Broken Chords, The Place, London
Ballet.co.uk Magazine, 30 March 2006
Broken Chords is hilarious and sad all at once. Amongst all the action, a woman (Aurora Lubos) makes several incompetent attempts to kill herself by various means – once by pulling her skirt over her head and smoking frantically under it, and when this inexplicably fails, ‘hanging’ herself by attaching her leg to a chair, putting her head in a suitcase and kicking the chair away – amazingly, this attempt fails too.
Broken Chords, The Place, London
The Guardian, 11 March 2006
Vincent pulls off a powerful feat - creating a moving portrait of grief while making us laugh.
Broken Chords, The Place, London
Metro, 9 March 2006
Charlotte Vincent has struck gold with Broken Chords, which unflinchingly charts the collapse of her marriage. This is her break-up album and, hewn from the heart, it’s a work of rare beauty.
Extract From a Dancing British Brood in a Feast of Fancies
The New York Times, British Dance Review Edition, 25 February 2006
Charlotte Vincent (from Sheffield) is also a practitioner of physical theater, but with a far more disturbing emotional range. Her Broken Chords was about the most harrowing yet inspiring transmutation of personal pain into artistic achievement that I have encountered.
Broken Chords, Lyceum Theatre, Sheffield
The Times, 20 February 2006
Charlotte Vincent is not the first artist to raid her own life for creative inspiration, nor will she be the last. Broken Chords, the latest full-length show that the Sheffield-based choreographer and director has made for Vincent Dance Theatre, is one of the more fascinating examples of this self-regarding genre in recent memory.
Grief encounter – How to dance your way out of matrimonial distress
The Observer, 19 February 2006
Two years ago, the choreographer Charlotte Vincent was riding high. Her Sheffield-based company, Vincent Dance Theatre, was well positioned at the bruisingly experimental end of the spectrum...
Save The Last Dance
Oxford Times, 2 December 2005
David Bellan enjoys Anjali Dance Company’s work in the Oxford’s first Disables Arts Festival.
Broken Chords
EdinburghGuide.com, 12 November 2005
Broken Chords is a powerful piece of dance theatre. It revolves around the turbulence created in a human soul profoundly affected by the break-up of a relationship - "a future that never began".
“I’m sorry that you’ve forgotten how to be happy”
ScottishTheatre.co.uk, 12 November 2005
the piece is daring and innovative and thrives on a masterful delivery from TC Howard (on the verge of a nervous breakdown) and the dynamic musicians and dancers who share the stage.
Welsh Independent Dance, Surrender Yourself To Me
The Western Mail, 25 May 2005
Milan Kundera has a chapter in his novel ignorance where he meditates on the different words in different languages for nostalgia. For his characters, like him, are émigrés from their native Czechoslovakia.