Jane Wang (composer and musician)

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Jane Wang is a composer, music improvisor, and plays the double bass, toy piano, piano, cello, and various other musical instruments. She is also an installation artist, performance artist, pedestrian movement artist and a former member of the Mobius Artists Group and part of the collaborative record company Hao Records [1] She participated in the ~chromatik d zabu.tmp vs. Vox Novus project and is a member of CDZ. [2] She has also been selected for the 60x60 project. [3] [4] [5] Jane Wang composed and performed music for Hanne Tierney’s How Wang-Fo Was Saved [6] and Ms. Tierney's Man, the Flower of All Flesh [7] The design team, including Jane Wang, were nominated for the 2005 Henry Hewes Design Award. Jane Wang composed and performed solo bass pieces for Hanne Tierney including in 2019, 18 Stanzas Sung to a Tatar Whistle at FiveMyles [8] Performances have been presented at the Wanas Exhibition in Sweden, the International Festival of Puppet Theatre, BAM Next Wave Festival, the Sculpture Center and FiveMyles Gallery in New York City, the Beograd International Theatre Festival in Yugoslavia, and Ms. Tierney's Obie-award-winning Salome (with Sabir Mateen) at five myles and the International Festival of Puppet Theatre. She composed the music for Danny Swain's 3000 Miles to Blue [9] and Renita Martin's Five Bottles In A Six Pack [10] at The Theater Offensive (Boston), Cherry Lane Theatre (NYC) and Jump-Start (San Antonio).

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In 2009, Ms. Wang began her collaboration with choreographer Nathan Andary starting with Intervals [11] which they created and performed as a duo at Boston University, Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center and the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, and including Going Viral [12] at Dance Place, in 2014, The Weight of Square [13] at the Somerville Dancing in the Streets Festival and in 2017, Or... at Judson Church in NYC and a showing at the 2017 International Dance Day Festival in Lebanon.

In 2013, Ms. Wang was nominated for a Drama Desk Award Outstanding Music in a Play [14] - Hanne Tierney's Strange Tales of Liaozhai at HERE Arts Center. In 2018, Ms. Wang curated the one month set of live performances, dadamobile and dadabloge, a blog in homage to Tristan Tzara's DADAGLOBE. [15]

In 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic, she joined the NowNet Arts Hub, an international virtual contemporary arts performance group conducted by Sarah Weaver. She also continues to participate in the annual Maudslay State Park Outdoor Sculpture Exhibitions with her wire sculptures.

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  1. https://haorecords.com/jane-wang/ Jane Wang on Hao Records
  2. "~CDZ - Members". Archived from the original on 2007-09-09. Retrieved 2007-10-21. CDZ Member list
  3. "360 degrees of 60x60 @EMF | Mobius". Archived from the original on 2011-07-27. Retrieved 2011-05-20.
  4. http://www.voxnovus.com/60x60/2007_Concert_Program.htm 60x60 composers
  5. "Live Stage: Jane Wang and 60X60 | Dance - Top News | Newsodrome". newsodrome.com. Archived from the original on 2011-07-26.
  6. Art in Review; 'Man, the Flower of All Flesh' by Holland Cotter Published: May 6, 2005, New York Times
  7. Feats of abandon and ambiguity By Karen Campbell, Globe Correspondent, April 8, 2008 Boston Globe
  8. http://www.cherrylanetheatre.org/programs/celebrating-black-playwrights/ Archived 2015-02-18 at the Wayback Machine Celebrating Black Playwrights Cherry Lane Theatre
  9. Maryland Dance Ensemble, Fall 2009 - Friday, December 4, and Saturday, December 5, 2009 [ dead link ] MSPAL Previews . UM Department of Dance, UM Libraries
  10. Going Viral The Dance Enthusiast
  11. Get ready for Somerville Arts Council Dancing in the Streets May 11, 2014, The Somerville News Weekly
  12. Nominations Announced for 58th Annual Drama Desk Awards by Andrew Gans Published: April 29, 2013, Playbill
  13. Collaboration and Performance: an Interview with Jane Wang By Chelsea Coon Published November 29, 2018, Big Red and Shiny
  14. "60x60 CD (2006-2007) - Vox Novus - the new voice in contemporary music".