Based at Mountview Academy in Peckham, South London, we are a national organisation, flexible by design, without a fixed studio. Over those 35 years we built a repertoire of remarkable work, performed by a company of disabled and non-disabled dancers and toured to major venues across the UK and internationally.
Where we’re headed
We are now entering an exciting new chapter. Following a period of strategic reset, Candoco has evolved from a repertory dance company into a producing and artist development organisation, structured around four pillars: Performance and Commissions, Skills and Leadership, Partnerships, and Advocacy.
This evolution sharpens and deepens the ambition that has always been at the heart of Candoco. We want to develop the creative and professional capacity of D/deaf, disabled and neurodivergent artists across career stages, expand the artistic and cultural impact of disabled-led dance, and strengthen the conditions for inclusive practice across the sector. We want to embed that ambition inside our own organisation too, through genuinely inclusive governance and sustainable ways of working. And we want to use our position and platform to champion systemic change for D/deaf, disabled and neurodivergent artists in dance.
A new model
Central to this transformation is a new model of artistic leadership. We have replaced the traditional Artistic Director role with an Artistic Assembly, a collective body that makes curatorial and artistic decisions, forming around each major project or programme. Members are selected by our Lead team using our Ethical Framework, with a deliberate commitment to 75% representation of lived experience of disability. This is a conscious move away from hierarchical structures toward something more collaborative, distributed and democratic, allowing for a genuine multiplicity of voices.
