Candoco Dance Company
Candoco Dance Company, Face In by Yasmeen Godder
© Photo by: Hugo Glendinning, 2017
A photograph from Candoco Dance Company's Face In by Yasmeen Godder. It depicts three people on a stage;to the right of the stage, a woman appears suspended in the air, supported by a crutch in her right hand and another woman to her left. A man is crouching down on the floor to the left of the stage.
Candoco Dance Company, Hot Mess by Theo Clinkard
© Photo by: Stephen Wright Photography, 2019
A photograph from Candoco Dance Company's Hot Mess by Theo Clinkard. Multiple dancers on stage all moving in different ways. Focus of the image is one dancer as she strides confidently across the front of the stage.
Candoco Dance Company, A Graceful Act of Stupidity by Tom Roden
© Photo by: Chris Nash, 2019
A photography from Candoco Dance Company's A Graceful Act of Stupidity by Tom Roden. Two dancers dressed in blue flight attendant uniforms are set on a fake airport runway background. They seem to be running from an aeroplane.
Candoco is a world-renowned professional, contemporary dance company, working in the inclusive dance sector. Bridging the mainstream and the experimental, our bold approach and powerful collaborations create distinctive performances and far-reaching learning experiences. We celebrate different ways of being and of making art, putting us at the forefront of conversation around dance and disability and continually expanding perceptions of what dance can be.
Contact details
Jasmin Fiori
Communications Manager
Candoco Dance Company
c/o Mountview
120 Peckham Hill Street
London SE15 5JT
United Kingdom
Artistic Directors
Raquel Meseguer and Dominic Mitchell
Online
Email: comms@candoco.co.uk
Website: http://www.candoco.co.uk
Twitter: candocodance
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/candoco
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/candocodancecompany/
Face In by Yasmeen Godder
Duration: 30 mins
Description: A sensual and disturbing ode to intimacy and imagination, expressed through striking images interwoven with daring and uninhibited dance.
Full company work.
Mid - large scale.
10 x 10m performance area.
Age 8+
People on road: 12
Freight: necessary
Freight details: Air
Set and Reset/Reset restaging by Trisha Brown Dance Company and Candoco Dance Company
Duration: 20 mins
Description: Trisha Brown's seminal piece reworked for the first time with disabled and non-disabled dancers.
Full company work.
Mid - large scale.
10 x 10m performance area.
All ages.
People on road: 12
Freight: baggage
New work by Jeanine Durning
Duration: Approx 30 mins
Description: New York based choreographer Jeanine Durning will make a new work on Candoco with Durning's practice of nonstopping at its core.
Full company work.
Mid-large scale.
10 x 10m performance area.
Touring from September 2020.
People on road: 12
Freight: baggage
Graceful Act of Stupidity by Tom Roden
Duration: 15 mins
Description: Join our two flight attendants as they take you on a journey that slips seamlessly between the everyday and the poetic. Brace yourself for a playful, yet poignant ride on this most unusual aeroplane, fast-propelling you towards the inevitable.
Outdoor/flexible spaces.
6 x 8m minimum floor space.
All ages.
Includes spoken word.
People on road: 3
Freight: baggage
You and I Know by Arlene Phillips
Duration: 15 mins
Description: Danced with passion and sensitivity to a collection of pop songs, dancers Joel and Laura offer audiences a potent and emotive exploration of how we fall in and out of love over and over again, often with the same person.
6 x 8m minimum floor space.
All ages.
People on road: 3
Freight: baggage
Candoco offers workshops for professional and non-professional disabled and non-disabled dancers with tasks related to the company's current repertoire and more general workshops. In addition, the company can provide post-show talks around performances and encourages venues to hold touch tours for audio described performances. Each year, the company holds an International Lab for professional dancers and a number of Dancer Development Days.
“It’s always great to witness the buzz that choreographers get from working with Candoco. Throughout the company’s 27-year history there’s rarely been a work in which its mix of disabled and non-disabled dancers has felt like a limitation.” – The Guardian (Face In and Let’s Talk About Dis at Sadler’s Wells, 2018)
★★★★“…raucous, challenging and tender work” – The Guardian (Face In and Let’s Talk About Dis at Sadler’s Wells, 2018)
“a work that celebrates touch and joy and intimacy and abandon in a way that delights and challenges assumptions” – The Reviews Hub (Face In at The Lowry, 2017)
Latest Video
Candoco Dance Company - the trailer
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