PERFORMANCE LECTURE SERIES.

The Centre for Practice-based Research in the Arts and School of Creative Arts and Industries presents Charlotte Vincent’s Socially Engaged Practice.

Charlotte Vincent is Artistic Director and CEO of Vincent Dance Theatre and has directed all the company’s work to date, since founding the company in 1994. Since 2012, Vincent has developed an accessible and inclusive approach to making new work that interrogates who we are and how we live today and is undertaking a PhD, under the supervision of Professor Angela Pickard, reflecting on her socially engaged choreographic practice.

Each production begins with Vincent’s research in the community with targeted groups - most recently working with substance-misusing women and care-experienced young people - gathering personal testimonies that are embedded in the work. Each work is also designed to produce multiple outcomes from the same creative enquiry, widely distributed on stage, on film and online. The results of this ‘layered repertoire’ approach can then also be ‘applied’ in arts and health, social care and family intervention contexts to stimulate debate and raise awareness of the issues involved.

This performance lecture focuses on Vincent’s socially-engaged practice and the methodology used to draw powerful performances from professional and non-professional performers alike in her two most recent productions In Loco Parentis and Art of Attachment.

Please do not attend if you are experiencing a high temperature, cough or a loss or change to your sense of smell or taste. Face coverings are compulsory within University buildings, unless you are exempt.