Ginger Lane

MOMENTA Dance Company, Dance>Detour
Bio: Ginger Lane began her dance training in Chicago with Edna McRae, and continued with John Kriza and Ruth Ann Koesun of American Ballet Theatre, Gus Giordano, and dance faculty at the Interlochen Center for the Arts. Lane received her B.S. in Theatre and Communication from Northwestern University and began performing and teaching throughout the Chicago area, both in her own studio and for local community theaters and school districts. Using a wheelchair since 1984, Lane has collaborated and performed with the Joffrey Ballet of Chicago and danced with Dance>Detour for ten years. She has been involved with MOMENTA since 2003, performing, choreographing, and conducting workshops. As Coordinator of the Arts & Culture project at Chicago’s independent living center, Access Living, Lane co-produced, with Stephanie Clemens and Anita Fillmore Kenney, the physically integrated dance concert, Counter Balance. She was honored with a 3Arts Award in Dance in 2017 and, in 2022, with See Chicago Dance's Distinguished Service to the Dance Field Award.