California Connections: Three Pioneering Women - T425252787California Connections celebrates three powerful female pioneers of modern dance who were inspired by living there: Isadora Duncan, a California native; Martha Graham, who spent her formative years in Santa Barbara; and Bella Lewitzky, who based her company in Los Angeles. The programme features Isadora, a reworking of Kenneth MacMillan's dramatic and moving work for The Royal Ballet alongside Martha Graham's iconic work El Penitente. To complete the programme, a re-staging of Bella Lewitzky's acclaimed quartet Meta 4 featuring guest artists from the US and UK. | |
| 21 Mar 24 to 22 Mar 24 | Royal Opera House, West End :: V377 listing details L1692133306 |
Connecting to Cohan - T0298607053An evening celebrating Sir Robert Cohan's final work live on stage and on film including a discussion with guest artists on how the work was made and the legacy that remains. Dancers from Yorke Dance Project, The Royal Ballet and Martha Graham Dance Company embody Cohan's unique choreography, movement that speaks to us all. | |
| 22 Mar 22 | Theatre Royal, Winchester :: V782 listing details L0673163206 |
Past Present - T137662806Yorke Dance Project will juxtapose past and present with works by choreographers who have shaped dance today. Martha Graham's iconic Lamentation is performed alongside the premiere of Robert Cohan's final work Afternoon Conversations with Dancers, created during lockdown. Cohan trained and performed with Graham, one of the seminal forces of modern dance. Kenneth MacMillan's Sea of Troubles follows and the programme is completed with the premiere of a new work by Artistic Director Yolande Yorke-Edgell, with music by Nathaniel Dett, illuminating the company's dedication to past and present contemporary dance.Choreographer Yolande Yorke-Edgell. Choreographer Robert Cohan. Choreographer Martha Graham. Choreographer Kenneth MacMillan. Music Nathaniel Dett. Music Nils Frahm. Music Olafur Arnalds. Music Zoltan Kodaly. Music Anton Webern. Music Bohuslav Martinu. Lighting Zeynep Kepekli. Design Deborah MacMillan (Sea of Troubles). | |
| 12 Nov 21 to 14 Nov 21 | Royal Opera House, West End :: V377 listing details L0180471607 |
20 Years: Anniversary Programme - T1185578353Yorke Dance Project celebrates 20 years of performing inspiring dance by established masters and emerging artists from the UK and USA. This celebratory programme features works by world renowned choreographers such as Kenneth MacMillan and Robert Cohan, along with exciting new work by Yolande Yorke-Edgell. | |
| 14 May 19 to 17 May 19 | Royal Opera House, West End :: V377 listing details L1533061676 |
| 6 Apr 19 | Salisbury Arts Centre, Salisbury :: V925 listing details L1946315881 |
| 12 Feb 19 | Theatre Royal, Winchester :: V782 listing details L2124335408 |
| 31 Jan 19 to 1 Feb 19 | Pavilion Dance South West, Bournemouth :: V0373043174 listing details L2113937502 |
Kenneth MacMillan: a National Celebration - Sea of Troubles - T92439314Kenneth MacMillan made Sea of Troubles in 1988 for Dance Advance, a dance ensemble composed of former members of The Royal Ballet. He intended it as a gift to the dancers, and crafted an intimate work for just six performers. The score uses music by the 20th-century masters Webern and Martinu. MacMillan described how his ballet responded to Shakespeare: 'I have taken as a starting point the effect of the death of Hamlet's father without a literal telling of the play. With the appearance of his father's ghost, and Hamlet's realization of the need for revenge, his tormented world becomes a nightmare.'Choreographer Kenneth MacMillan. Music Anton Webern. Music Bohuslav Martinu. Design Deborah MacMillan. Lighting Adrian Plant. | |
| 26 Oct 17 to 1 Nov 17 | Royal Opera House, West End :: V377 listing details L1745707765 |
Rewind Forward - T0963887994Renowned for its inspiring world-class choreography, Yorke Dance delivers an exhilarating showcase of contemporary and past work performed by an ensemble of six outstanding dancers. Rewind Forward includes Sea of Troubles, a rarely seen ballet inspired by Shakespeare's Hamlet. World premieres by the company's Artistic Director Yolande Yorke-Edgell and Royal Ballet Young Choreographer Charlotte Edmonds are also featured. | |
| 9 Feb 17 | Pavilion Dance South West, Bournemouth :: V0373043174 listing details L02076376922 |
| 22 Sep 16 | The Mill Arts Centre (formerly The Mill), Banbury :: V794 listing details L266550969 |
Figure Ground/Lingua Franca/Cancioes Del Alma - T1787445751York Dance Project present an evening of compelling contemporary dance from legendary choreographer, Robert Cohan CBE, heralded as the father of contemporary dance.Choreographer Robert Cohan (Lingua Franca / Cancioes Del Alma). Music Eleanor Alberga. Music Yolande Yorke-Edgell (Figure Ground). Choreographer Charlotte Edmonds (Figure Ground). | |
| 24 Mar 15 | Theatre Royal, Winchester :: V782 listing details L421464462 |
Americcana - T0819353822An eclectic evening of contemporary dance shaped specifically for the Burton Taylor Studio by the Yorke Dance Project. The evening features new work choreographed by Artistic Director Yolande Yorke-Edgell and dance maverick Wendy Houstoun, plus select moments from US choreographer and icon Bella Lewitzky’s Meta 4 | |
| 18 Oct 10 to 19 Oct 10 | Bloomsbury Theatre, Inner London :: V170 listing details L1216273160 |
| 5 Oct 10 to 6 Oct 10 | Burton Taylor Studio, Oxford :: V799 listing details L0649239340 |
