Vincent Dance Theatre

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Aurora Lubos

Aurora Lubos

Devised and Performed by Charlotte Vincent and Claire Macdonald. With original text by Russell Hoban and original video footage from Impact Theatre Co-operative's Carrier Frequency. Traces of Her was filmed and performed as part of Juncture 2012 at Yorkshire Dance, curated by Charlotte Vincent. Soundtrack Graeme Miller and Steve Shill from the original soundtrack of Carrier Frequency Text Russell Hoban and Rainer Maria Rilke Video Andy Wood With thanks to Impact Theatre Cooperative Funded by Vincent Dance Theatre through Arts Council England National Portfolio funding

Over three days in May 2012 the city of Leeds became the canvas for a remarkable multi-location event curated by internationally acclaimed artist-filmmakers The Quay Brothers. Overworlds & Underworlds was created by The Quays with composer Gavin Bryars and choreographers Gary Clarke, Douglas Thorpe, Daniel De Andrade (Northern Ballet Theatre), Rachel Krische and VDT's Artistic Director Charlotte Vincent. Charlotte made a new work with Phoenix Dance Theatre especially for this event, seen in this video.

"We have made something to show you, but we are not sure how much it is worth... so we are going to give you your money back" Thus begins the latest work, made in just four days in residence at Yorkshire Dance Leeds, by V&A Artefacts (Charlotte Vincent and Liz Aggiss). Set to a repeated soundtrack of the Dance of the Knights by Sergei Prokofiev, Blurred Vision is an exploration of nothing. No thing. Nothing at all. Nada. Rien. Niente. Nicht. A cocky, clever couple, concerned with comprehensible context, conceptual clarity and the simple execution of complex content, Blurred Vision finds Vincent and Aggiss exploring the void, searching for something - anything - that can shed light on the questions 'What on earth are we doing here?', 'Why are we doing this?', 'Would you pay good money to see this?' and, perhaps most importantly, 'when will it all end?'

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VDT undertaking research and development The Point in Eastleigh, Hampshire during July 2011, to develop initial ideas for a new middle scale production for 2012 provisionally titled 'Motherland'. The work looks at the myth of having it all. Charlotte Vincent, VDT's Artistic Director, invited a fantastic group of artists to join in this creative process: Janusz Orlik, Aurora Lubos, Rob Clarke, Greig Cooke, Liz Aggiss, Jo Shapland, Fernanda Prata, Luisa Lazzaro, Kip Johnson, Claudia Molitor, Scott Smith, Toby Park, Dom Martin, Ruth and Leah Ben Tovim and Wendy Houstoun. Motherland aims to be an inter-generational work involving children, young people, mid-career and mature performers. The work will be devised through a series of interventions, critical debates and residencies in venues across the UK and is commissioned by The Dome Brighton, Yorkshire Dance, South East Dance, Newbury Corn Exchange, Peak Performances at Montclair State University and The Point in Eastleigh.

VDT undertaking research and development The Point in Eastleigh, Hampshire during July 2011, to develop initial ideas for a new middle scale production for 2012 provisionally titled 'Motherland'. The work looks at the myth of having it all. Charlotte Vincent, VDT's Artistic Director, invited a fantastic group of artists to join in this creative process: Janusz Orlik, Aurora Lubos, Rob Clarke, Greig Cooke, Liz Aggiss, Jo Shapland, Fernanda Prata, Luisa Lazzaro, Kip Johnson, Claudia Molitor, Scott Smith, Toby Park, Dom Martin, Ruth and Leah Ben Tovim and Wendy Houstoun. Motherland aims to be an inter-generational work involving children, young people, mid-career and mature performers. The work will be devised through a series of interventions, critical debates and residencies in venues across the UK and is commissioned by The Dome Brighton, Yorkshire Dance, South East Dance, Newbury Corn Exchange, Peak Performances at Montclair State University and The Point in Eastleigh.

VDT undertaking research and development The Point in Eastleigh, Hampshire during July 2011, to develop initial ideas for a new middle scale production for 2012 provisionally titled 'Motherland'. The work looks at the myth of having it all. Charlotte Vincent, VDT's Artistic Director, invited a fantastic group of artists to join in this creative process: Janusz Orlik, Aurora Lubos, Rob Clark, Greig Cooke, Liz Aggiss, Jo Shapland, Fernanda Prata, Luisa Lazzaro, Kip Johnson, Claudia Molitor, Scott Smith, Toby Park, Dom Martin, Ruth and Leah Ben Tovim and Wendy Houstoun. Motherland aims to be an inter-generational work involving children, young people, mid-career and mature performers. The work will be devised through a series of interventions, critical debates and residencies in venues across the UK and is commissioned by The Dome Brighton, Yorkshire Dance, South East Dance, Newbury Corn Exchange, Peak Performances at Montclair State University and The Point in Eastleigh.

VDT undertaking research and development The Point in Eastleigh, Hampshire during July 2011, to develop initial ideas for a new middle scale production for 2012 provisionally titled 'Motherland'. The work looks at the myth of having it all. Charlotte Vincent, VDT's Artistic Director, invited a fantastic group of artists to join in this creative process: Janusz Orlik, Aurora Lubos, Rob Clark, Greig Cooke, Liz Aggiss, Jo Shapland, Fernanda Prata, Luisa Lazzaro, Kip Johnson, Claudia Molitor, Scott Smith, Toby Park, Dom Martin, Ruth and Leah Ben Tovim and Wendy Houstoun. Motherland aims to be an inter-generational work involving children, young people, mid-career and mature performers. The work will be devised through a series of interventions, critical debates and residencies in venues across the UK and is commissioned by The Dome Brighton, Yorkshire Dance, South East Dance, Newbury Corn Exchange, Peak Performances at Montclair State University and The Point in Eastleigh.

VDT doing research and developemnt The Point in Eastleigh, Hampshire for a month, in July 2011, to develop initial ideas for a new middle scale production for 2012 provisionally titled 'Motherland'. The work looks at the myth of having it all. Charlotte Vincent, VDT's Artistic Director, invited a fantastic group of artists to join in this creative process: Janusz Orlik, Aurora Lubos, Rob Clarke, Greig Cooke, Liz Aggiss, Jo Shapland, Fernanda Prata, Luisa Lazzaro, Kip Johnson, Claudia Molitor, Scott Smith, Toby Park, Dom Martin, Ruth and Leah Ben Tovim and Wendy Houstoun. Motherland aims to be an inter-generational work involving children, young people, mid-career and mature performers. The work will be devised through a series of interventions, critical debates and residencies in venues across the UK and is commissioned by The Dome Brighton, Yorkshire Dance, South East Dance, Newbury Corn Exchange, Peak Performances at Montclair State University and The Point in Eastleigh.

If We Go On the investigation of language and sound at the centre of the work, and through miniature dances, stuttering songs and militant manifestos embraces uncertainty, hesitancy and not knowing. An exceptional ensemble of multi-tasking performers and musicians morph words into movement, shunt gesture into sound and sometimes burst into song to conjure up the performance of their lives. If We Go On is a relentless succession of splintered transactions, where words lose their meaning, music falls apart and dance leads itself up a blind and exhausting alley. Anarchic, nostalgic and full of dark intelligent humour, If We Go On asks: If you had one last dance in you, what shape would it take? For video clips and more information go to www.IfWeGoOn.co.uk

Audience reactions at the premiere of Vincent Dance Theatre's new production, If We Go On, filmed at Corn Exchange Newbury (Oct 09).

Double Vision is a collaboration by veteran anarchic performer Liz Aggiss and internationally acclaimed choreographer Charlotte Vincent. A female double act with a combined age of 96, Double Vision sees two of the nations favourite dance creators trying to negotiate a language that neither of them usually speaks. Basing dance vignettes around rhythmical structures found in the Queen of the Night Aria from Mozart's opera The Magic Flute, the resulting work sits somewhere between live art and dance. A kind of female Morecombe and Wise doing a bit of self-penned Beckett.