CTC Dance Company (CTC) is renowned for creating dynamic and thought-provoking dance theatre productions that explore and ignite vital conversations around mental health awareness and identity in the 21st century.
The company is committed to fostering empathy, awareness, and connection through bold, contemporary storytelling, while also delivering accessible and inclusive identity-focused workshops that empower aspiring creatives and performers from LGBTQIA+ communities to express their authentic selves through dance and movement therapy. Founded in 2017 by Artistic Director and award-winning theatre choreographer Christopher Tendai, CTC is led by his extensive professional experience, including performing in the original West End casts of Hamilton, West Side Story, and Cabaret, and choreographing works such as Wuthering Heights, CAKE, Closer To Heaven, and CTC’s own Wonderland in Alice.
The Tendai Technique evolved from Tendai’s long-standing commitment to helping theatre artists achieve lasting success in their careers, a goal that has guided his work since graduating from college in 2014. Over the past 12 years, Tendai has taught an exceptionally broad spectrum of performers—from young developing dancers through to university students and seasoned professionals—across the UK and internationally, allowing his approach to grow through diverse experiences and needs. Through CTC Dance Company, Chris began developing company intensives in 2018, which proved successful in both theatrical and commercial settings. During the pandemic, this work evolved into Industry Ready, a programme designed to ensure artists could continue training while gaining a deeper understanding of their personal brand in preparation for the industry’s return. Industry Ready ran as weekly training sessions throughout lockdown, consistently supporting and developing artists during a challenging period. In 2025, Tendai reflected on and refined all of his teachings, unapologetically evolving Industry Ready into The Tendai Technique—a structured approach that focuses on specific tools for both physical training and daily practices, empowering artists to sustain and elevate their careers.
CTC’s mission is to provide affordable industry-level training that develops both the physical and mental skills artists need to build a successful and sustainable career in the arts. No matter where you are on your creative journey, we are here to support your next step and help turn your dreams into reality.
Identity
Have you ever looked into the mirror and don’t like what you see?
It’s time to take our masks off with CTC DANCE COMPANY’s award-winning show: IDENTITY, now funded by arts council national lottery. This 75-minute controversial and captivating masterpiece showcases society’s negative perceptions of the individual, and endeavours to explore the inner strength of humanity by celebrating and embracing our unique identities.
A cast of 5 diversely talented performers awaken our emotions to the pains and heartache of life never truly being black or white. Instead this colourful and explosive show combines Contemporary Dance and Afro Beats with spoken word; and live music to punch its way to the truth about relative issues of today’s society. So let’s get connected and inspired, by daring to reveal our true identity.
iNk’d
CTC Dance Company presents a 40minute contemporary dance show exploring the identity of a relationship between a Cis Man and a Transgender Woman.
The show exposes an audience to the modern trials, tribulations and celebrations a transgender couple may combat within society. The show is designed to inform and educate an audience to the importance of transitioning; understand the reasoning behind transitioning; and most importantly expressing that love is universal and transcendent for everyone, though the mental effects these brave people face daily can plague such beauty, which CTC Company physically demonstrates through dance and expressive movement.
The show is a mixture of Contemporary New Style, Physical Theatre and Spoken Word. This show connects and challenges an audience to ask themselves the difficult questions regarding their preconceived notions of: The Trans Community, Mental Health, and LGBTQIA+ Community (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Questioning, Intersex, And or Ally). Through this exposition CTC Dance Company is now initiating conversations and building awareness about gender identity by asking the question: Who do they see when they look in the mirror?
Wonderland In Alice
CTC Dance Company will unpick the timeless story of Lewis Carroll’s classic tale of Alice in Wonderland and reveal an eery transcendent adaptation, displaying a constantly evolving world of: ‘No Rules. No Time. No Binary’ – Wonderland in Alice.
Wonderland in Alice explores this internal struggle and challenges you to open your mind to a world free of binaries, preconceptions, and societal expectations.
Wonderland in Alice will employ universal emotive language to convey empathy and empowerment toward gender awareness and self-authenticity. Delving into the complexities of expressive movement theatre, spoken word, transitioning costumes to depict transformative characters, and composing an all-encompassing original soundscape.
