A Live Response to Unbound Narratives: Embodied Language Performance

T. Lang creates, writes and teaches poetic expressions of dance, which illustrates deep, arousing investigations relevant to issues of identity, history and community. Through the vehicle of contemporary modern dance with emphasis on the interdisciplinarity, Lang’s work communicates perspectives with depth, soul and a movement style that captures the attention of the viewer with its evocative physicality, technical range and emotional viability. Her work is inspired by the desire to invite audiences into personal and subjective experiences of inspiration, family stories, shared history; a fascination with the connections in between; and the desire to investigate them together on the dance floor. After years of choreography, academia, and performance, Lang continues to explore new mediums with emergent technologies, and various modes of collaboration, to immerse audiences in what she hopes are powerful, transformative experiences. T. Lang connects dance, space, technology, and creative collaborators to move audiences into a greater understanding of our past, present and future.

With commissions from the High Museum of Art, Goat Farm Arts Center, Flux Projects and more, Lang also stays engaged with the next generation of movement artists through her BLACK ENDURANCE Community programming as Artistic Director of her dance company, T. Lang Dance. She is also the Founding Director and owner of Ursa Major: A Presenting Haus from TLD (formerly called,The Movement Lab ATL). T. Lang is an Associate Professor and was the inaugural department chair of Dance Performance and Choreography at Spelman College. Lang builds curricula consistent with her creative research. Thus students enroll in her courses that consider the execution of 21st century embodiment as intellectual, artistic, and civic practice through reflection, research, and performance. Her interdisciplinary courses weigh how economic, social, and political forces have shaped how black bodies set themselves in motion as fugitives, maroons, and citizens. Lang has been recognized by the National Dance Educators Organization (NDEO) as the 2024 Outstanding Dance Educator in Higher Education (Established) Award. T. Lang was the 2022 and 2024 Emory University Arts and Social Justice Fellow, and the 2023 recipient of Princeton University’s Collaboration, Research and Innovation Grant award. In 2024, Lang was awarded the National Endowment for the Arts for the development of Out From the Deep: Unraveling Them Turners, and Spelman College's NSM Faculty Seed Award funded by the U.S. Department of Education Award No. P116Z220174. Recently, Lang was awarded a Black Public Media Fellowship at the Johnny Carson Media Center at University of Nebraska, Lincoln for work in immersive technology. She continues her new developments with movement and creative technology with artist residencies at Georgia Tech, Oglethorpe University and Duke University this fall as she begins creating for her upcoming 2025 work, Thighs of Thunder.

Karen Comer Lowe is an independent curator, cultural strategist, and art advisor whose work centers on expanding cultural narratives and championing artists whose voices have been historically marginalized. She is a professor at Xavier University of Louisiana, where she brings curatorial practice, visual culture, and critical inquiry into the classroom. Her curatorial work has included exhibitions and projects featuring artists such as Amy Sherald, Rashid Johnson, Ming Smith, and Radcliffe Bailey, among others. Lowe has held leadership and curatorial roles with institutions including the Spelman Museum of Fine Art and has curated nationally recognized exhibitions and public programs. In 2025, she served as a Keynote Speaker at Bison at Basel, engaging collectors, artists, and cultural leaders in conversations about legacy, stewardship, and the future of contemporary art.