Who's Who: Test Run
| Direction & Design | Charlotte Vincent |
| Lighting Design | James Harrison |
| Devised & Performed by | Janusz Orlik Patrycja Kujawska (violin) Matt Howden (violin) |
Janusz Orlik - Performer (Poland)
Born in Konin, Poland, Janusz trained at the ballet school in Warsaw and in contemporary at Bruckner Konservatorium in Linz (Austria). He was a founding member of x.IDA Dance Company (Austria) dancing and touring internationally with productions by choreographers such as Olga Cobos (E), Peter Mika (AL), Catherine Guerin (D/USA), Rebecca Murgi (I), and Nicole Caccivio (D). He met Charlotte Vincent in 2001 in Linz whilst she was making work with x.IDA. Janusz has since made and toured On the House (2003), Let The Mountains Lead You To Love (2003), Punch Drunk (2004), Broken Chords (2005), and Test Run (2006). Janusz also choreographs his own work in Poland, making Exerese Monobloc with Pia Libicka in 2005 and And Thy Neighbour As Thyself in 2006. Janusz lives in Poznan, Poland.
Patrycja Kujawska - Violinist (Poland)
Patrycja studied at the Academy of Music in Gdansk, graduating in violin. She was a guest performer at the City Theatre in Gdynia and sang in the Non-Cabaret of Maciej Nowak in the Baltic Sea Cultural Centre. She has performed with Dada von Bzdulow Theatre since 1994 and composed the music to Dada's performance The Doom of the People or My Liver Has No Sense. In 2000 she was awarded a Gdansk Theatre Scholarship from the City of Gdansk to create a recital of The Ninth Lover of Katarzyna Foster. She performed in Papugaj, choreographed by Tatiana Baganowa and in Avi Kaiser’s Endstation – ZASPA. With Aurora Lubos she co-founded KLM group and created Te Takie Te. Patrycja has created Drop Dead Gorgeous with VDT (2001), Let The Mountains Lead You To Love (2003), Punch Drunk (2004), Broken Chords (2005), Fairy Tale (2006) and Test Run (2006). Patrycja lives in Sheffield.
Matt Howden – Violinist (UK)
Matt is a critically acclaimed multi-instrumentalist, vocalist and producer who records primarily under the name Sieben. Based in Sheffield, Matt has released six Sieben albums to date; Desire Rites, Forbid the Sun's Escape. The Line and the Hook, Our Solitary Confinement, Sex and Wildflowers and Ogham Inside the Night. He also composes and records neo-classical work, and releases include Hellfires, Intimate and Obstinate, Spurge the Sun and Voyager. Using a loop pedal, a violin, and his voice, Matt layers melodies and harmonies, singing and playing over the top. Matt tours nationally and internationally and also records and plays live with HaWthorn, Raindogs and previously with Sol Invictus. Test Run is Matt’s first collaboration with Vincent Dance Theatre.
James Harrison - Lighting Design (UK)
James began his training in lighting and sound at Sheffield University (1994), working primarily with live bands, and went on to graduate in Theatre Design at Bretton Hall College (1999). He has designed lighting for several Sheffield-based companies, including Third Angel (Where from Here, Believe the Worst, Leave No Trace, Presumption) Dead Earnest (Stalingrad, set & lighting), Point Blank (Roses & Morphine, set and lighting) and Vincent Dance Theatre’s Drop Dead Gorgeous (2001), Let the Mountains Lead You to Love (2003), On the House (2003), Punch Drunk (2004/5), Broken Chords (2005), Fairy Tale (2006) and Test Run (2006). As a Production/Technical Manager, James has toured nationally and internationally with theatre and dance companies Third Angel, Blast Theory, Scarlet Theatre, Vincent Dance Theatre, Wendy Houstoun and Forced Entertainment. His work also includes teaching and implementing sound, set and lighting designs to community and school groups in and around Yorkshire, as well as production management within this context and regular work with Danceworks, supporting international dance companies visiting Sheffield Theatres. James lives in Sheffield
Charlotte Vincent – Artistic Director (UK)
Charlotte Vincent formed Vincent Dance Theatre in 1994 and has directed all the company’s work to date. Productions include Test Run (created for Dance Umbrella 2006), Shifting Intimacies (interactive installation 2006), Fairytale (2006), Broken Chords (2005), Punch Drunk (2004), Let The Mountains Lead You To Love (2003), On The House (2000/03), Drop Dead Gorgeous (2001), Glasshouse (16mm film) and Body:Ink (art publication). She performed with VDT until 2002, and returned in 2006 to replace TC Howard in Broken Chords. She has designed the company’s work since 2005.
Charlotte’s work with VDT has been commissioned by ICA/Capture 4, Year of Photography and the Electronic Image, The Place, Arnolfini, Tramway, Green Room, Sheffield Theatres, Hall for Cornwall, Site Gallery, Yorkshire Dance, Dance Exchange, Swindon Dance and Danceworks UK. Charlotte has also choreographed productions for x-IDA Dance Company (Austria), Senza Tempo (Spain), Teeside Dance Initiative (UK), Taipei Crossover Dance (Taiwan), Welsh Independent Dance (UK), Anjali Dance Company with TC Howard (UK) and Cloudgate 2 (Taiwan). In 2007 Charlotte is making new work with Gravity and Levity Aerial Dance Company. In 2007/8 she is collaborating with Liz Ranken and Gregory Thompson, commissioned by the RSC/Tron Theatre to create a work centered around Shakespeare’s Rape of Lucrece.
Charlotte teaches extensively at higher education level in the UK and abroad at universities, colleges and dance agencies. She has taught extensively in the community setting leading projects with young offenders, long-term unemployed, women, people with disabilities, people with learning difficulties and has choreographed projects with young people across the UK. She contributes to the documentation of female arts practice through lecturing and publications and is engaging in mentoring emerging artists on a regular basis.