Candoco Dance Company

Candoco Dance Company are to present a Triple Bill on 28 February and 1 March at Trinity Laban Conservatoire for Music and Dance, with a second at the Warwick Arts Centre on 4 and 5 March 2014. The award-winning and visionary company, whose pioneering work combines non-disabled and disabled dancers through a catalogue of original commissioned repertoire was founded in 1991 by Celeste Dandeker and Adam Benjamin. Candoco Dance Company have been at the forefront of creating an inclusive dance practice for over 22 years. Currently led by Artistic Directors Pedro Machado and Stine Nilsen the company has a permanent cast of 7 dancers who perform a repertoire by world-class dance makers. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Utpg6A5fnWo The triple bill programmes include the world premiere of a newly commissioned work for the company by Swiss choreographer Thomas Hauert. His work takes its inspiration from the 1984 documentary by Daniel Schmid 'Tosca’s Kiss', which follows the lives of opera singers in a retirement home. Hauert, whose work includes collaborations with dance makers such as Anne Teresa De Keersaeker and William Forsythe, combines delicate references to childhood games with nostalgic memories of old age. His creative practice uses elements of improvisation to create a unique and spontaneous experience. Also featured is Two for C by award-winning choreographer Javier de Frutos, whose previous collaborators include the Pet Shop Boys for their full-length stage work The Most Incredible Thing. This is de Frutos’ newest work for Candoco, who has created four works for the company since 2000. Two for C was inspired by Tennessee Williams’ play Camino Real, which explores a world in which a couple is trapped in a longstanding relationship, characterised by struggle and power play. Set to traditional Mexican Ranchera music, the performances take place in de Frutos’ characteristically vivid world. Originally choreographed on a cast of non-disabled dancers in 1983, Trisha Brown's Set and Reset/Reset completes the programme. This is the final time the company will be performing this work in the UK, a landmark piece of contemporary dance repertoire. This work was restaged by Candoco in collaboration with Trisha Brown Dance Company for the first time in 2011, now reimagined by former Trisha Brown Dance Company dancer Abigail Yager in collaboration with Candoco’s dancers using an improvisation process based on the same principles on which the original work was created in 1983.