Face In by Yasmeen Godder Hot Mess by Theo Clinkard Performers Joel Brown Laura Patay Olivia Edginton Nicolas Vendange Megan Armishaw Toke Broni Strandby Mickaella Dantas Candoco Dance Company is a world-leading professional dance company.

Bridging the mainstream and the experimental,Candoco’s bold approach and powerful collaborations create distinctive performances and far-reaching learning experiences.

This spring, Candoco’s company of seven disabled and non-disabled dancers brings two radical works by internationally renowned choreographers, Yasmeen Godder and Theo Clinkard, to Trinity Laban. Face In by Yasmeen Godder is a sensual and disturbing ode to intimacy and imagination, expressed through striking images interwoven with daring and uninhibited dance. Set to an urban indie score, Candoco invites you to bask in this wild fictional world that feels uncomfortably familiar yet strangely distorted. A world that Candoco's dancers inhabit with ease: dancing with pleasure, revealing the extreme of themselves and flirting with both the banal and the ridiculous. Yasmeen Godder is an Israeli choreographer who makes work personal.

Her work has been presented at venues and festivals worldwide, including Lincoln Center Festival, Tokyo International Festival, Sydney Opera House and Montpelier Dance Festival Hot Mess by Theo Clinkard Hot Mess (noun) A person or thing that is spectacularly unsuccessful or disordered, especially one that is a source of peculiar fascination.

Oxford Dictionary From internationally renowned choreographer and designer Theo Clinkard, Hot Mess is an unpredictable and anarchic performance set to an eclectic score by the award-winning Joe Newman of Alt-J. Led by Theo’s exploration of ‘consciously unknowing’ as a vital creative source, Candoco’s phenomenal dancers fearlessly embrace spontaneity and uncertainty as they navigate an environment that is constantly in flux. Art installation meets dance piece in this explosive new work by the company that continues to expand perceptions of what dance can be.

This is the first time Joe Newman of alt-J has written music for the stage. Speaking about the collaboration, Theo Clinkard said; “I’ve always found listening to his music to be a deeply physical experience and think we both are driven by an appreciation for both personal and the anthemic, so I was really excited when he accepted my invite to collaborate.” With recent creations for Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch, Danza Contemporanea de Cuba and the acclaimed work created for his own company, Theo has steadily built an international reputation for his affecting and visually arresting work that foregrounds the communicative and empathetic brilliance of the moving body. 

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