Robert Cohan At 90, London
Robert Cohan changed the landscape of British dance when, in 1967, he left New York to help found London Contemporary Dance Theatre, one of the very first modern dance ensembles in the UK. Now aged 90, Cohan is still creating work and the impressive span of his career is being celebrated here with a gala performance. The programme includes a duet from Cohan’s 1977 classic Forest, performed by dancers from the Martha Graham Company; a brand-new work by Cohan in the form of a solo for the superb Liam Riddick; and finally a reworking of Cell, one of the first pieces Cohan ever made for LCDT, now re-imagined by the young choreographer James Cousins as Cell Revisited.
The Place, WC1, Fri
Royal Ballet: Mixed Programme, London
Ballet companies are busy fishing in the deep pool of contemporary dance choreographers at the moment, and this season the Royal has commissioned Hofesh Shechter to make a new work for the company, testing their dancers against his dark, visceral and gravity-bound style. Also in the programme is George Balanchine’s The Four Temperaments – nearly 60 years old but still one of the most modern ballets on the stage – and Kenneth MacMillan’s moving, monumental setting of Mahler’s Song Of The Earth.
Royal Opera House, WC2, Fri to 14 Apr
