Nominate us to win £5000 🏆
Benefact Group (@benefactgroup ) will be awarding 10 charities £5000 each through their Movement for Good prize draw in recognition of their work making a difference to health.
Please nominate us by 24 May as many times as you can - it only takes a few seconds and the more nominations we receive, the greater our chances are of being drawn.
Help support our work with neurodisabled people, so often ignored by society, by spreading the word and nominating us at our link in bio.
Thank you! 🙏
#fundraising #charity #benefactgroupmovementforgood
Gods of Olympus 🇬🇷
Last week our Founder & Artistic Director Nikki Watson (far left second row from front 💪) attended Prescribing Art: the 2nd International Meeting of Arts Prescribing in Healthcare, at the foot of Mount Olympus in Greece.
The conference focused on evidence, education and workshops on arts-based health interventions, with Nikki presenting our interactive work (The Moment) Everything Changed to delegates.
#artsandhealth #prescribingart #neurodisability
Exploring CoDa’s archive 🧳
Did you know that our Founder & Artistic Director Nikki has been choreographing work since 2012?
In the first of a series opening up CoDa’s choreographic archive, this is a clip from Nikki’s first professional work: You Remind Me of Someone I Once Knew (2012), which explores how Nikki’s Mum was being affected by the Multiple Sclerosis she had been diagnosed with.
Lindsey Winship, The Guardian’s Dance Critic, said of the piece: 'Compelling, played in perfect parallel, not just in timing but in weight and attack.'
To find out more about our choreographic history see the CoDa website or our link in bio.
Performers: Georgia Godfrey and Kimberley Collins
Music:
Francis Western-Smith
Video credit: Courtesy of
University of Roehampton
Movement & making for disabled people and carers ✨
We’re very grateful to The Tudwick Foundation for their support in taking our Kaleidoscope in Motion workshop to community groups in Basildon.
With their help we were able to take our work directly to young carers and people with early onset dementia in settings where they already felt safe and supported. In doing so we reached 75 local people who would not typically be able to access arts activity.
Using kaleidoscopes as a metaphor for the value of seeing things from different perspectives, we supported participants to create their own kaleidoscope and explore how it appeared to distort and enhance their movements.
At the same time, participants explored the themes of care, connection and family at the core of our new work in development Our Worlds Collide.
Thanks again to The Tudwick Foundation and everyone who took part. #creativeessex #inclusiveart
Free Dance for Neurology professional development workshop 💫
Apply by Tuesday 12 May, 5pm to take part in our free training in Dance for Neurology @rhnuk on Monday 15 June.
The workshop is also a chance to train as a freelance facilitator in hospital and community settings, and potentially join our team of Dance for Neurology facilitators.
While we’re not necessarily looking for applicants with dance training, some arts or movement experience would be a plus, particularly if it involved working with people with disabilities.
Interested? Find out more and apply via our website at our link in bio.
Meet the Team! 🫶
Jodie Honeybourne @jodiehoneybourne is a dance artist, Dance for Neurology Project Manager and Senior Facilitator at CoDa Dance Company.
Jodie has been working as a professional dancer since graduating from @northern_school in 2013 and has been working with us for over a decade - first as a dancer, then adding facilitation of our work @rhnuk to her skill set.
Jodie now manages our Dance for Neurology work in hospitals and community settings, as well as collaborating with our Artistic Director Nikki to create our professional dance work.
When she’s not working with us, Jodie runs a boutique barre retreat business @barreandbreatheretreats
📷 Jodie Honeybourne. Photo: @caveandsky
Exploring shifting perspectives through movement 👀
Last month we took part in @startthurrock ’s Green Light Festival, using the concept of kaleidoscopes to open up conversations about how looking at things differently can affect how we feel.
We made kaleidoscopes together, then brought them to life with movement.
The day was a beautiful reminder of how movement and creativity can open up conversations and foster connection.
Thanks for having us Green Light Festival and thanks to everyone who took part!
📷 Jason Lynch
Behind the scenes at Sadler’s Wells East 👀
We had an amazing week in residence at the beautiful, light-filled and accessible Foyle Studio @sadlerswells_east developing our new work which explores the complexity of human connection and communication.
It was a very special milestone to be together, choreographing with our new mirrored set courtesy of @ghostlightstagingltd and to be able to share the progress of what we’re creating with friends & family; partners & supporters.
We’re very grateful to @sadlerswells and @weareunlimited for their support in making this possible.🙏
Thanks to dancers @clairevictorialambert@jodiehoneybourne@maiyaleeke@nicholasminns ; composer @jephvanger ; wellbeing support @joyhogg ; dramaturg @lou.cope.92 ; set designer @ashleypeevor ; and production @vernonkavanagh
📹 @caveandsky
🎶 Jeph Vanger
Video description: We follow dancer Jodie into Sadler’s Wells East and to the Foyle Studio. A series of clips show CoDa Dance Company developing their latest work. Artistic Director Nikki Watson works with four dancers in the beautiful studio space. The dancers interact with three tall rotating mirrors.
Kaleidoscope dancing 🫶
Thanks to everyone who came to our Kaleidoscope in Motion workshops today as part of @startthurrock ’s Green Light 2026 programme - we had an absolute blast! Big thanks to @greggs_official for your support.
Green Light is a free programme of creative experiences and tasters until 22 February across Thurrock.
Check out the full programme at Start Thurrock’s website and give something new a go. 💫
Video description: a colourful Kaleidoscope showing green and blue figures moving in and out of shot.
It’s all going on! 🤩
Things have been very busy - and exciting - for the CoDa team this week.
From winning awards to unwrapping giant mirrors at Sadler’s Wells East, it’s fair to say we’re all buzzing a bit 🐝
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1&2) Nikki and Katie at the @OneDanceUK awards…where we won The Bob Lockyer Award for Digital or Content Creation for our Beyond The Darkness project🎊🎉
3) Dance for Neurology facilitators @lauren_sberry & Yvonne at Homerton hospital leading our first taster session with the patients
4,5&6) Katie, Jude & Nikki at the @outdoorartsuk Change On Our Streets national conference, where Nikki was pitching new work Our Worlds Collide to programmers
7&8) In residency at @sadlerswells_east , developing our @weareunltd and @sadlers_wells commission Our Worlds Collide with dancers @clairevictorialambert@jodiehoneybourne@maiyaleeke@nicholasminns , composer @jephvangar , wellbeing & support @joyhogg , dramaturg @lou.cope.92 , set designer @ashleypeevor , production @vernonkavanagh AND our three newest cast members who are very tall, very ‘reflective’ and love doing a good turn
#ContemporaryDance #ResearchAndDevelopment #DanceForNeurology #DigitalDance
Looking back over 2025 👀
We'd like to thank all the people, organisations and funders who've supported our vision of making work with and for people affected by neurodisability, and who've helped make this such a productive year.
This year, we're proud to have worked with new Dance for Neurology partners, presented our interactive work Beyond The Darkness to new audiences; and progressed the research and development for our most ambitious dance project yet - Our Worlds Collide - which has just been shortlisted for a second @weareunltd award!
See our link in bio for the full round-up.
Seasons greetings and best wishes for the New Year from all of us here at CoDa Dance Company. ✨
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1) Dance for Neurology session at @headwayeastlondon with CoDa team @lauren_sberry and @jodiehoneybourne
2) Dance for Neurology session @rhnuk . Photo @caveandsky
3) Watching As The Floor Shifts, as part of Beyond The Darkness at @welcometowandsworth at @uni_roehampton . Photo @zoemeanders
4) (The Moment) Everything Changed as part of Beyond The Darkness. Photo Zoe Manders
5) @nikkikavuk and the Our Worlds Collide dance artists @maiyaleeke@clairevictorialambert Jodie Honeybourne @nicholasminns . Photo Cave & Sky
6) Dance artist Maiya Leeke during Our Worlds Collide R&D at @101outdoorarts . Photo Cave & Sky
7) Dance Artist Jodie Honeybourne during Our Worlds Collide R&D. Photo Cave & Sky
