This was a stunning evening of new dance works, alongside extracts from Kenneth MacMillan’s newly revived ballet Playground. The curtain raiser Who’s It?!, choreographed collaboratively by Edd Mitton and Jordi Calpe Serrats with students from the Centre for Advanced Training at Swindon Dance Centre, was an ingenious preparation for MacMillan’s deeply disturbing work with its references to children’s games. In the duets from Playground that followed, Oxana Panchenko as the Girl with make-up and Jonathan Goddard as The Youth portrayed an emotionally and sexually abusive relationship, enmeshed within violent and coercive social forces, in a ballet that pushes game-playing to a horrible conclusion. (more…)
May 4, 2019
Twenty: Yorke Dance Project’s 20th anniversary season, Swindon Dance, 26th April 2019 – Maggie Watson reviews
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March 17, 2019
Twenty: Yorke Dance Project in works by MacMillan, Cohan, Stoller and Yorke-Edgell, Mill Arts Centre Banbury 4th April 2019
Posted by susiecrow under What's happening | Tags: Abigail Attard Montalto, Ben Warbis, Between and Within, Charlotte MacMillan, Communion, Dane Hurst, Edd Mitton, Ellie Ferguson, Freya Jeffs, Gordon Crosse, Imprint, John B Read, Jonathan Goddard, Justin Scheid, Kenneth MacMillan, Nils Frahm, Oxana Pachenko, Playground, Remarkable Dance Company, Robert Cohan, Romany Pajdak, Sophia Stoller, The Mill Arts Centre Banbury, Yolande Yorke Edgell, Yorke Dance Project, Zeynep Kepekli |Leave a Comment
Yorke Dance Project currently celebrates 20 years of performing inspiring dance by past masters and emerging artists from the UK and USA. This celebratory programme features works by world renowned choreographers Kenneth MacMillan and Robert Cohan alongside emerging Los Angeles choreographer Sophia Stoller with a commissioned score by Justin Scheid. Completing the programme is an exciting new work by artistic director Yolande Yorke-Edgell. April brings a not to be missed opportunity to see the company at the Mill Arts Centre, Banbury.
MacMillan’s Playground is one of the featured works in this anniversary programme, its first restaging since its premiere at the 1979 Edinburgh Festival and performed to music by Gordon Crosse. Costumes and set have been reimagined by Charlotte MacMillan. Also featured is Cohan’s Communion set to music by Nils Frahm and designed by past Cohan collaborator from London Contemporary Dance Theatre, John B Read. Completing the programme is a Cohan Collective commission from Stoller and composer Justin Scheid Between and Within. The final work Imprint by Yorke-Edgell reflects her own experience of working with dance legends Richard Alston, Bella Lewtizky and Robert Cohan. With highly acclaimed and athletic dancers performing engaging, thought provoking and enlightening new work, this is a rare evening of exceptional dance.
Dancers for the tour of this programme include wonderful guest artists Jonathan Goddard, Romany Pajdak (Royal Ballet Company), Dane Hurst, and Oxana Panchenko (Michael Clark Company). Ben Warbis will be returning to YDP as will last year’s apprentice, Ellie Ferguson, dancing alongside company members Edd Mitton, Abigail Attard Montalto and Freya Jeffs. Yorke Dance Project is also excited to be working again with lighting designer Zeynep Kepekli.
The performance at Banbury will include a curtain raiser by The Mill’s own Remarkable Dance Company.
Performance: Thursday 4th April 7.30pm
Venue: The Mill Arts Centre, Spiceball Park, Banbury, Oxfordshire OX16 5QE
Tickets: from £15, book online here or call the Box Office on 01295 279002
Find out more about Yorke Dance Project here
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