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 traced. Any information regarding omissions would be gratefully received.
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Lockdown Portraits (film)
Music Nils Frahm & Ólafur Arnalds
Directed by David Stewart
Dancers: Yorke Dance Project & Guest Artists
Premiere Screening: 17 October, Barbican Centre London
Afternoon Conversations with Dancers
Music Nils Frahm & Ólafur Arnalds
Lighting: Zeynep Kepekli
Dancers: Yorke Dance Project & Guest Artists
FP: 12 November, Royal Opera House, London
WIND SOLO FOR CANTICLE FOR INNOCENT COMEDIANS
Music: TBC
Dancer: Laurel Dalley Smith
Commissioned by the Martha Graham Dance Company for a restaging of Graham’s Canticle for Innocent Comedians to be shown in 2021/22
COMMUNION
Music: Nils Frahm
Lighting: John B. Read
Design: Robert Cohan
Dancers: Yorke Dance Project
FP: 31 January Pavilion Dance South West, Bournemouth
FOREST REVISITED
Lighting: Robert Cohan
Design: Robert Cohan
Dancers: Christopher Bannerman, Anne Donnelly, Linda Gibbs, Paul Liburd and Kenneth Tharp and student dancers
FP: 23 June, Sadler’s Wells
SIGH
Music: Edward Elgar
Lighting: Robert Cohan
Design: Robert Cohan
Dancers: Liam Riddick
FP: 26 March The Place Theatre
LACRYMOSA
Music: Dmitri Yanov-Yanovsky
Lighting: Robert Cohan
Design: Robert Cohan
Dancers: created on Jonathan Goddard and Laurel Dalley Smith, first performed by Philip Sager and Freya Jeffs
Preview The Clore Studio Theatre, ROH March 11th 2016
FP: The Mill Banbury 22nd September 2016 ( official first performance Winchester Cathedral May 3rd 2016)
ROBERT COHAN SOLO 52 PORTRAITS
Music: Matteo Fargeon
Dancer: Robert Cohan
Part of 52 videos for Sadler’s Wells directed by Jonathan Burrows
FP: 1 February
LINGUA FRANCA
Music: J.S. Bach arr. Ferucio Busoni, Eleanor Alberga
Lighting: Robert Cohan
Design: Robert Cohan
Dancers: Yorke Dance Project
FP: 31st January, Merlin Theatre Frome, London premiere,10 March 2015 Lilian Baylis Studio Sadler’s Wells
STUDY
Lighting: Robert Cohan
Design: Robert Cohan
Dancers: Darshan Singh Bhuller
FP: 8 December, The Place, London
ALADDIN
Music: Carl Davis
Lighting: Robert Cohan
Design: Lez Brotherston
Dancers: Scottish Ballet
FP: 20 December, Festival Theatre, Edinburgh
PICTURES
Choreogaphy: Robert Cohan and Robert North
Lighting: Robert Cohan
Dancers: Compagnia Fabula Saltica
FP: Teatro di Rovigo, Italy
ADAGIETTO
Music: Gustav Mahler
Lighting: Robert Cohan
Design: Robert Cohan
Dancer: David Hughes
THE FOUR SEASONS
Music: Antonio Vivaldi
Lighting: Robert Cohan
Design: Norberto Chiesa
Dancers: Scottish Ballet
FP: 26 August, in “Sweat Rock n’Roll”, Theatre Royal, Glasgow
A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM
Music: Felix Mendelssohn, Barrington Pheloung
Lighting: Robert Cohan
Design: Norberto Chiesa
Dancers: Scottish Ballet
FP: 20 March, Theatre Royal, Glasgow
MASS FOR MAN
Dance for television
Broadcast: 17 November, BBC2
STONE GARDEN
Music: Nigel Osborne
Lighting: John B. Read
Design: Peter Farmer
Dancers: LCDT
FP: 18 April, Queen Elizabeth Hall, London
CRESCENDO
Music: David Bedford
Lighting: John B. Read
Design: Peter Farmer
Dancers: LCDT
FP: 18 April, Queen Elizabeth Hall, London
METAMORPHOSES
Music: Benjamin Britten
Lighting: John B. Read
Design: Peter Farmer
Dancer: Darshan Singh Bhuller
FP: 18 April, Queen Elizabeth Hall, London
IN MEMORY
Music: Hans Werner Henze
Lighting: John B. Read
Design: Peter Farmer
Dancers: LCDT
FP: 18 April, Queen Elizabeth Hall, London
THE PHANTASMAGORIA
Choreography: Robert Cohan, Tom Jobe, Darshan Singh Bhuller
Music: Barrington Pheloung
Lighting: Graham Large
Design: Nadine Baylis
Dancers: LCDT
FP: 29 September, Birmingham Hippodrome
INTERROGATIONS
Music: Barrington Pheloung
Lighting: Robert Cohan
Design: António Lagarto
Dancers: LCDT
FP: 24 September, Queen Elizabeth Hall, London
VIDEO LIFE
Music: Barry Guy
Lighting: Robert Cohan
Design: Norberto Chiesa
Dancers: LCDT
FP: 27 August, Queen Elizabeth Hall, London
CEREMONY/SLOW DANCE ON A BURIAL GROUND
Music: Stephen Montague
Lighting: Robert Cohan
Costumes: Audrey Gie
Set: Norberto Chiesa
Dancers: LCDT
FP: 14 February, Royal Hippodrome, Eastbourne
CUBAN DANCE
Music: Aaron Copland
Lighting: Kenneth McAllister
Costumes: Gillian Block
Dancers: Batsheva Dance Company
FP: 30 December Hall of Culture, Carmel
CHACONNE
Music: J.S. Bach
Lighting: Kevin McAllister
Costumes: Oded Gera
Dancers: Batsheva Dance Company
FP: 12March Sharet Hall Giv’at Hayim
AGORA
Music: J. S. Bach, Barrington Pheloung
Lighting: Mark Henderson
Design: Norberto Chiesa
Dancers: LCDT
FP: 16 February, Grand Theatre, Leeds (working title: Common Land)
COMMON PRAYER
Music: Andrejz Panufnik
Lighting: Chanel Spence
Costumes: Moshe Sternfeld
Accessories: Judith Greenspan
Dancers: Batsheva Dance Company
FP: 27 October Heichel Hatarbut Tel aviv
DIARY
Music: Sergio Natra
Lighting: Robert Cohan
Design: Moshe Sternfeld
Costumes: Shuki Sachs
Dancers: Batsheva Dance Company
FP: 4 October Culture Centre Kibbutz Revivim
WHEN EVENING SPREADS ITSELF AGAINST THE SKY
Music: J. S. Bach
Lighting: Robert Cohan
Design: Robert Cohan
Dancers: Dancemakers, Toronto
CHAMBER DANCES
Music: Geoffrey Burgon
Lighting: John B. Read
Design: Norberto Chiesa
Dancers: LCDT
FP: 16 September, Sadler’s Wells Theatre, London
DANCES OF LOVE AND DEATH
Music: Carl Davis, Conlon Nancarrow
Lighting: John B. Read
Design: Norberto Chiesa
Dancers: London Contemporary Dance Theatre
FP: 31 October, Edinburgh Festival
FIELD
Music: Brian Hodgson
Lighting: Robert Cohan
Design: Penny King
Dancers: LCDT
FP: 12 February, Christ’s Hospital Arts Centre, Horsham
CANCIONES DEL ALMA
Music: Geoffrey Burgon
Lighting: Robert Cohan
Design: Robert Cohan
Dancer: Susan MacPherson. Revised and restaged in 2014 for Yolande Yorke Edgell
FP: 1 January, Toronto
RONDO
Music: John Herbert McDowell
Lighting: Robert Cohan
Design: Barney Wan
Dancers: LCDT
FP: 2 October, The Roundhouse, London
SONGS, LAMENTATIONS AND PRAISES
Music: Geoffrey Burgon
Lighting: John B. Read
Design: Norberto Chiesa
Dancers: LCDT
FP: 7 August, Jerusalem
ICE
Music: Morton Subotnick
Lighting: John B. Read
Design: Norberto Chiesa
Dancers: LCDT
FP: 5 December, Sadler’s Wells Theatre, London
EOS
Music: Barry Guy
Design: Barney Wan
Dancers: LCDT
FP: 3 October, Pavilion Theatre, Bournemouth
FALLING MAN SOLO
Music: Barrington Pheloung
Lighting: Robert Cohan
Design: Robert Cohan
Dancer: Robert North
FP: 18 May
FOREST
Music: Brian Hodgson
Lighting: Robert Cohan
Design: Norberto Chiesa
Dancers: LCDT
FP: April, Sadler’s Wells Theatre, London
NIGHT WATCH
Choreography: Robert Cohan, Micha Bergese, Robert North, Siobhan Davies
Music: Bob Downes
Lighting: Robert Cohan
Design: Norberto Chiesa
Dancers: LCDT
FP: 5 April, Sadler’s Wells Theatre, London
CARTE BLANCHE
Nude review directed by Clifford Williams
Lighting: Andrew Bridge
Design: Farrah and Judith Bland
Dancers: ensemble
FP: 30 September, Phoenix Theatre, London
NYMPHEAS
Music: Claude Debussy
Lighting: John B. Read
Design: Norberto Chiesa
Dancers: LCDT
FP: 22 June, Theatre Royal, York
KHAMSIN
Music: Bob Downes
Lighting: Robert Cohan
Design: Norberto Chiesa
Dancers: LCDT
FP: 22 March, The Playhouse, Leeds
PLACE OF CHANGE
Music: Arnold Schoenberg
Lighting: Robert Cohan (Bat-Dor), John B. Read (LCDT, 1981)
Design: Charter
Dancers: Bat-Dor, LCDT
FP: Bat-Dor, unknown; LCDT, 22 December, Sadler’s Wells Theatre, London
STABAT MATER
Music: Antonio Vivaldi
Lighting: John B. Read
Design: Robert Cohan
Dancers: LCDT
FP: 29 September, MacRobert Arts Centre, Stirling
CLASS
Music: John Keliehor (1975), Geoffrey Burgon (1980), John Keliehor (1981 onwards)
Lighting: John B. Read
Design: Robert Cohan
Dancers: LCDT
FP: 4 June, The Place, London
MASQUE OF SEPARATION
Music: Burt Alcantara
Lighting: John B. Read
Design: Norberto Chiesa
Dancers: LCDT
FP: 20 February, Shaw Theatre, London (as Myth)
MEN SEEN AFAR
(dance for television)
Broadcast: 16 November, BBC2
NO MAN’S LAND
Music: Barry Guy
Lighting: Richard Casswell
Design: Peter Farmer
Dancers: LCDT
FP: 13 November, Sadler’s Wells Theatre, London
WATERLESS METHOD OF SWIMMING INSTRUCTION
Music: Bob Downes
Lighting: Robert Cohan
Design: Ian Murray Clark
Dancers: LCDT
FP: 11 June, Théâtre de Beaulieu, Lausanne Festival
DANCE OF THE SEVEN VEILS
Dance for video production of Strauss’s opera Salome
MASS
Music: Vladimir Rodzianko (1973), Judith Weir (1974)
Lighting: John B. Read
Costumes: Robert Cohan
Design: Norberto Chiesa
Dancers: LCDT
FP: 3 April, Oxford Playhouse, Oxford
PEOPLE TOGETHER
Music: Bob Downes
Lighting: Robert Cohan
Costumes: Robert Cohan
Design: Norberto Chiesa
Dancers: LCDT
FP: 26 February, The Place, London
PEOPLE ALONE
Music: Bob Downes
Lighting: John B. Read
Costumes: Jane Hyland
Design: Norberto Chiesa
Dancers: LCDT
FP: 29 August, The Place, London
STAGES
Music: Arne Nordheim, Bob Downes
Lighting: John B. Read
Design: Peter Farmer
Film: Anthony McCall
Dancers: LCDT
FP: 21 April, The Place, London
THE CONSOLATION OF THE RISING MOON
Music: John Williams
Lighting: Robert Cohan
Design: Peter Farmer
Dancers: LCDT
FP: 13 January, The Place, London
LIFELINES, DANCE FOR TELEVISION
Broadcast: 8 January, BBC2
Cell
Music: Ronald Lloyd
Lighting: John B. Read
Design: Norberto Chiesa
Costumes: Robert Cohan
Dancers: LCDT
FP: 11 September, The Place, London
SHANTA QUINTET
Music: John Mayer
Lighting: Robert Cohan
Design: Robert Cohan
Dancers: LCDT
FP: 4 September, The Place, London
SIDE SCENE
Music: Medieval music selection
Lighting: Robert Cohan
Design: Norberto Chiesa
Dancers: LCDT
FP: 2 September, The Place, London
TZAIKERK
Music: Alan Hovhaness
Lighting: Brian Benn
Design: Norberto Chiesa
Dancers: LCDT
FP: 10 October, Adeline Genée Theatre, East Grinstead
SKY
Music: Eugene Lester
Lighting: Robert Cohan
Design: Peter Farmer
Dancers: London Contemporary Dance Group (LCDT)
FP: 10 October, Adeline Genée Theatre, East Grinstead
TENT OF VISION
Music: Noam Sheriff
Set: Dani Karavan
Costumes: Robert Cohan
Lighting: Haim Tchelet
Dancers: Batsheva Dance Company
FP: July 27, 1965 – Sha’ar HaNegev Kibbutz, Israel
CELEBRANTS
Music: Surinach
Design: Robert Cohan
Lighting: Arnon Adar
Dancers: Batsheva Dance Company
FP: December 14, 1964- Tiferet Hall, Herzelya, Israel
SIDDARTHA
Music and libretto: James T. Anderson
Dancers: Robert Cohan, Matt Turney and ensemble
FP: 4 March, Loeb Drama Center, Boston
ORNAMENTS AND ASHES
Music: Eugene Lester
Design: Walter Martin
Dancers: Robert Cohan, Robert Powell, Matt Turney, Carol Drisin
FP: 28 April, John Hancock Hall, Boston
CEREMONY FOR SERPENTS
Music: Eugene Lester
Design: Walter Martin
Dancers: Robert Cohan, Robert Powell, Matt Turney, Carol Drisin
FP: 28 April, John Hancock Hall, Boston
LUNA PARK: AN EXCURSION
Music: Eugene Lester
Design: Walter Martin
Dancers: Robert Cohan, Bertram Ross, Linda Hodes, Mary Hinkson
FP: 25 May, Loeb Drama Center, Boston
CHAMBER OF THE LIAR
Music: Eugene Lester
Design: Walter Martin
Dancers: Robert Cohan, Bertram Ross, Linda Hodes, Mary Hinkson
FP: 25 May, Loeb Drama Center, Boston
HUNTER OF ANGELS
Music: Bruno Maderna
Design: Robert Cohan
Dancers: Robert Cohan, Bertram Ross
FP: 25 May, Loeb Drama Center, Boston
ECLIPSE
Music: Eugene Lester
Design: Robert Cohan
Dancers: Robert Cohan, Matt Turney
FP: American Dance Festival, Connecticut College
DIDO AND AENEAS
Music: Henry Purcell
FP: 18 May, Jordan Hall, Boston
VEILED WOMAN
Music: Leonard Taffs
Design: Walter Martin
Dancer: Matt Turney
FP: 8 October, Strong Auditorium, University of Rochester
THE QUEST: AN ALLEGORY OF THE SOUL
Music: Eugene Lester
Design: Walter Martin
Dancers: Robert Cohan, Matt Turney
FP: 8 October, Strong Auditorium, University of Rochester
THE NEW BOY
(Musical)
Pilgrim Fellowship of the First Church in Cambridge Congregational, Boston
THE PASS: A REHEARSAL IN EVIL
Music: Eugene Lester
Design: Walter Martin
Dancers: Robert Cohan, Matt Turney
FP: 2 April, Strong Auditorium, University of Rochester
SEABORNE
Music: James T. Anderson
Design: Walter Martin
Dancer: Robert Cohan
FP: 2 April, Strong Auditorium, University of Rochester
VESTIGE
(solo on the death of Pan)
Music: Eugene Lester
Design: Walter Martin
Dancer: Robert Cohan
FP: 8 November, Strong Auditorium, University of Rochester
Praises
Music: Alan Hovhaness
Design: Robert Cohan
Dancers: Robert Cohan, Matt Turney
FP: 8 November, Strong Auditorium, University of Rochester
Streams
Music: Alan Hovhaness
Design: Robert Cohan
Dancer: Robert Cohan
PERCHANCE TO DREAM
Music: Claude Debussy
Design: Robert Cohan
Dancer: Robert Cohan
Notes: Utilised chair from Martha Graham’s Gospel of Eve designed by Oliver Smith
FP: 28 July, Connecticut College, New London