This set design is a new interpretation of Candoco Dance Company’s Set and Reset/Rest. The Candoco Dance company is the first professional company in the UK dedicated to the integration of disabled and non-disabled dancers, Candoco is driven by world-class artists committed to challenging what dance can be. 

Set and Reset/Reset by Trisha Brown (1983) premiered at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in New York City. In collaboration with Trisha Brown Dance Company, Candoco takes Brown’s original guidelines and choreographic phrases to include dancers with disabilities for the first time in Set and Reset/Reset directed by Abigail Yager in 2021. 

In this project, the main concept for the stage focused on the integration of disabled and non-disabled dancers. Therefore, the final design was inspired by Madangnori, traditional Korean outdoor performances. It’s a Korean version of the amphitheater but rather a more barrier free theatre stage by performers acting with audiences on the borderless stage.