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Dateline: 19th October, 2006
CandoCo Seeks New Artistic Director CandoCo, the dance company of disabled and non-disabled performers, is beginning its search for a new Artistic Director. After sixteen years at CandoCo's helm, founding Director Celeste Dandeker will retire in 2007. The Board now wishes to appoint her successor to continue her groundbreaking and inspirational work and to maintain the excellence of the Company's work. Working with disabled and non-disabled dancers, the Company has challenged and engaged audiences worldwide through its ambitious commissions and the high quality of its performance and education work. CandoCo is looking for an outstanding and experienced individual to lead the Company into the future. Valerie Nott, Chair of the Board, commented, "In founding CandoCo, Celeste has made an enormous impact on the dance scene and has established the company as a world leader. She will be sorely missed by the Company. In seeking a new Artistic Director, we wish to appoint an exceptional individual who will continue with Celeste's vision for the Company, placing it at the forefront of the international dance industry through pioneering performance and education work." Her retirement comes at the end of a highly successful season for the company, touring with a double-bill for which it won the Manchester Evening News Award for Dance 2005. CandoCo now looks forward to creating a new programme of work in January 2007, continuing in its tradition of commissioning work from a wide range of choreographers. Celeste Dandeker said, "I feel immensely proud to have been Artistic Director of CandoCo for nearly sixteen years and I would like to thank everyone who has worked so hard in making the company such a success. Their inspiration, commitment and generosity of spirit have helped to shape the company into an innovative and exciting performance and education provider. I feel the time has come for a new Artistic Director with a fresh vision, to take CandoCo on to another level. I hope to leave CandoCo in safe hands and wish my successor and the company much luck for the future." Celeste's pioneering work has changed the way that people look at dance and led to the establishment of integrated dance within the mainstream. Jeanette Siddall, Director of Dance, Arts Council England, said, "In establishing CandoCo, Celeste has transformed the landscape of British dance and created a flagship for integrated dance worldwide. We all owe her enormous gratitude. Celeste will be a hard act to follow, but she is wonderfully generous and I know she will do everything possible to enable her successor to take CandoCo forwards successfully." Celeste Dandeker trained and danced with London Contemporary Dance Theatre from 1968-1973. She studied Theatre Costume Design at Croydon College of Art and designed for student workshops, London Contemporary Dance Theatre, Graeae, Union Dance Company, National Youth Dance Theatre and CandoCo's production, Flying in the Face of... (1992). Celeste collaborated with Darshan Singh Bhuller in the dance film The Fall (1990) for the BBC series 10x10, and in Once Upon a Time in England (1992) for Spring Loaded. In 1991, she founded CandoCo with Adam Benjamin. She co-choreographed Christy Don't Leave So Soon (1992) and Deuce (1998) and appeared in the award-winning film Outside In choreographed by Victoria Marks for the BBC series Dance For Camera. In 1997, she was awarded an MBE Please note that all three Archive indices are very long and will therefore take some time to download.
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