Corali Dance Company

Corali’s performances are generated through collaborative discussion and improvisation and their embedded experience and achievement has led them to become recognised as a leader in dance and performance made by artists with learning disabilities. They are well known for high-quality and ambitious site specific work and for our long-standing relationships with high profile London based venues, such as Tate Modern and The Southbank Centre.  These relationships enable Corali to create exciting new work, take forward methodologies of inclusion and directly influences the attitudes of the venues themselves.

Our dancer-performers are encouraged to participate in festivals and events and to discuss their work with a wide audience, such as at conferences and professional exchange workshops. Some dancers also facilitate workshops and go onto paid and volunteer positions, both within and beyond Corali. Corali enables them to develop confidence and to lead more independent and fulfilled lives.

Origami Atoms – Corali

Duration: 10 minute ensemble piece (6 dancers)

Description: Corali dancers worked with dancer Anna Nowak and Jasmine Wilson from Wayne McGregor | Random Dance on tasks and stimulus from Wayne McGregor’s piece Atomos to create a high energy piece that highlights each performers unique physicality. Choreographers: Anna Nowak and Jasmine Wilson for Wayne McGregor | Random Dance with the dancers
Dancers: Bethan Kendrick, Jackie Ryan, Graham Evans, Housni Hassan (DJ), Katy Cracknell, Paul Davidson
Music: Aphex Twin - Ageispo and Heliosphan

Corali dancers worked with dancer Anna Nowak and Jasmine Wilson from Wayne McGregor | Random Dance on tasks and stimulus from Wayne McGregor’s piece Atomos to create a high energy piece that highlights each performers unique physicality.

Choreographers: Anna Nowak and Jasmine Wilson for Wayne McGregor | Random Dance with the dancers

Dancers: Bethan Kendrick, Jackie Ryan, Graham Evans, Housni Hassan (DJ), Katy Cracknell, Paul Davidson

Music: Aphex Twin - Ageispo and Heliosphan

Freight: none

Overlap

Duration: 6 Minute Solo

Description: Overlap combines dance and film projection to create a multi layered solo that profiles the artistic sophistication, creative imagination and technical skills of its performer and deviser, DJ, who has learning disabilities. The work does not take disability as subject matter, but its sophistication demonstrates DJ’s expertise and his commitment to his practise.



Dancers: DJ (Housni Hassan)

Choreography: DJ (Housni Hassan) and Kasia Maslowska

Music: Presentiment – Tsegue-Maryam Guebrou

The People Race The Fish

Duration: 10 minute ensemble piece (5 dancers)

Description: Corali dancers explored ancient stories, animals and archetypal characters inspired by a residency at the British Museum. The People Race the Fish is suitable for indoor and outdoor performances.

Dancers: DJ (Housni Hassan); Jackie Ryan; Bethan Kendrick; Paul Davidson

Choreography: Jacobus Flynn

Music: Daniel Weaver

Freight: necessary

Corali shares expertise widely and runs an education programme that provides engagement opportunities primarily for people with learning disabilities in a range of settings such as special schools, colleges, youth clubs and arts institutions. They have also delivered undergraduate and post-graduate modules, for example at Trinity Laban and the Royal Conservatoire Scotland and are frequently asked to profile their work at conferences, such as, The Royal Academy Why and How Conference 2016.

Corali maximise the reach of their engagement work by developing formal partnerships with other education institutions and their current partnerships are with Morley College, Greenside School and Ovalhouse. This strand of work is run by a core group of artist-educator professionals including those with learning disabilities and the programme is inclusive, creative and empowering for all who participate.

Corali shares expertise widely and runs an education programme that provides engagement opportunities primarily for people with learning disabilities in a range of settings such as special schools, colleges, youth clubs and arts institutions. They have also delivered undergraduate and post-graduate modules, for example at Trinity Laban and the Royal Conservatoire Scotland and are frequently asked to profile their work at conferences, such as, The Royal Academy Why and How Conference 2016.

Corali maximise the reach of their engagement work by developing formal partnerships with other education institutions and their current partnerships are with Morley College, Greenside School and Ovalhouse. This strand of work is run by a core group of artist-educator professionals including those with learning disabilities and the programme is inclusive, creative and empowering for all who participate.

‘Corali has evolved to reflect interdisciplinary arts practice at its best’ – Liz Ellis, Curator of Public Programmes, Tate Modern.

‘Catch one of their shows for a taste of something truly unique’ Erin Basset, The Upcoming

‘It was a delight to find this hour-long programme by Corali so watchable’ Howard Loxton, British Theatre Guide

‘Corali’s piece was charming and sensitive to place and space and gently flooded with personality!’ Donald Hutera – Curator and Dance Critic (The Times)

‘Corali has evolved to reflect interdisciplinary arts practice at its best’ – Liz Ellis, Curator of Public Programmes, Tate Modern.

‘Catch one of their shows for a taste of something truly unique’ – Erin Basset, The Upcoming

‘It was a delight to find this hour-long programme by Corali so watchable’ – Howard Loxton, British Theatre Guide

‘Corali’s piece was charming and sensitive to place and space and gently flooded with personality!’ Donald Hutera – Curator and Dance Critic (The Times)

The workshop I attended with Corali was breathtakingly fantastic, unexpected, slightly surreal and almost spiritual in its beauty’ – Heather Stack CEO & Founder, The Local Offer