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, Figure Ground 2015, includes the world premiere of Cohan’s Lingua Franca, his first new work in a decade.

Lingua Franca will be performed alongside Cohan’s only solo for a female dancer, the radiant Canciones Del Alma from 1978.

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.

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). Yolande plays with the relationship between live dance and the ‘dance’ of Cuba’s animation which is projected in front of, behind and on the seven dancers themselves. Sound compositions by Kazu Matsui and Joseph Hyde make up the score.