Vincent E. Thomas Vincent E. Thomas, dancer, choreographer and teacher,
received his MFA in Dance from Florida State University and a BME in Music from the University of South Carolina.
Prior to pursuing his graduate degree at FSU, he taught music in Columbia, SC and danced with Dancework Jazz Company,
serving as principal dancer and Associate Artistic Director. He was a scholarship student and staff assistant for the
American Dance Festival (‘95-‘97), and returned to ADF (1999) to assist teaching Community Crossover. He has danced with
Dance Repertory Theatre (FSU), Randy James Dance Works (NY/NJ), Liz Lerman Dance Exchange (MD), and presently a guest
performer with EDGEWORKS Dance Theater (DC), and an adjunct artist with Liz Lerman Dance Exchange. His choreography has
been presented at various national and international venues including Barcelona and Madrid, Spain, Edinburgh Fringe
Festival, Scotland, and Avignon, France. In July 2008, he will perform in the World Congress on Dance Research in Athens,
Greece, and the International Choreographers’ Showcase in Bari, Italy. His company
VTDance, performed with the Ahn Trio
at the 2005 Bands of America Summer Symposium. He was selected as one of eleven choreographers from around the world to
convene for the 2005 Omi International Dance Collective and served as the guest mentor for the 2007 Dance Omi residents.
Vincent is a recipient of a 2008 Kennedy Center Local Dance Commission Project Award, a 2008 Baltimore Office of
Promotion & the Arts Grant, two 2006 Metro DC Dance Awards for Emerging Choreographer, and Outstanding New Work
(for his evening length work the “Grandmother Project”), , a 2007 & 2005 Maryland State Arts Council Individual Artist
Award in Choreography, 2005 City Arts & Humanities Individual Artist Grant, 2004 Maryland State Arts Council Individual
Artist Award in Solo Dance Performance and the 2004 Henry C. Welcome Fellowship. He is a 2007-2008 Artist Scholar in
Residence at Michigan State University (MI), a faculty member for the Urban Bush Women Summer Institutes (NY), and an
Assistant Professor of Dance at Towson University (MD).
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