On Friday, May 22, Tracy Lang, director of Spelman's dance theater, will present four of her works during her "One Night Only" performance at Spelman College
When: Friday, May 22, 2009 @ 8 p.m.
Rockefeller Fine Arts Building, Baldwin Burroughs Theatre
Spelman College
350 Spelman Lane, SW
Atlanta, GA 30314 Directions
JIG: Puzzle-lovers will sit for hours in front of a box of hundreds of pieces. When separate, the pieces have no meaning. But the puzzle will not rest until all the edges, angular or smooth, fit in a way that makes sense and the larger picture is understood.
Box Office: (404) 270-5488
The box office open's one hour before curtain for ticket sales.
Ticket Prices are:
$12.00 General Admission
$10.00 Spelman College Students and Senior Citizens
Complimentary wine & cheese after the show
About Tracy Lang
Tracy Lang is a choreographer, dancer and teacher with an extensive background in modern and jazz. The Chicago native received her B.F.A 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.
Her dance company, T. Lang, formally based in New York City, and 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 the following year.
The company has since been presented at several dance festivals throughout New York including 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 was commissioned to present
"For Unmarried Girls Before They Wed" at Spelman College in spring 2008, and joined the College's dance faculty as the director of the Spelman Dance Theatre
and instructor in dance. She also teaches an urban contemporary modern class at Dance 101 in Atlanta.
Tracy Lang is a choreographer, dancer and teacher with an extensive background in modern and jazz. The Chicago native received her B.F.A in dance from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and her Masters in Fine Arts at Tisch School for the Arts NYU.