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夏洛特•文森 CHARLOTTE VINCENT  編舞家/Choreographer

畢業於緒飛德大學主修英國文學與戲劇。接受過現代舞、放鬆技巧與接觸即興的訓練。她在1994年創立文森舞蹈劇場。

她參與了文森舞蹈劇場大部分的編作與演出。她也接受各地的邀約編作舞蹈,包括奧地利、英國、西班牙以及台北的越界舞團。同時也參與英國多所舞團的演出邀約。許多的大學及舞蹈學校曾邀請她去舉行工作坊與演講,在1995年參與全英多所監獄的受刑人體能訓練教導計畫,並應邀依此經驗出版作品。

在1998年與作家攝影師及視覺設計者合作出版作品。曾兩度受邀至波蘭的多所舞團交流演出,並曾在瑞士及奧地利舉行工作坊。夏洛特曾獲得許多獎項與獎學金,並因此而至美國研習放鬆技巧與接觸即興。舞團的營運與製作也受到英國官方大力的支持與贊助。最近舞團剛獲得約克夏地區文化組織提供獎學金,讓夏洛特能出國接受外界藝術的薰陶與刺激,以為舞團新世紀的營運打好基礎。

文森舞蹈劇場美學觀
創立於1994年,舞團作品挑戰傳統的舞蹈美學觀、性別議題、探討當代議題,與肢體語彙。作品情感強烈,肢體表現激烈。每個作品都兼具劇場的特性與舞蹈的動感。

VDT演出場地包括中小型劇場非舞蹈演出空間。作品包括現場演出、錄製影片及出版品。舞團致力舞蹈教育活動,舉辦工作坊、巡演、並且參加許多不同的教育及社區藝文活動。

Charlotte Vincent graduated from Sheffield University in 1989 with a first class Honours Degree in English Literature and Drama. She trained in contemporary dance, via trapeze, release technique and contact improvisation. She formed Vincent Dance Theatre in 1994.

She has directed all and performed in all but one of Vincent Dance Theatre live and film works to date. She has been commissioned to make new dance theatre work in Austria, across the UK, and Taiwan. Charlotte has taught at many universities, dance schools across the UK. She has toured work, run dance residencies and physical theatre workshops with male and female offenders in more than 30 prisons across the UK and worked with female ex-offenders at Clean Break Theatre Company, London.

In 1998 Charlotte collaborated with writer, photographer and graphic designer to create a publication body:ink. In 1999, She has worked with five different dance companies in Gdansk, Poland at the Baltic University of Dance Winter Dance Explosion Season, and has recently made a repeat visit teaching and performing there. She has led workshops in Switzerland and Austria, at the Bruckner Konservatorium, in Linz.

In 1997 Charlotte won a Lisa Ullmann Travel Scholarship to train in release technique with Joan Skinner in San Francisco, and in contact improvisation and body mind centering in New York.

VINCENT DANCE THEATRE
Founded in 1994, Vincent Dance Theatre produces work (live, on film, digital and published) which challenges conventional values in dance and gender politics. Under the artistic direction of Charlotte Vincent, the work addresses issues of contemporary relevance and insists on finding meaning in movement. Often text informed, productions steal from reality to create a believable universe in which a series of events take place that reflect the personal politics and individual physicality of the artistic collaborators involved.

The company’s work is emotionally bold and physically demanding. Each new project works to examine and develop a language that has both the intention and integrity of theatre and the poetic athleticism of dance. Vincent Dance Theatre tour live work to small and middle scale theatre venues, installation work to non theatre spaces, distribute dance on film to cross arts venues and film and dance festivals in the UK and internationally, and explore digital dance through digital video and the web.