30 minutes
11 dancers
September 20, 2024
Pacific Northwest Ballet
Jessica Lang’s 2024 World Premiere, Black Wave, is principally supported by Susan Brotman, with additional support from Charles & Debra Adelman.
Jessica Lang’s choreographic residency with PNB is sponsored by Tom and Connie Walsh.
Black Wave is inspired by mental health awareness and rooted in the philosophy behind Kintsugi (金継ぎ meaning ‘golden joinery’), the centuries-old Japanese art of repairing broken pottery by mending the breakage of treasured objects with gold lacquer. Kintsugi beautifies the cracks that serve as a visual record of the object’s history and can be a metaphor for our human life experience.