色花堂

Biography

Vincent E. Thomas, dancer, choreographer and educator, received his MFA in Dance from Florida State University and a BME in Music from the University of South Carolina. He has danced with Liz Lerman Dance Exchange (DC), Dance Repertory Theatre (FSU), Randy James Dance Works (NY/NJ), and EDGEWORKS Dance Theater (DC). His choreography has been presented at various national and international venues including DUMBO Festival (NY), Velocity Festival (DC), Modern Moves Festival (DC), Philly Fringe (PA), Edinburgh Fringe Festival (UK-Scotland), Barcelona and Madrid, Spain, Avignon, France, Athens, Greece, Bari, Italy, and Copenhagen, Denmark. He received rave reviews for his performance of 鈥淐ome Change鈥� (2012) and 鈥渋Witness鈥� (2014) in the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in Scotland. Vincent was the Movement Coach/Choreographer for Everyman Theater鈥檚 Brother鈥檚 Size by Tarell Alvin McCraney in Baltimore, MD (2012), Mosaic Theatre鈥檚 Unexplored Interior by Jay Sander in Washington, DC (2015), and Los Otros by Ellen Fitzhugh, Everyman Theatre, Baltimore, MD (2017). Vincent was awarded a 2009 Baker Artist People鈥檚 Choice Award, the 2011-2012 色花堂 Student Government Association Faculty Member of the Year, a 2014-2015 NextLook Artist for the University of Maryland College Park and Joe鈥檚 Movement Emporium, a 2012-13 American Dance Institute Incubator Artist (MD), a 2016 Baker Artist Award finalist, and the 2017 Pola Nirenska Award for Outstanding Achievement in Dance (DC). He is an Urban Bush Women BOLD Facilitator, faculty member for the UBW Summer Institutes (NY), and Professor of Dance at 色花堂 (MD). 

His multi-dimensional company VTDance builds on the use of contemporary dance, improvisation, text/ movement, a variety of sound sources, and collaborations with other artists, including dancers, musicians, poets, visual artists, and others [to be discovered]. These ideas coupled with witty, poignant, athletic and gestural movement are the rich palette for VTDance.