Yorke Dance Project revives 20th‑century works and premieres new pieces at Linbury

Yorke Dance Project opened a programme at the Linbury Theatre, Royal Opera House, London, that mixes revived 20th‑century works with two new pieces.

The programme includes Amy Thake’s intense performance of Martha Graham’s Deep Song (1937), created in response to the Spanish civil war, and Bella Lewitzky’s Kinaesonata (1970), danced with speed and millimetric accuracy.

Two premieres are featured: Troubadour, Christopher Bruce’s first new work in more than a decade, set to Leonard Cohen songs and evoking smoky club scenes; and Cast|X| by Liam Francis, scored by Jethro Cooke and built from fragments of film dialogue, a work whose movement is described as more amorphous than some quickfire‑text choreographies.

Reviewer praise singled out Lacrymosa, made for the company in 2015 by the late Robert Cohan and inspired by Mary losing her son Jesus, calling it masterfully made and starkly beautiful in performances by Jonathan Goddard and Eileih Muir. The run at the Linbury continues until 22 January.

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Culture, Yorke Dance Project, Linbury Theatre, Royal Opera House, Martha Graham, Christopher Bruce