SIZE OF COMPANY
12 on the road

SCALE OF VENUE
Middle-scale

PERMANENT STAFF
Artistic Director
Celeste Dandeker

Executive Director
Lauren Scholey

Administrator
Verity Golding

Technical Manager
Ed Trotter

Marketing Manager
Nadja Kuenstner

ARTISTIC POLICY
CandoCo’s vision is to produce creatively ambitious and high-quality contemporary dance performance that will enhance its reputation as one of the world’s leading dance companies of disabled and non-disabled dancers. The company commissions world-class choreographers to produce high quality work suitable for middle-scale theatre spaces that will challenge and entertain audiences. Each programme (two to three works) tours for 18 months in the UK and abroad.

REVIEW EXTRACTS
'CandoCo… take dance to new expansively expressive heights.' The Independent

'Once again... CandoCo has not only reinvented the boundaries of dance, it has extended its horizons in the most exciting way.' The Stage

CURRENT PRODUCTIONS
New work (title tbc) Fresh, sensual, and charged with energy, Rafael Bonachela’s choreography provides a technical challenge for CandoCo dancers to rise to. (30 mins, 7 on stage, 12 on the road)

New work (title tbc) Through Arthur Pita’s unique theatrical take on movement, the dancers are transformed into an Appalachian mountain family complete with buck teeth and a noose. This new piece, set to a country and rock soundtrack, creates a theatrical world of dark humour, bursting with visual images, skittish characters and brazen dances. (30 mins, 7 on stage, 12 on the road)

WRAP AROUND ACTIVITY
CandoCo can provide education and training workshops and residencies to integrated groups of disabled and non-disabled participants and lead teacher/practitioner training and development.

RECENT INTERNATIONAL TOURING
2006 Germany, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Korea, Sweden, USA

TOURING AVAILABILITY
The new double bill from Rafael Bonachela and Arthur Pita will be available from April 2007 onwards.