Caldonia is a choreographer, movement director and movement teacher. Her work is driven by a fascination with how movement reveals character, emotion and experience. Drawing on somatic and contact improvisation practices, she creates nuanced physical worlds and embodied storytelling for theatre, film and live performance.

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As a Choreographer, her dance work has been shown at: The Royal Opera House Linbury Theatre, The Dance Centre (Vancouver), The Southbank Centre, The Place, on Channel 4, Birmingham International Dance Festival, Swindon Dance, DanceXchange, Edinburgh & Brighton Fringe Festivals, in schools, hospitals and more. She has choreographed and movement directed for music videos, musical theatre and plays.

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As a Movement Director, she has been Associate Movement to Polly Bennett on the West-End production People, Places & Things and Twelfth Night at The Barbican for The Royal Shakespeare Company. 

 

She holds an MA in Creative Practice from Laban, and teaches Contact Improvisation and Release-based Technique classes in professional, vocational and community settings.

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The work Weight/Wait (co-created by Caldonia & Kathy Richardson) received Arts Council England funding three times for the creation and production of a 40-minute show that toured schools, hospitals and theatres in 2017-2019, culminating in the creation of ALEX The Film in 2021.

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Caldonia was the co-director (with Adam Lenson) and choreographer of the musical The Quentin Dentin Show, which has enjoyed production runs at The Edinburgh Fringe (2015) and in London at the Arts Theatre (2016) and Tristan Bates Theatre (2017).  

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