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.
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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
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
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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Latest News
Seven Portraits Screenings
Merlin Theatre, Frome and Dorchester Arts
On The And: Honouring The Legacy Of Sir Robert Cohan, Cbe
Friday 24th + Saturday 25th March 2023
The Place Theatre
London WC1H 9PY
V&A Screening
Lockdown Portraits
Sunday 24th April 2022
V&A Museum
London SW7 2RL
V&A Pop-up performances
Connecting to Cohan
Sunday 24th April 2022
V&A Museum
London SW7 2RL
Martha Graham Company tour Cohan’s work
Martha Graham Dance Company premieres Robert Cohan’s Wind as part of Canticle for Innocent Comedians which starts touring the US in March.