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CANDOCO / Photographer: Hugo Glendinning
Photographer: Hugo Glendinning

CANDOCO

Integrated dance|Contemporary dance

SIZE OF COMPANY
11 on the road

SCALE OF VENUE
Medium to large

PERMANENT STAFF
Co-Artistic Directors
Pedro Machado
Stine Nilsen
Executive Director
Lauren Scholey
General Manager
Katie Town
Education Manager
Luke Pell
Marketing Manager
Nadja Kuenstner
Technical Manager
Ed Trotter

ARTISTIC POLICY
CandoCo Dance Company is a leading UK contemporary dance company of disabled and non-disabled dancers. Since its inception in 1991, CandoCo has introduced a new dance language that both surprises and inspires. The company broadens the perception of what dance is and who can dance by producing creatively ambitious, high quality, and challenging dance performance.

REVIEW EXTRACTS
CandoCo continue their smart, effortlessly trend surfing commissioning policy.
The Guardian
Typically uncompromising…a wild ride.
The Observer
CandoCo is the company for which choreographers reserve their wildest and often most inventive work.
The Observer

CURRENT PRODUCTIONS
The Perfect Human/Still
Choreographed by Hofesh Shechter and Nigel Charnock respectively.
90 mins with interval, 7 dancers on stage in both pieces, 13 on the road. Touring until the end of 2009.

FUTURE PRODUCTIONS
In January 2010 Candoco Dance Company will create new work for touring during 2010 and 2011.

WRAP-AROUND
CandoCo Dance Company’s education and project work celebrates the individual and their creative potential. Through the delivery of innovative and exceptional practice, the company seeks to nurture the development of dancers and choreographers of all ages, experiences and abilities. The company creates bespoke education offers to meet the needs of its partners through close consultation, identifying clear aims and outcomes for each piece of work. It has extensive experience delivering a range of projects, workshops and artist development activities including: repertory based masterclasses, choreographic residencies, lecture-demonstrations and post performance discussions. The company also offers Continuing Professional Development sessions of varying durations for practitioners, teachers and lecturers as well as contextual presentations and debates about the sector.

RECENT INTERNATIONAL WORK
2008 Serbia: The Perfect Human/Still
2008 Greece, Spain: The Stepfather, And Who Shall Go To The Ball?
2007 Jordan, Switzerland, France: The Stepfather, And Who Shall Go To The Ball?
2006 Germany, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Korea, Sweden, USA: The Journey/In Praise of Folly

TOURING AVAILABILITY
From January 2009 to December 2009