Pearl Lang

A native of Chicago, Lang began her dance training as a child and studied acting at the Goodman Theatre.

In 1938, at the age of 17, she enrolled in a program for gifted students at the University of Chicago, where she remained until 1941, the year of her move to New York.

She was an original cast member in Deaths and Entrances, Punch and the Judy, Land Be Bright, Imagined Wing, Diversion of Angels, Canticle for Innocent Comedians, Ardent Song, Dark Meadow, Night Journey, Eye of Anguish, and Appalachian Spring.

[2] In 1952, she founded her own company, Pearl Lang Dance Theater, for which she choreographed sixty-three works, thirty-six of which were based on Jewish themes.

[3] Pearl Lang Dance Theater's last New York season was held at the Danny Kaye Playhouse in 2001.