Yorke Dance Project

Yorke Dance Project continues its relationship with Robert Cohan CBE, one of the giants of modern dance who this year celebrates his 90th birthday. The company’s spring programme,

Inspired by his 1984 work for London Contemporary Dance Theatre Agora, Cohan has created a new quartet, Lingua Franca. He interweaves and contrasts each dancer’s particular physical language to create a satisfying whole. The piece is set to a JS Bach Chaconne played live on piano by Cohan’s long-standing collaborator, Eleanor Alberga, which is preceded by a specially-commissioned composition by Alberga herself.

Lingua Franca is performed alongside Cohan’s only solo for a female dancer, the radiant Canciones Del Alma from 1978. He reconstructed the work for Yorke Dance Project’s Artistic Director Yolande Yorke-Edgell in 2014, describing it as a 'meditation that Yolande has made her own'.

Also on the programme is Charlotte Edmonds’ 2014 work No Strings Attached, a swift and measured piece for six dancers set to music by Michael Gordon. No Strings.

The evening closes with Yolande Yorke-Edgell’s 2014 work Unfold To Centre, inspired by pioneering US computer-animation artist Larry Cuba’s film 3/78 (Objects and Transformations).