Durational Performance, 2026
There is a theory about elephants and freedom. In the circus, baby elephants are tied by their legs to make sure they can’t leave. As the elephants grow older, they no longer need the ropes. They remember being tied down, and this memory is enough to keep them from leaving. Even though they easily could, they don’t. In this performance, Coco Candido explores personal patterns of staying in situations where we could leave, even though we don’t believe we can. She uses a rope and trousers, creating the impression that the trousers are stuck. In reality, she can easily untie the rope and free herself.
Tic Tac art center, 2026
In this performance Coco Candido takes on on a journey of stories that are loning to be told. Stories about epistemic injustice. Meaning: not being believed when you speak up about injustice. A story followed by a silence. One of the key aspects of trauma is that people have no words to explain what has happened to them. It's only felt in the body, without having words to get it out. This performance is about the sadness of unspoken words: the stories we wish we had told, the “I love yous” we didn’t dare to say, and the stories longing to be told but lacking the words.
Durational Performance, 2026
In Home Work, Coco Candido stages invisible labour such as cooking, doing laundry or cleaning. Through her performence, she stages all that normally remains invisible to the public eye. Invisible and not valued. How do we value a mother cooking? How do we value a queer person resting? How do we value a person of the global majority regulating another person’s emotion? Often people only become visible to the public eye once they need something from. Worldwide women make of of half of the population doing 60% of the work, 80% of the parenting and only earning 10% of the pay. Coco brings the invisible to the stage, in order to make it visible. Visible and valued.
Durational Peformance, 2021 - 2024
A performative workshop inviting participants to reconnect with their bodies, with themselves. We celebrate being alive, being in a body—our body—feeling emotions and moving together with them. Music and self written texts accompany the workshop. This workshop is based on dance, but is designed for non-professional dancers and all types of bodies. As a dancer and dance teacher, I founded this workshop in 2021. Previous clients include Gay Haze, Horst Arts & Music Festival, 51N4E, and Queers on the Move.