About
Launched by Charlotte Vincent and Yorkshire Dance in March 2012, Juncture was an initiative, designed to bring new work, professional development, critical debate and innovative performance practice to Yorkshire.
Juncture was conceived by Charlotte Vincent in collaboration with Yorkshire Dance, and the inaugural programme was curated by Charlotte in March 2012: four weeks of residencies, performances, workshops, a symposium and critical debates, programmed with an emphasis on female-led work and experimental, cross-disciplinary practice.
“I invited some of my closest working colleagues to be part of this initial programme – funny, smart women (and a few renegade men), who have something to say and a unique way of saying it. Their work is surprising, bold and intelligent. They are quiet anarchists, searching for an appropriate language to say what they need to say. They are mature, experienced makers, researchers, producers, writers, performers, dancers, managers, musicians and composers – artists whose work needs to be seen and whose voices need to be heard.” Charlotte Vincent
Credits
Curated by
Charlotte Vincent
Artistic Director & Chief Executive (She/Her)
Charlotte formed Vincent Dance Theatre (VDT) in 1994 and has directed all the company’s collaborative work to date, on stage and on film. Vincent has also designed the work since 2005 and performed with the company until 2002. Vincent’s distinctive, contemporary choreography ‘stages ideas’ and embeds her own and her collaborators’ lived experience within the work, raising awareness of personal and political issues, breaking down the barriers between professional and non-professional performers and in VDT’s film installation and engagement spaces, between audience and participant.
Vincent is recognised as a sector leader in movement based socially engaged creative practice and creative health, particularly around her work with care-experienced young people and women at risk, championing gender equality and advocating for best practice to support parents and carers working in the performing arts. Her pioneering work on film ensired VDT were ‘covid ready and able to work through Covid and consequently allows Vincent’s work to be purposefully ‘applied’ in non-arts settings as well within conventional arts venues and settings.
Charlotte is an experienced speaker, lecturer and Mentor, working with early and mid-career artists to develop their creative practice and production work. Vincent has also worked as a director, dramaturg, and facilitator for other artists and companies, most notably Two Destination Language (Near Gone, winner Total Theatre Awards for Innovation and Experimentation 2014), Keira Martin (Here Comes Trouble Sadlers Wells Wild Card and Good Blood) and facilitating early R&D for Sue MacLaine’s Can I Start Again Please (2013).
In the past, Vincent has performed and collaborated with Professor Liz Aggiss as V&A Artefacts, curated an inaugural 4-week festival of experimental performance practice, Juncture at Yorkshire Dance in Leeds and co-hosted The Table, a forum to nurture dialogue across disciplines between established female artists with Dr Claire Macdonald. Charlotte sat on the Artists Advisory Group at Yorkshire Dance for several years and Steering Group for Dance UK’s National Choreographic Conference in 2013. Most recently she has been a driving force behind the development of the London Road Network in Brighton, a collaborative group of organisations and individuals working towards deeper interaction between arts orgs and grassroots organisations in one of Brighton’s more deprived areas.
Vincent is Safeguarding Lead for VDT, trained in Trauma Informed Practice, Mental Health First Aid, therapeutic parenting, and First Aid. She completed a Clore Leadership Short Course (2010), the Clore Programme for CEO/Artistic Directors (2011) and Clore Brave Conversations Programme (2013). Vincent is also trained in FA Football Coaching.
Vincent has written chapters and been written about in several Routledge Publications (resources) and PhD’s, and her work Art of Attachment lies at the heart of Dr Cath Lambert‘s imminent publication Troubling Adoption.
In 2023, Dr Vincent gained a PhD in Performing Arts from Canterbury Christ Church University, reflecting on VDT’s socially engaged practice, supervised by Professor Angela Pickard, Director of the Sidney de Haan Centre for Arts and Health.
Dr Charlotte Vincent lives in Brighton with her son, who loves mountain biking, fishing and gaming.
Artists
Claire MacDonald
Antonia Grove
Participation Producer (She/Her)
Toni is a choreographer, writer, filmmaker, facilitator, lecturer and award-winning performer with over two decades experience leading Contemporary Dance and cross-artform collaborations. As Artistic Director of Probe (2004-2018), Toni reshaped the industry with ‘boundary-blurring’ (The Times) multidisciplinary & experimental productions, devising and performing work commissioned by internationally celebrated choreographers, directors, writers and cross artform collaborators.
As a performer she has worked in prestigious companies including Rambert Dance Company, Walker Dance Park Music, Company Wayne Mcgregor, The National Theatre, Bonachela Dance Company, Teac Damsa, The Cholmondeleys, Charles Linehan Company, Clod Ensemble and Vincent Dance Theatre (VDT). Performing physically & technically demanding contemporary dance repertoire (Merce Cunningham, Mats Ek, Christopher Bruce, Jiri Kylian, Richard Alston, Siobhan Davies, Ohad Naharin etc), alongside cross artform dance and theatre work (Lindsey Kemp, Lea Anderson, Michael Keegan-Dolan, Wendy Houstoun, Matthias Sperling, New Art Club etc).
Toni has worked with VDT since 2015, performing and collaborating on: Underworld, Virgin Territory, Art of Attachment and Hold Tight.
Toni was a winner of the first Place Prize by Rafael Bonachela, has been nominated 3 times for the Critics Circle National Dance Awards- best female dancer (modern)- and a Time Out Live Award. Awards for Probe include: Guglielmo Ebreo Award & London Theatre Award nomination. After six full-length touring productions with Probe she now leads projects under my own name.
Toni regularly leads, facilitates and designs trauma-attuned creative spaces for marginalised, mixed ability and multi-generational groups and individuals to find artistic expression through art/dance with safety and access at the core.
Toni recently obtained her MA: Creative Practice from Trinity Laban, researching relationships between female hormones and creativity. She has 3 children and is an activist for mothers working in the Arts.
Photo: Jo Thorne
Aurora Lubos
Artistic Associate
As an independent artist she created solo performances “Knife, Horse and Stairs.”, “Unfinished” and “Zanzibar”, and installation/performances “Still Alive” (2011) and “Food Cycle” (2011), ” Four corners” (2010), ” .No 1″ (2003), and several short animations “winter 2010”. In 2005 she was nominated to The Rolex Mentor and Protégé Arts Initiative. In the past she has worked extensively with Dance Theatre of Gdansk and Dada von Bzdülöw. She collaborated with Avi Kaiser, Tatiana Baganowa, Jerzy Mazzoll, Bronek Duży. With other three artist Jacek Staniszewski, Oskar Martin and Patrycja Kujawska she co-founded KLM’S Group and created “Te Takie Te”.
Aurora first came across VDT’s work when Charlotte was invited to Gdansk to workshop choreographic ideas as part of the Baltic University of Dance Winter Explosion festival. For VDT Aurora has performed in Caravan of Lies (1999), made and toured Drop Dead Gorgeous (2001), Let The Mountains Lead You To Love (2003), Punch Drunk (2004), Broken Chords (2005), Fairy Tale (2006), Look At Me Now, Mummy (2007), If We Go On (2009) and Motherland (2012-2014). Aurora lives in Poland.
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Audience feedback
“Congratulations for a stunning festival: it was the best thing I’ve seen in the Leeds dance world for a long time (ever?)”
Film Maker, Leeds
“A remarkable achievement and much needed in this dance climate… one of the great things about Juncture – it’s asking some important questions and providing a space to debate some of the potential answers.”
Jamie Watton, CEO South East Dance
“Programming the festival, Charlotte Vincent chose the work of strong female artists who wittily and wisely address the notion of age and the female body in performance, a festival with an inspiring female theme saw powerful minds and bodies of difference.”
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