Higher Education

Choreographic / Movement Workshops explore the collaborative and devising methodology used by VDT to develop and make new work. VDT’s approach requires performers to combine physical and performative skills with personal emotional investment and these workshops reflect that process. Workshops begin with release-based warm-ups, flow into games and structured improvisations, followed by a range of creative tasks that explore how to create meaningful, individual material.  We explore bringing yourself to the work, creating from the ‘inside out’ (rather than throwing shapes), partnering (weight taking and sharing) and assisted jumps, passes and lifts. We can explore ensemble work, slow motion fighting, direct address and methods of ‘staging ideas’ that suits a particular theme. Workshops can also choose to focus work on translating text, testimonies and captured conversation into performance material, the ethics involved and reasons for working in this way. VDT always embed and draw attention to consent, safeguarding and safe working practices in our sessions.

‘It got me to get in touch with an emotional side I have not explored in movement before.’ Masterclass student, Plymouth University 2023

‘I learnt to not feel ashamed of showing what you are really thinking with your movement.’ Royal Ballet School BA student, 2025

To discuss or book a choreographic or Choreographic / Movement Workshop, contact VDT’s Administrator Gemma Morris, admin@vincentdt.com  or call 01273 911616

VDT has over 30 years’ experience designing and delivering socially engaged creative health projects, working in collaboration with grass roots organisations and some of our most ‘at risk’ communities.  Socially Engaged Practice Workshops explore how we work with non-professionals and young people, how to make issue based or theme driven work, how to identify target groups to work with and how to gain consent and maintain respect when using participants’ lived experience as ‘material’ for making work. We explore translating testimony and captured conversations into performance work, ‘staging ideas’, and playing games as creative methodologies. We discuss how to develop appropriate and inclusive work environments, codes of conduct, safety agreements, manage creative expectations and  applying work made in arts and non-arts contexts. Workshops always embed and draw attention to consent, safeguarding and safe working practices.

‘A lot of detailed information about socially engaged practice that is transferable to life in general.’ Bath Spa University, BA Dance student 2025

I have learnt that what you are doing is facilitating skills for others who may not have that previous experience.’ Bath Spa University, BA Dance student 2025

To discuss or book a workshop exploring Socially Engaged Practice, contact VDT’s Administrator Gemma Morris, admin@vincentdt.com  or call 01273 911616

VDT has over 30 years’ experience designing and delivering socially engaged creative health projects, working in collaboration with grass roots organisations and some of our most ‘at risk’ communities. Vincent has produced cutting edge productions with non-professional collaborators based on this practice, that has transformed the lives of those involved and raised awareness of pertinent social issues.

Throughout 2018, Artistic Director Charlotte Vincent worked with Oasis Project, Brighton, using her artistic practice to capture the complex emotional bonds that exist between women and their children, partners, family and friends. Art of Attachment is a dance theatre production on film that shares the lived experience of four women in recovery from substance misuse and physical and sexual violence.  Through real-life testimonies and movement, the production represents the women’s deeply traumatic life experiences but also celebrates their strength and resilience in overcoming adversity. Sharing the work offers students and practitioners to consider the emotional labour of everyone involved.

Dance and Performing Arts students will be introduced to the company and the work by AD Charlotte Vincent, who will screen Art of Attachment and facilitate creative craft activities and encourage reflective discussions to process reactions to the work. 

Watch AD Charlotte Vincent and the women involved in making Art of Attachment explain its impact here.

Students gain an understanding of socially engaged, creative health practice and how it can unlock what cannot always easily be said to positively impact on the personal and professional growth, health, healing and wellbeing of those involved. 

Art of Attachment Facilitated Screenings are invaluable for performing arts students working community settings as part of their course or intending go into community based or creative health practice once they graduate. 

‘I learned a lot about using art as a tool for making for good, making art that really has material meaning and purpose. BA Contemporary Dance student, London Contemporary Dance School, Facilitated Screening London 2025

‘Inspiring and very interesting work. Inspired by how you have given a platform for people who wouldn’t normally have one and how you have facilitated it’ BA Contemporary Dance student, London Contemporary Dance School, Facilitated Screening London 2025

‘At first I was wondering how this film itself was helping individuals, but then I realised its not about the film but the process’ BA Contemporary Dance student, London Contemporary Dance School, Facilitated Screening London 2025

To discuss a Facilitated Screening, contact VDT’s Administrator Gemma Morris: admin@vincentdt.com or call 01273 911616  

Two of VDT’s acclaimed full length productions,, Broken Chords (2005) and Motherland (2012) are available to license for BA performing arts and dance students in HEI’s to study Vincent’s contemporary choreographic work for one academic year.

A private link to the production is made available for students (plus DVDs if requested), with fees discussed with the company. AD Charlotte Vincent is also available to deliver a seminar or practical workshop based on the production to cement students’ understanding of the work for an additional fee. Students can also access free Resources online, including VDT Practices  to accompany the work.

‘The students really enjoyed being challenged, and lots of them have responded very positively to the debates that took place and the discussion of Broken Chords. They have all said they really enjoyed the session!’ Head of Degree Programme, Royal Ballet School, 2025

To discuss Licensing VDT’s productions, contact VDT’s Administrator Gemma Morris: admin@vincentdt.com or call 01273 911616  

Four of VDT’s full length productions VIRGIN TERRITORY (2016) on stage, VIRGIN TERRITORY on film (2017), SHUT DOWN on stage (2017) and SHUT DOWN on film (2018) are available onDigtial Theatre + with associated resources. You can access these VDT productions by searching for Vincent Dance Theatre on Digital Theatre + if your HEI subscribes to this platform. 

VDT has over 30 years’ experience designing and delivering socially engaged creative health projects, working in collaboration with grass roots organisations and some of our most ‘at risk’ communities.  As well as our extensive work delivering movement-based workshops and modules in Performing Arts BA courses, VDT works with Social Work Departments to train and engage students in creative health practice. This aims to further their understanding of the role the arts can play in understanding their clients and in developing wellbeing for themselves. 

‘As social work students they are already aware of using creativity in a recovery journey, but seeing such a powerful performance from users of services was able to make this real and broadened their perceptions of this.’ Senior Lecturer in Social Work, University of Brighton

Vincent has also produced cutting edge productions with non-professional collaborators based on this practice, that has transformed the lives of those involved and raised awareness of pertinent social issues. 

Throughout 2018, Artistic Director Charlotte Vincent worked with Oasis Project, Brighton, using her artistic practice to capture the complex emotional bonds that exist between women and their children, partners, family and friends. Art of Attachment is a dance theatre production on film that shares the lived experience of four women in recovery from substance misuse and physical and sexual violence.  Through real-life testimonies and movement, the production represents the women’s deeply traumatic life experiences but also celebrates their strength and resilience in overcoming adversity. 

VDT has facilitated screenings of Art of Attachment with Social Work students at University of Brighton and University of Essex and for practising Social Workers, clinical psychologists and attachment lead therapists in Brighton, Birmingham and Coventry, offering participants the opportunity to see beyond their own practice to consider the emotional labour involved in recovery by families caught in cycles of trauma. 

Facilitated by Charlotte Vincent, these trauma informed screenings introduce students to the company, its creative health practice, screen VDT’s Art of Attachment and facilitate a number of creative self-regulating craft activities to process reactions to the work alongside discussions of the themes and issues it raises.

Watch Artistic Director Charlotte Vincent and the women involved in making Art of Attachment explain its impact here.

‘The stories provided have helped me see that there is a person with their own voice and experiences behind the labels, stigmas and challenges experienced working with service users struggling with substance addiction.’ Social Work Student University of Brighton, 2023

‘It was very hard hitting, in particular it was useful as a social worker to consider the parents’ experience (when children are removed into care).’  Social Work Student University of Brighton

‘I learnt how the creative arts can support recovery from trauma and provide people with hope and new life’ Social Work Student University of Brighton

‘It has made me more mindful about the language I use in my professional career and the impact on service users’ Social Work Student University of Brighton

‘There is no sentimentality in Art of Attachment … it does not ask us to judge or to pity – but allows us to witness the exhausting labours involved in experiencing, acting out and recovering from trauma.’ Professor Rachel Thomson, Childhood and Youth Studies, University of Sussex

Facilitated Screenings could also be invaluable for Health, Social Care, Childhood and Youth Studies, Sociology, Education, Policing, Gender Studies students,

To discuss a Facilitated Screening for your HEI, contact VDT’s Administrator Gemma Morris: admin@vincentdt.com or call 01273 911616