Workshop: Candoco
Echoing the themes of the production Over and Over (and over again), Candoco’s accessible dance workshop explore spaces of belonging and how we get what we need, moment to moment, as we dance together. The workshop celebrates and centres lived experience of disability, interdependence and the unique ways in which we each dance.
The 90 min workshop, co-delivered by the Rehearsal Director Amy Butler and Candoco’s company dancers Temitope Ajose and Annie Edwards, will include warm up and improvisation, taking the participants through some of the tasks and scores that underpinned the making of Over and Over (and over again). The workshop will be tailored to the venue’s group of participants and their interests and level of dance experience.
This workshop is open to people of diverse physicalities and sensory modalities.
Ambition for the space:
We aim to create spaces of belonging, and relaxed spaces. As such Candoco's workshops include:
- A soft start with an informal check in.
- A rest friendly space (yoga matts and bean bags support this),
- A relaxed space (so participants can leave and return as and when they need to),
- Our participants are the experts of their own bodies, and we invite them to crip the tasks we offer to get what they need,
- To follow their curiosity.
- To follow their pleasure
Information:
Date: Saturday 24.05.25
Time: 12:30-14:00
Location: The main stage, Dansens Hus – Vulkan 1, 0182 Oslo
For: Disabled/nondisabled 18+yrs professional and non-professional participants
Language: English
The workshop is free
Dressing rooms are not available and there is no space to do individual warm up before the workshop.
Registration: billettsalg@dansenshus.com (registration deadline is 23.05.25 at 16:00)
Please let us know of any access requirements in advance.
Bios:
Amy Butler is rehearsal director for Candoco. She has been a senior dance artist and rehearsal director for Stopgap Dance Company, choreographic consultant and performer for Highly Sprung Performance Co. and lecturer at London South Bank University. Her projects include choreographing Soul Train a work in collaboration with Highly Sprung, rehearsal directing Frock by Stopgap Dance Company and providing professional development for the team of artists creating Playground a project devised by Liz Moran. Since 2020 she has been instrumental in the development of Home Practice, a YouTube channel specifically for dance and designed to be inclusive and available to all.
Temitope Ajose is a London-based Dance Artist with an interest in myth, psychology and magic. Often playing between the sacred and absurd, Temitope’s creative process is intuitive, idiosyncratic and very human.
Temitope has staged works at venues such as The Royal Opera House, The Place, DanceXchange, RichMix, Dancebase and the Soho Joyce (New York). As a dancer, Temitope has worked with numerous artists and companies including Punchdrunk, Director Carrie Cracknell at The Gate Theatre and The National, Theo Clinkard, Protein Dance Company, Lea Anderson, Frauke Requardt and David Rosenberg, Joe Moran, Seke Chimutengwende, and Lost Dog. She performs for visual artists and makers, Florence Peake, Adelaide Cioni, Sam Williams and Megan Rooney.
Temitope also engages in movement direction (Old Vic and National Theatre) and for Artist Megan Rooney on her solo shows, at Kunsthalle Germany, Salzburg Kunstverein, and The Lyon Biennale.
Temitope continues to make her own work ‘My Name is my Own’ at The Southbank with director Jo Tyabji in collaboration with critically acclaimed writer Jay Bernard.
In the family of things Trinity Laban Dance Collective, and her solo work Lady M (at home with Lady Macbeth) commissioned by The Place, which premiered May 2023.
Annie Edwards is a Dance Artist from Brighton. Her main artistic interests lie in improvisation, collaborative processes and disability advocacy. Her approach to dance is as a way to inhabit and understand the body expansively. She enjoys moving sensitively- with joy, patience and presence.
Since graduating from London Contemporary Dance School, she has worked with companies such as ZooNation: A Kate Prince Company, Scottish Ballet & Nowness, Boy Blue Ent, Moxie Brawl and Garsington Opera. She has toured internationally with Candoco Dance Company, as well as through her own work with Anhelo Collective – which she co-founded.
She currently works in contemporary and hip-hop styles, alongside a collective choreography practice and training in house dance. Annie is also currently researching how to centre disability in a solo practice supported by the Arts Council England’s Developing Your Creative Practice (DYCP) Fund.