Paul Langland is a choreographer, dancer and educator. Langland recieved his BFA in Sculpture and Performace from the California College of Arts and Crafts in 1973. While in California, Langland began his involvement with the Contact Improvisation dance technique, studying under its founder Steve Paxton.
After moving to New York City in the 1970s, Langland began working with choreographer and performer Meredith Monk, whose company he later joined. Langland remained a member of the Meredith Monk Vocal Ensemble until 1985.
During his time in New York City, Langland also studied closely under dancer Allan Wayne. After Wayne's death in 1978, Langland began teaching his technique, under the name "Allan Wayne Work," and continued to develop his work.
Throughout his career, Langland has performed at various notable performance spaces and with various performance groups including The House, Danspace, Dance Theater Workshop, LaMama, The Kitchen, and Franklin Furnace, among others. Langland has also held a number of fellowships and residencies, leading to performances and workshops throughout North America, Europe, Korea, Venezuela and Cuba. He is currently a master teacher at New York University's Experimental Theater Wing.
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1984:
Fame and Money, Performance Space 122, New York City
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1983 -
1986
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Channel Z, Movement Research, New York City
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1986:
Rapture, Danspace at St. mark's Church, New York City
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1989:
Boneyard, Performance Space 122, New York City
Boomerang, University of Alabama
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1990:
The Ghost of a Flea, Performance Space 122, New York City
Full Flora Smak, Ballet Academy, Gottenburg, Sweeden
Jonah, Spectra Arts, New York City
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1991:
Normal Kansas, New York University Experimental Theather Wing and International Theater School Festival, Amsterdam
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1992:
In The Field, New York University Experimental Theater Wing
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1994:
Full Flora Smak (new version), New York University Experimental Theater Wing
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1996:
Normal Dog Time, DanceFest 6 at Columbia-Greene College, New York City
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1998:
Almost Rapture, Dancespace at Saint Mark's Church, New York City
Honor, Danspace at Saint Mark's Church, New York City
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2000:
Heat, Movement Research at Judson Church, New York City
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2001:
Getting Ready to Really Leave, Amherst College Dance Institute, Massachusetts
Rooms and Buildings (Collaboration with Mary Overlie and Wendell Beavers), Judson Church, New York City
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2003:
Storyteller, University Settlement, New York City
Self-Erasure (Collaboration with Dana Salisbury), Here Theater, New York City
From the guide to the Paul Langland Papers, 1926-2011, (© 2012 Fales Library and Special Collections)
