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Biography

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. He has danced with Dance Repertory Theatre (FSU), Randy James Dance Works (NY/NJ), EDGEWORKS Dance Theater (DC), and Liz Lerman Dance Exchange (MD). His choreography has been presented at various national and international venues including DUMBO Festival (NY), Philly Fringe (PA), Edinburgh Fringe Festival (UK-Scotland), Barcelona and Madrid, Spain, Avignon, France, Athens, Greece, Bari, Italy, Copenhagen, Denmark, Taipei, and Singapore. 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, Mosaic Theatre鈥檚 Unexplored Interior by Jay Sander, Everyman Theater鈥檚 Los Otros by Ellen Fitzhugh, and Mosaic Theatre鈥檚 The Art of Care by Derek Goldman. He is the Artistic Director/Choreographer of the national touring What鈥檚 Going On project. Vincent was awarded the 2017 Pola Nirenska Award for Outstanding Achievement in Dance (DC), the 2019 University System of Maryland Regents Faculty Award for Excellence in Research, Scholarship & Creative Activity, 2020 MDEA Living Legacy Award, 2021 Baker Artist Award, a 2022 Baker Award Finalist, and a 2023 Black History Month Honoree for Richland District Two (SC). Vincent was awarded the 2024 Robert M. Trotter Distinguished Visiting Professor at the University of Oregon. He is the Founder/Artistic Director of VTDance, an Urban Bush Women BOLD Facilitator, faculty member for the UBW Summer Institutes (NY), Associate Choreographer for INTELLIGENCE Opera (with Jawole Zollar), Co-Choreographer for Scat! The Complex Lives of Al and Dot鈥�Dot and Al Zollar (with Jawole Zollar), and Professor of Dance at 缅北禁地 University (MD).