Jan McNulty Posted February 10, 2022 Share Posted February 10, 2022 PRESS RELEASE Candoco Dance Company 30th anniversary season candoco.co.uk The Company’s first performances in New York in April Performances of Set and Reset/Reset at Tate Tanks with the original Rauschenberg set New commission Feeling Thing by Jo Bannon to premiere on Sadler’s Wells Digital Stage followed by Sydney Opera House’s UK/AU Digital Season Two newly commissioned works by Seke Chimutengwende and Annie Hanauer premiere in the autumn Launch of Candoco Teaching Artists development programme Second NYDC + Candoco Summer Residency Today, Candoco Dance Company is thrilled to announce details of its 30th anniversary season. Delayed due to the effects of the pandemic, the season will include new commissions, digital work, and international projects and performances alongside the company’s UK touring programme. From the 10 February - 24 March Feeling Thing, a new digital commission choreographed by Jo Bannon, will have its online world premiere on Sadler’s Wells Digital Stage, available to watch for free, followed by Sydney Opera House’s UK/AU Digital Season from 1 March. Feeling Thing features three intimate duets between dancer and object, set to an ASMR soundscape. This new work invites audiences to observe the daily duet between our bodies and the objects and technologies that support us and the intimate nature of those relationships. Watch Feeling Thing from 12.00 on 10 February 2022 here: sadlerswells.com/digital-stage/ For the first time in its 30-year history, Candoco tours to New York in April with Set and Reset/Reset, based on the original work by New York choreographer Trisha Brown and Face In, an ode to intimacy and imagination, by Israeli American choreographer, Yasmeen Godder. The programme also tours to Sweden in May as part of the Gothenburg Dance and Theatre Festival, Sweden's most established performing arts festivals (dates and venues to be announced shortly). As part of Tate’s major retrospective on Trisha Brown Dance Company’s seminal work Set and Reset, Candoco will perform its own interpretation of the work, Set and Reset/Reset, in front of the original Robert Rauschenberg set, at Tate Tanks from the 19 - 21 March. As part of its 30th anniversary celebrations, Candoco has commissioned two compelling new works by London based choreographers Seke Chimutengwende and Annie Hanauer. Seke’s new work sees him collaborate with the writer, political journalist and poet, Eleanor Penny for a new dance-theatre work. Annie’s new piece will take inspiration from Punk culture and will see her work with musician and artist Fran Lobo. Both works will be presented in a new mixed bill programme this autumn, marking a new model for Candoco’s touring performances. Following its critically acclaimed performances at Sadler’s Wells last autumn Candoco’s latest boundary-breaking double bill continues to tour the UK this spring with performances at Warwick Arts Centre (1 & 2 March) and The Lowry (10 & 11 May). Featuring new work Last Shelter by Jeanine Durning and Set and Reset/Reset, this double bill from two New York based choreographers continues to expand perceptions of what dance can be. As well as its performance programme, Candoco’s far-reaching learning and engagement work continues this season. Helping to make dance truly inclusive and accessible to all, Candoco is collaborating with The Place and Quiplash to deliver a paid Audio Description Residency for blind and visually impaired artists, as part of The Place’s Choreodrome 2022. This season also sees the launch of Candoco Teaching Artists, an initial two-year artist development programme that will introduce five new experienced artists alongside five trainee artists, to Candoco’s vibrant community of dance artists, becoming the face of the Company’s learning and engagement projects. Following a successful collaboration last year, this summer sees the second NYDC + Candoco Summer Residency. For young disabled and non-disabled dancers this residency was launched as a way to address the lack of high-quality inclusive training opportunities currently available for young people. Following last year’s residency four young dancers have gained a place in NYDC’s latest cohort. Candoco will also lead a residency with Inspire Youth Arts in Nottingham this spring. This specially commissioned project will bring six disabled and six non-disabled young people together with six Candoco Dance Artists to co-create a new choreography by Jennifer Irons that will be performed alongside Set and Reset/Reset at a dance festival at the Palace Theatre in May. Through the season Candoco will be celebrating its history and looking forward to the future on its digital and social media platforms. To keep up to date follow #CandocoVoices. Artistic Director of Candoco, Charlotte Darbyshire said: “I have been lucky enough to be part of Candoco’s journey from the very beginning, so it is an honour to help lead the company through its anniversary season and into the future. “Like many others in the dance sector and beyond right now, we are rethinking about what we do and how we approach all of our work. At the same time, we are looking at how we can meaningfully contribute to being part of the change we want to see and advocating for that change. It feels especially important going forward, to use our profile and privilege to shine a light on artists that work with and alongside us, many of whom are typically under-represented in our artform. We want to celebrate the talent we have around us and engage more deeply with the voices and stories we tell. I am thrilled that Seke and Annie will be creating new works for the company this year. “Learning and research has always been central to my practice as an artist and teacher and our learning programme will increasingly seek to dig deeper and even more collaboratively, as we provide rich and varied ways for audiences, dance professionals and participants to engage with the work we do. Our approach to access and providing bespoke pathways into the profession feels kaleidoscopic to me, and it is embedded in a passionate commitment to a culture of care, that will see the company take some new steps in the years to come.” Further details for autumn/winter will be announced shortly. Listings information Feeling Thing Sadler’s Wells Digital Stage 10 February - 24 March 2022 sadlerswells.com/digitalstage Set and Reset/Reset and Last Shelter Warwick Arts Centre 1 & 2 March 2022 candoco.co.uk/events/set-and-reset-reset-and-last-shelter-coventry/ Set and Reset/Reset Tate Tanks 19 - 21 March 2022 candoco.co.uk/events/set-and-reset-reset/ Set and Reset/Reset and Face In New York, USA April 2022 (dates and venues tbc) Set and Reset/Reset and Last Shelter The Lowry 10 & 11 May 2022 candoco.co.uk/events/set-and-reset-reset-and-last-shelter-manchester/ Set and Reset/Reset and Face In Gothenburg Dance and Theatre Festival, Sweden May 2022 (dates and venues tbc) gdtf.se Notes to editors About CandocoCelebrating its 30th anniversary, Candoco is a world-leading professional dance company that bridges the mainstream and the experimental. Its bold approach and powerful collaborations create distinctive performances and far-reaching learning experiences for people in the UK and beyond. Candoco celebrates different ways of seeing, of being and of making art, and is at the forefront of conversation around dance and disability and continually expanding perceptions of #whatdancecanbe. About Jo Bannon Jo Bannon is a UK based artist working in performance, choreography and live art. Her work is concerned with identity, sensory perception, and human encounter and explores how our physical bodies experience the world around us and how this sensory experience can or cannot be conveyed. Her work is informed by her identity as a disabled woman with albinism and attempts to unpick the ways we look, hear and sense our immediate environment in order to rethink or make unfamiliar these intrinsic human behaviours. Bannons work is led by form and so manifests in various mediums including intimate encounters designed for single or small audiences, staged performance, dance, film and installation. Jo has presented work in the UK, Europe, South America, USA, China, South Korea and Australia including HAU Berlin, The Barbican, IBT Festival, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Itau Cultural Sao Paulo, The Times Museum Guangzhou and the National Theatre. Jo also works as a dramaturg, educator and writer and is a founder member of artist collective Residence. Recent work includes Kitchen Alba (2021), Absent Tense (2020), We Are ****ed (2018), Alba (2015), Dead Line (2013) and Exposure (2011). About Sadler’s Wells Digital StageSadler’s Wells Digital Stage is our online programme of performances and experiences designed to entertain and connect global audiences through dance. Since lockdowns began in March 2020, this programme has been enjoyed by audiences all over the world, generating over 5 million unique video views. Our most recent presentation on Sadler’s Wells Digital Stage include Birmingham Royal Ballet’s Curated by Carlos, a collection of four short films created by Sadler’s Wells Young Associates titled Introducing the next generation of choreographers, William Forsythe’s The Barre Project (Blake Works II), Movement in still form, a digital exhibition of dance photography by Camilla Greenwell and Dancing at Dusk – A moment with Pina Bausch’s The Rite of Spring, in partnership with Pina Bausch Foundation and École des Sables. www.sadlerswells.com/digitalstage/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Terpsichore Posted June 13, 2022 Share Posted June 13, 2022 (edited) On 10/02/2022 at 11:51, Jan McNulty said: Set and Reset/Reset and Last Shelter The Lowry 10 & 11 May 2022 candoco.co.uk/events/set-and-reset-reset-and-last-shelter-manchester/ Just to say that I got to see Candoco at The Lowry on 11 May 2022. It is a company about which I had heard a lot but had never got round to watching until now. I have written a short review in "Terpsichore". I liked "Set and Reset/Reset" very much. It took me longer to appreciate "Last Shelter" and I probably need to see it again at least once to understand properly. It was the first show that I had seen following my own injury in March. I could not help contrasting the speed and grace of an artist who was also on crutches with the heavy weather that I made from the multistorey car park to the Quays. Casndoco may have started in a spinal injury unit but it should now be celebrated for its virtuosity and originality. Edited June 13, 2022 by Terpsichore corrected March to May 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jan McNulty Posted June 13, 2022 Author Share Posted June 13, 2022 Thanks for the report. Sadly I was away the nights they were on at The Lowry. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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