Adam BENJAMIN

Adam Benjamin was joint founder and artistic director of CandoCo Dance Company and a pioneer of integrated dance. A long time improviser and a founder member of ‘Five Men Dancing’, he has performed and taught with Kirstie Simson, Rick Nodine, Kim Itoh, Jordi Cortés and Russell Maliphant. His book Making an Entrance (Routledge 2002) is considered a seminal text and he has written extensively on integrated practice and improvisation with chapters for Routledge, Intellect, Triarchy Palgrave etc.

Adam has choreographed for community groups and professional companies around the world including Vertigo Dance Company (Israel) and Scottish Dance Theatre. In South Africa, shortly after the dismantling of apartheid, he founded the award winning Tshwaragano Dance Company, the first South African dance company integrated on both racial and disability lines. In Ethiopia he developed the integrated strand for the Adugna Dance Theatre Company. He recently helped launch the first professional integrated company, Integrated Dance Company-Kyo, in Japan. His new work Open State was premiered in Tokyo Arts Centre in summer 2015.

He has received numerous awards in dance (TimeOut, Sainsburys and Prudential with CandoCo). He has been an Associate Artist at The Place, a Wingate Scholar, a Rayne Choreographic Fellow and recipient of an Arts Council International Artist Fellowship. He was awarded a National Teaching Fellowship in 2013 and was named a Change Maker, by the South Bank Centre in 2015. He is part of the Theatre and Performance team at Plymouth University where he advised on the design of the new fully accessible theatre The House.

Mes compétences :
Team building
Choreogaphe
Workshop leader
L'improvisation
Direction artistique