the raw emotion and endurance …..