Yugen – pas de deux (Sarah Lamb, Calvin Richardson, The Royal Ballet)

Sarah Lamb, Calvin Richardson and artists of The Royal Ballet in Wayne McGregor's Yugen. Our Bernstein Celebration DVD is now available https://shop.roh.org.uk/products/bern...

Leonard Bernstein was one of the first classical composers in America to achieve both popular and critical acclaim. He was eclectic in his sources – drawing on jazz and modernism, the traditions of Jewish music and the Broadway musical – and many of Bernstein’s scores are remarkably well suited to dance.

Yugen is set to Bernstein's famous Chichester Psalms, a work for choir and orchestra. The text is sung in Hebrew, and follows the melodic and rhythmic contours of the Hebrew language.