Our Journal offers you the opportunity to sneak behind the scenes, meet our collaborators, read our musings and reflections, and learn more about how we work.
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Listening: The key to mustering up a performance to be proud of
Nicola De Maine, ex-service woman and performer, writes about the importance of listening to create Muster, a brand new piece of work which was developed in just one week through a collaboration between Cando2, members of the cast of Charlie F and Shakespeare’s Soldiers, and boys from Caldicott School.
Immersed in the Lagos way
Candoco embarked on an exciting project with British Council Nigeria, aiming to support the development of a new work by a choreographer from Lagos. The inclusive work was performed by local dancers later in the year in Lagos. Company dancers Toke, Mirjam and Tanja and Artistic Co-Director Pedro visited earlier to get things started. Toke shares his reflections….
Moving Beyond Inclusion and the pursuit of progress
Joanne, General Manager at Candoco Dance Company, looks at dance inclusivity and Candoco's collaboration with international organisations on the project Moving Beyond Inclusion.
Bringing letters to life
Reflections on our Dancing Letters project from participant Ashley Crawford.
Dancer Development Day 2018
In February, Ben Wright and Charlotte Darbyshire hosted their very first Candoco Dancer Development Day as Artistic Co-Directors at the Davies Studio, Roehampton University.
Co-Motion: Creating and choreographing with Cando2
Following our recent performance with Magpie at Trinity Laban’s Co-Motion, we’ve gone behind the scenes with choreographer Luke Brown to gain a deeper insight into the process of creating this wonderfully sophisticated and innovative work.