1969 – Premiere of Robert Cohan’s Cell by London Contemporary Dance Theatre

In this three-part work for six dancers trapped in a non-specific situation, Robert Cohan’s Cell moved away from abstraction and introduced a more human element, albeit the dance concerned man’s destructive nature. Created during a period in which the war in Vietnam was being fought and concern about the nuclear bomb evident, Cohan worked with the dancers and the composer Ronald Lloyd’s ‘angry’ music concrète to create his breakthrough work. It was first performed at London’s The Place in 1969 with design by Norberto Chiesa