Sir Robert Cohan

Robert Cohan
Photography by Darryl Vides Kennedy

“Dance can and should be in some way cathartic.  It can speak to you.

This is what I’ve tried to do.

Even if it’s simple.”

Sir Robert Cohan CBE

Life in dance

Dancer, teacher, choreographer and director; Sir Robert Cohan has shaped the lives of generations of dance artists.

This website is a catalogue of his work and serves as a resource of his beliefs and statement of philsophy about dance. 

List of Works

List of Works

1952 – 2021 The following list is sadly not complete – the inaccessibility of the Bat-Dor archives has precluded the inclusion of a number of the works Cohan made for those companies. There are also works Cohan made but forgot where or when, so they could not be...

Biography

Biography

Robert Cohan 2019Photography by Daryl Vides-KennedyBorn in New York in 1925, Robert Cohan trained at the Martha Graham School, and began his professional career in dance when he joined the Martha Graham Dance Company in 1946. He quickly moved to soloist and then...

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