Overview
- Yorke Dance Project’s Modern Milestones is now ending its short UK tour at the Royal Opera House’s Linbury Theatre to positive notices.
- Christopher Bruce returned with Troubadour, his first new piece in about a decade, set to Leonard Cohen’s 2008 London concert recordings.
- Reviews highlight Troubadour’s vitality and nightclub atmosphere, with choreography shaped around Cohen’s songs and onstage patter.
- Martha Graham’s 1937 Deep Song was noted for Amy Thake’s powerful, grounded interpretation of Graham’s technique.
- Liam Francis’s new quartet Cast [X] uses Jethro Cooke’s urgent voice collage and Zeynep Kepekli’s stark lighting, with revivals by Bella Lewitzky and Robert Cohan completing the cross-decade program.