Gravity & Levity, Shift, Corn Exchange, Newbur
The Times, 8 April 2008
Lindsey Butcher has been following a dual career path as a contemporary dancer and aerialist for nigh on 20 years.
Look At Me Now, Mummy
The Observer, 9 March 2008
Small but beautiful.
Extract from Take Your Partners? No Thanks
The Observer, 9 March 2008
Test Run sees Orlik dryly explaining the absence of the rest of the Vincent Dance Theatre ensemble - 'Two with broken legs ... one in rehab' - and rejoicing in the chance to dance 'without the usual things getting in the way. Other dancers, for example'.
Act One
The Herald, 1 February 2008
Aurora Lubos can't keep her eyes off us, the imagined audience in her balloon-strewn bomb-site of a kitchen.
Act One
The Herald, 1 February 2008
Test Run is a tremendous fusion of virtuoso musicianship and mesmerising dance.
Test Run, Crucible Studio, Sheffield
Sheffield Telegraph, 5 October 2007
The distinction between contemporary dance and multi-performance and physical theatre is becoming increasingly arbitrary and Sheffield's Vincent Dance Theatre continue to push the boundaries.
Test Run, Crucible Studio, Sheffield
Sheffield Star, 2 October 2007
Here’s a surprise, a piece of contemporary dance that is both short and to the point and, even more strikingly, extremely funny.
Brits Recapture New Jersey – Charlotte Vincent dances to divorce
The Village Voice, 3 April 2007
Rows of wooden chairs fill the stage. There must be over a hundred of them. A huge cluster of lightbulbs pretends to be a chandelier. Two soft chords are repeating: low-high, low-high. Patrycja Kujawska, barefoot and wearing a dark dress, makes her way slowly, bent over, between the first two rows of chairs.
Multiple Perspectives on a Relationship’s End
New York Times, 24 March 2007
Vincent’s 90-minute dance, performed on Thursday night as part of the Montclair State University’s adventurous Peak Performances series, is astonishingly original in the way it takes the familiar and turns it on its head. In the process Broken Chords shows the subtlety with which expressive movement, choreographed by an experienced and inspired artist, can cut to the heart of everyday reality.
Broken Chords, The Place, London
The Independent, 19 March 2007
The vitality of Britain's independent dance scene is a thing of wonder to dance watchers abroad, particularly in America, where there is no equivalent of our Arts Council to help keep small companies afloat. Most weeks of the year the Robin Howard Dance Theatre at The Place hosts productions by those companies, whose work - tiny budgets notwithstanding - is often imaginatively ambitious.