Lingua Franca
Choreography: Robert Cohan
Music: Bach Chaconne in D Minor, transcribed for piano by F. Busoni, played by Eleanor Alberga
Opening music composed and played by Eleanor Alberga
Lighting design: Adrian Plaut
Costume design: Robert Cohan
Film: David McCormick
Dancers: Jonathan Goddard, Phil Sanger, Laurel Dalley Smith, Yolande Yorke-Edgell
Additional dancers: Amy Thake, Hannah Windows, Ben Warbis, Edd Mitton
Inspired by his 1984 work for London Contemporary Dance Theatre, Agora, Cohan has created a new quartet, Lingua Franca. He interweaves and contrasts each dancer’s particular physical movement to create a common language.