★★★★ 1/2 STARS Dance review: CASTILLO, Dancehouse
Choreography meets neurodiversity in this solo show.
Leila Lois – ARTSHUB, March 2022
CASTILLO is an athletic, sensory, playful collaboration between choreographers Prue Lang and Jana Castillo, performed as a solo by the latter at Dancehouse, an…
...FOOT WORK
Pointes, Socks and Sneakers in Prue Lang’s CASTILLO
Gracia Haby – FJORD REVIEW March 2022
The sole is stamped with the maker’s mark, the size, and the width of the shoe. The sole is attached to the last with a staple gun, then using…
Sydney Morning Herald - Jill Sykes
★★★★
Two intriguing surprises lift this year’s New Breed from its customary worth-seeing category into the unexpected: a world of the imagination.
In Towards Innumerable Futures, Prue Lang explores a time when artificial intelligence could take over the human race: would human skills of interaction, empathy and touch win out?
Dance Massive, Australia
It’s quite a thing to fly 18 hours; parachute into a continent, country, city, scene for a week; see almost 10 performances over the course of that week; and come out the other end with anything intelligible (never mind intelligent) to say.
As of this typing I’ve done all but the intelligible bit. What...
The Age / Sydney Morning Herald
Imagine creating a dance about the universe. Do you begin with science – complex mathematical equations and theories – or with philosophy, art, the human body – or even, perhaps, the daily horoscopes – for guidance?
Prue Lang's new work Stellar Project touches on all of these themes...
HANDOVERS + TRANSLATIONS
The building that houses Gertrude Contemporary’s Glasshouse gallery was constructed during the early years of the colonial settlement of Melbourne, on swamplands that would later become the inner-city neighbourhood of Collingwood. The original glassworks— proclaimed as the first in Victoria—closed mysteriously after just a few years. The building was taken over by a...
The Age / Sydney Morning Herald
Dance Massive review: Spaceproject takes on infinite and minute
From beneath a small table, a dancer speaks of the “post-modern apocalypse” and “an implosion of meaning”. In her program notes, choreographer Prue Lang refers to the human body as a medium for the comprehension…
Ancienne interprète de William Forsythe, Prue Lang développe son propre travail chorégraphique sous une forme originale et délicate. Concernée par l’environnement, l’artiste nous interpelle plus spécifiquement sur la question de la production d’énergie.
« Il n’y a qu’un seul élément de l’espace : le mouvement. » Cette définition de l’architecte…
PARIS ART
| Alors que l'écologie et le développement soutenable prennent une place grandissante dans notre quotidien, comment le spectacle vivant et plus particulièrement la danse peuvent-ils s'approprier cet enjeu? La chorégraphe Prue Lang apporte sa réponse: une pièce dans laquelle l'énergie des interprètes est optimisée au-delà des «simples» mouvements dansés. |
Kultiversum
Dance is as inherently eco-friendly as the Formula 1, but for Prue Lang it is not enough. The former Forsythe Star pedaled on a bicycle in order to generate power required for her “Sustainable Dance Performance”.
Description: Consume energy, produce energy. With which goal? People want to live as…
Australian stage
The 2010 Adelaide Festival will host the world premiere season of Frame and Circle – a masterful new two part production from South Australia’s award winning Leigh Warren & Dancers showcasing the talents of two of Australia’s most creative contemporary choreographers, Leigh Warren and Prue Lang.
Comprising two…
Adelaide Festival Review
From the outset, the staging of Rubicon draws you in. The square is Wimbledon green, with marking obscure/familiar enough to hint a game, a court, an arena, somewhere to do a structured battle.
And when the dancers come out to play they do so in the sort…
Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger
The proscenium makes it inevitable: one looks at the other.
Seldom, however does such intimacy succeed in a proscenium-like construction as it does in Prue Lang’s exquisite “Infinite Temporal Series II”. The Cologne association “tanz performance köln” invited long-time Forsythe dancer-choreographer to its festival in…
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
As soon as the music rumbles in the loudspeakers, as if under water, one has the feeling of entering a completely different world and stays in this world until the end of the performance.
The spectators of Prue Lang’s innovative dance installation “Infinite…
Paris Critiques
José Manuel Gonçalves est au moins un directeur de scène nationale qui ne se contente pas des vieilles formules d’abonnements, et d’une programmation de goût moyen uniforme. Dès que l’on pénètre dans l’enceinte de cette ancienne ferme des chocolats Poulain, on est saisi par l’atmosphère de culture vivante.…
The Australian
Australian choreographer Prue Lang has spent nearly 10 years in Europe, the past five collaborating and performing with William Forsythe, who revolutionized ballet technique in the most shocking, contemporary ways.
Infinite Temporal series looks nothing like any Forsythe work seen in Australia during the past few years…
The Age
In Infinite Temporal Series expatriate Australian Prue Lang immerses the audience in an infinitely intriguing experience. It is deliberately intimate, with the tiny audience situated in close proximity to the dancers in a series of rooms, each with a bench along one wall. Each room has a frame…
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
Durch einen Vorhang erhält man Zutritt zu einem der fünf hintereinander liegenden Räume, die Prue Lang, Tänzerin des Frankfurte Balletts- für ihre Tanzinstallation “lnfinite Temporal Series” im Bockenheimer Depot hat bauen lassen. Durch Fenster, die auf den ersten Blick aussehen wie Spiegel und die sich perspektivisch in…
Gießener Anzeiger
FRANKFURT. Es ist die labyrinthartige Erzählstruktur in den Texten von Jorge Luis Borges, die die Frankfurter Tänzerin und Choreografin Prue Lang fasziniert. Jene Verwobenheit, Komplexität, Unendlichkeit ins Theater zu übertragen, ist ihr selbst gestecktes Ziel. “Infinite Temporal Series” heißt die choreografische Installation, mit der sie jetzt diesen Versuch…
Frankfurter Neue Presse
In Prue Langs wunderbarer Einrichtung führt jemand die Zuschauer zu einer langgestreckten Raum- oder Zellenflucht: weiche Außen-, starre Trennwände in Schwarz. Die fünf drei auf vier Meter kleinen Zellen kommunizieren durch fenstergleiche Öffnungen; jede enthält eine Sitzbank und eine offene (Tanz-) Fläche. Man ist aufgefordert, nach Belieben…
F.A.Z.
Der Blick auf benachbarte Kunstsparten ist für viele zeitgenössische Künstler selbstverständlich. Freimütig verwenden Choreographen literarische Texte in ihren Stücken, entwickeln bildende Künstler Installationen, in denen der Ton und das Hören eine wichtige Rolle spielen, arbeiten Theaterregisseure mit Videoeinspielungen, die ihren Inszenierungen einen zweiten imaginären Raum eröffnen. Jenseits vordergründiger Schaueffekte,…