VincentDanceTheatre's video: VDT PRACTICES: PARTNERING

Artistic Director, Charlotte Vincent speaks about the importance of contact improvisation and partnering, and how these practices are used in @VincentDanceTheatre work and processes. See what Charlotte has planned for the next four years: https://youtu.be/G62g1KKr-Ww Vincent Dance Theatre (VDT) produces and distributes compelling and socially engaged dance theatre work on stage, on film and across online platforms. Driven and informed by an ongoing research process that explores the complex tensions between ‘community’ and ‘professional’ practice, Vincent’s work embraces the voices of, and creates opportunities for, marginalised communities and is applied and explored through a wide range of innovative participatory opportunities including; professional development, mentoring, teaching and learning, social engagement and dialogue and debate events. VDT aims to enable creative agency – converting participants into audiences and audiences into participants – to move people and to make them think. Vincent’s work is researched in collaboration with targeted community groups and individuals, whose voices become embedded into the work, with participants often performing in the work. Vincent’s methodology is trauma informed, consciously inclusive and integrates professionals and non-professionals at every stage of the creative process. VDT uses its public platform to open up debate around crucial issues of our time -providing a space for voices that might not otherwise be heard, including children, young people and women. VDT makes significant claims for gender equality, equality of opportunity and social change and the organisation places safeguarding and a protective mindset at the heart of all its practice and operations. Vincent is a pioneer and vocal advocate for parents and carers working in the performing arts and a sector leader in developing and advocating for safe creative practice both with vulnerable groups and within the dance community itself. VDT is a National Portfolio Organisation, funded by @Arts Council England and based in Brighton, UK. VDT is Associate Company at @Brighton Dome .