T. Lang Dance

05/05/2026

T. Lang Dance found a home.

Since the pandemic, the path shifted. We were building momentum, testing ideas focused on economic mobility for the company and the community. We had space to explore. Then we lost it...

The work did not stop!

For three years, my living room became the studio. We rehearsed, tested, and built early prototypes there. Day after day, we stayed with the work. That season demanded focus and discipline. It shaped what we are building now.

Today, we announced that we will step into a new space at CTR Culture Studios.

We call it Ursa Major...home of T. Lang Dance.

Named for the North Star, a guide our ancestors followed as they moved toward freedom, by any means necessary. That history sets the direction for this space.

In many ways, this is our underground railroad. A place to prepare, to move with intention, and to build new pathways forward.

Ursa Major is where we research, train young choreographers to think as imagineers, rehearse, and present new work from T. Lang Dance and beyond.

What grew in a living room now moves into the city.

05/03/2026

Out From the Deep: Unraveling Them Turners
Act 1: Porch


AR dreamscape postcard

05/03/2026

Out From the Deep: Unraveling Them Turners
Act 5: Baby Goin to Tell Big Daddy

AR dreamscape postcard

05/02/2026

Why are you here, and what will you help sustain?

This Friday is about building what comes next.
T. Lang Dance continues to push the body as a site of memory and truth, from Thighs of Thunder to Teaching the Machine to Mourn. Now we are expanding into Ursa Major, a school for young people working across movement, story, and technology, with Switch Code Imagineers Lab at its core.

This work has been carried by people who chose to stay, to build, and to believe.

Now we need you.

Your tax-deductible donation directly supports the work, the research, and the future we are building.
Join us. Give. Stand with us.

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04/23/2026

I have been awarded the Vision Project Grant from Spelman College to develop the Switch Code Imagineers Lab, an interdisciplinary research initiative at the intersection of AI, performance, and Black feminist design.

This work extends into my study abroad course in Marrakesh, Morocco, where diasporic research unfolds through language, movement, and lived encounter. In this space, students will train within my Black Soul Codes, embodied systems of memory, rhythm, and cultural intelligence carried across the African diaspora.

The lab is guided by an Afro-surrealist intent. Students will work with rupture, paradox, and reassembly as method. They begin with the body, with memory, with image, and move those materials through computational systems to test how meaning shifts.

Using their own photos and video, students generate surrealist visual studies from their written reflections and choreographic research. They will build, revise, and compare outputs, examining how algorithms interpret movement, identity, and environment.

Grounded in Gnawa practice, where rhythm carries history and repetition produces transformation, students track what the system holds and what it refuses. They will study distortion, absence, and excess as sites of knowledge.

Choreography, writing, and image generation function as one research cycle. The body initiates...The system responds....The student intervenes... Through iteration, they examine authorship, bias, and the conditions under which cultural meaning is constructed.

This project positions students as designers and critics of emerging technologies, working from diasporic knowledge toward new forms of cultural production!!

I am grateful to Spelman College for supporting this work and for investing in students as architects of future systems.

Note// Art work on this post is from my Spelman Data Hub project (T. Lang Dance Out from the Deep 3rd iteration)in collaboration with Professor Jackson (data scientist) Imagineers Joelle Naglame (visual artist) and Malcom Williams (technologist), our student imagineers Goodson and Boyd (movement artists), and T. Lang (architect). More to come on that project late summer!

02/24/2026

01/27/2026

The Switch Code: Black Imagineers Redefining Reprogramming Reviving Interdisciplinary Performance - a Collaborative Fellowship [pilot] initiative functioned as a living laboratory where movement artists, technologists, and scholars engaged in experimental cross-disciplinary inquiry around movement, data, ethics, and creative economies.

Through lectures, workshops, studio labs, and dinner conversations, the Fellows and students examined:

The future of choreographic authorship in digital and algorithmic spaces

Ethical frameworks for protecting movement data

New economic models that safeguard against exploitation and cultural appropriation

The cultivation of interior intelligence (the interior mind) as a method for both artistic creation and social technology

The program bridged embodied research with critical data literacy...training artists to see themselves as knowledge producers + performers.

These videos are from our showcase #3 captured by .s and

12/28/2025

LOOK, LISTEN: “The Ritual of Being,” a site-specific dance performance by T. Lang in front of the “Mothers March On” mural by Sheila Pree Bright, 2019

12/06/2025

Deep gratitude to Carlita, to our students whose authorship leads the work, and to the professors who teach from their own creative lineages // inventing, collaborating, and producing with integrity, vision, and care.

At Spelman, Professor Lang’s Movement Invention course is rooted in a Black feminist lineage that treats the body as knowledge; a site of resistance, archive, and world-making. We honor improvisation, memory, and communal intelligence as technologies long predating the digital age.

In partnership with Emory University’s Live Electronic Music course, directed by Associate Professor Adam Mirza, we build an environment where dancers, sound artists, and creative technologists work side by side in collaboration.

Gesture triggers sound. Sound reorganizes space. Code listens and responds to human presence. Students learn that technology is nevah neutral; it is a site of power that can be re-authored through embodied thinking. Innovation is never just invention... it’s about who gets to write the future.

Embodied Futures, designed for Switch Code by fellow Carlita, is a 3 wall immersive performance environment that merges dance, data, and interactive media to ask how bodies move inside networks of technology, climate, and social change. Here, the body becomes both archive and interface, translating global issues into felt experience.

Using 3 synchronized projections, multi-channel sound, and real-time motion capture, the installation explores six United Nations Sustainable Development Goals through choreographic intelligence: Good Health & Well-Being, Gender Equality, Climate Action, Sustainable Cities, Quality Education, and Reduced Inequalities.

A spatial soundscape shifts in real time, turning the room into a live instrument powered by bodies in motion.

Embodied Futures treats technology and the body as a shared engine for imagination. It dissolves the divide between watcher and performer and centers student authorship as the force that reshapes the visual, sonic, and digital world.

This semester students built a shape-shifting ecology of responses... crafting futures for our kinfolk that are felt, authored, and lived into being.

12/06/2025

Switch Code responds to three urgent needs in today’s cultural landscape:

Ethical tech integration: As AI and motion capture reshape the arts, artists must know their rights and data value.

Economic transformation: The program incubates new cooperative and policy-driven funding models that reimagine dance economies.

Cultural preservation through innovation: By fusing data science and embodied knowledge, the Fellows protect choreographic heritage while generating new forms of digital expression.

Switch Code thus bridges the gap between Black artistic futurism, data ethics, and community-centered placemaking // a rare triad in arts education.