
Charlotte Vincent
ARTISTIC DIRECTOR / CHIEF EXECUTIVE
Charlotte formed Vincent Dance Theatre (VDT) in 1994 and has directed all the company’s work to date on stage, on film and online. Vincent has also designed the work since 2005 and devised and performed with the company until 2002. Charlotte’s distinctive choreography is artistically progressive and intellectually rigorous. Vincent is recognised as a sector leader in socially engaged creative practice with young people and women at risk, championing gender equality, distributing work on film and online and advocating for best practice to support parents and carers working in the performing arts.
Charlotte is an experienced Mentor working with early and mid-career artists to develop their practice. 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).
Vincent collaborated with Liz Aggiss to perform as V&A Artefacts, curated an inaugural 4-week festival of experimental, female led performance / practice at Yorkshire Dance in Leeds called Juncture and co-hosted The Table, a forum to nurture dialogue across disciplines between established female artists with 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. She was commissioned to develop
Vincent is expert in Safeguarding vulnerable adults and young people within the arts and acts as Safeguarding Lead / Officer for VDT, expert in ensuring a protective mindset is in place across the company and its work. Vincent is a trained First Aider and trained in Mental Health 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, First Aid and Safeguarding and from 2022- 24 was Assistant Coach for Withdean Youth Whites Under 11 and Under 12 boys football team who won the Mid-Sussex U12 League undefeated in 2024.
In 2023, Vincent gained a PhD in Performing Arts from Canterbury Christ Church University, reflecting on VDT’s socially engaged choreographic practice, supervised by Professor Angela Pickard.
In 2024/25 she is developing Vincent Works, a new online resource and archive capturing 30 years of Vincent’s creative practice.
‘One of the most important feminist artists working in Britain today. Contemporary dance fans should beat a path to her door.’ The Observer