Dancing Times Magazine February 2021 Retour à l'édition précédente

So here we are again, back in lockdown in the UK for the third time. Hopefully, with COVID-19 vaccinations now being delivered across the whole of the country, we will soon be able to get back to something with a semblance of normality, and finally say goodbye to all those online dance classes and performances that we have had to accept over the past year.
In this latest issue of Dancing Times, we pay tribute to Robert Cohan, the dancer, choreographer, teacher and director who did so much to establish and promote contemporary dance in the UK. Cohan died last month at the age of 95, but continued to work almost to the end, and I think it fair to say that we simply wouldn’t have the rich and diverse contemporary dance repertoire we currently enjoy in the UK without him and his pioneering work. His biographer, Paul R W Jackson, provides a formal tribute to Cohan in Obituaries, and dancer and choreographer Yolande Yorke-Edgell offers her own personal view on the great man in Letters.
In addition, we include interviews with Roberto Bolle, Len Goodman, Dane Hurst and Robin Windsor, and discover from dance teacher Karen Berry why a more generalised dance education may lead to more versatile dancers.