In Loco Parentis – Online
2020
‘I hadn’t expected to be as emotional as I was. Absolutely enthralling dance and theatre. Profoundly moving.’ Online audience member
IN LOCO PARENTIS
Running Time: 90 minutes (no interval)
Age Guidance: 14+
- Directed and Designed by Charlotte Vincent
- Composed by Jules Maxwell
- Lighting Design Nigel Edwards
- Filmed and Edited by Bosie Vincent
- Adult performers Robert Clark, Aurora Lubos and Janusz Orlik alongside two child performers
In Loco Parentis sheds light on the extraordinary resilience of care-experienced young people, demanding that their stories be seen and heard. Three adult and two extraordinary young performers combine movement, visual imagery and spoken word to explore the cycles of rupture and repair that drive children into care.
This work contains content and explores themes that some people may find upsetting. Support Helplines for In Loco Parentis here.
Online Screenings
In 2020/21 the live stage capture of In Loco Parentis was screened online at the following venues: Pavilion Dance South West, MÓTUS, Arts Depot, Stamford Arts Centre, Falmouth University, South East Dance, Bath Spa University, Plymouth University.
The screenings were accompanied by a series of online seminar and Q&A events led by Charlotte Vincent.
If you are a venue, school or HE institution and would like to book an online screening of In Loco Parentis accompanied by learning events, please contact admin@vincentdt.com.
Resources
See Charlotte discuss the work following the UK Premiere of In Loco Parentis on 3 March 2020, with Bobbie Farsides (Professor of Clinical & Biomedical Ethics, Brighton & Sussex Medical School) and Louise Michelle Bomber (Director of TouchBase, an organisation that supports children and young people recovering from and living with past trauma) here:
See Charlotte explain the work here:
See VDT Performers talking about making the work here:
In Loco Parentis Photo Gallery
Read Charlotte’s Director’s Notes
Hear Vincent talk about the work on BBC Radio Lincolnshire (2/10/2020, at 01:46)
“What gives Vincent’s work its power is that it is born not of hot-housed theory but of lived experience. It comes from the heart and that’s not always a pretty place.” The Observer
COMMISSIONERS
In Loco Parentis was co-commissioned by Worthing Theatres and PDSW. The production was captured at Connaught Theatre, Worthing on 3 March 2020 a week before VDT’s UK tour was cancelled due to Covid-19.
VDT is a National Portfolio Organisation, funded by Arts Council England and Associate Company at Brighton Dome and Festival.
Special thanks to Tour Booker Sarah Trist Dance Management Agency.