artists
Vincent E. Thomas
(Artistic Director) dance,
choreographer and teacher, received his MFA in Dance from Florida State University and a BME in Music from the
University of South Carolina. 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 performed 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, a 2007 & 2005 Maryland State Arts
Council Individual Artist Award in Choreography, two 2006 Metro DC Dance Awards for Emerging Choreographer, and Outstanding
New Work (for his evening length work the “Grandmother Project”), 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).