Candoco Dance Company

The company celebrate different ways of being and making art, putting them at the forefront of conversations around dance and disability. Bridging the mainstream and the experimental, their bold approach and powerful collaborations create distinctive performances and far-reaching learning experiences. Candoco Dance Company, founded in 1991 by Celeste Dandeker-Arnold OBE and Adam Benjamin, collaborates with some of the industry’s most renowned choreographers and artists. They create performance work that is presented at prestigious venues and festivals in the UK and internationally. Dominic Mitchell and Raquel Meseguer Zafe are the Co-Artistic Director of the company since January  2024. They are both disabled artists, and their lived experience guides the company’s mission for this first commission: creating liberatory spaces on and off stage, prioritising the lived experience of disabled artists in the creation of new works, and acknowledging and exploring intersectionality as a practice.