CHARLOTTE SPENCER
Charlotte is a choreographer, teacher, curator, mentor and performer. She initiates all projects for Charlotte Spencer Projects, often working across art forms and in outdoor environmental contexts.
Charlotte has been making choreographic work since 2007. She was recipient of a Bonnie Bird Choreographic Development Award in 2020. She has received commissions from Sadler’s Wells, Brighton Festival, The Place, Wellcome Collection, Greenwich Dance, Trinity Laban, Salisbury International Art Festival, South East Dance, Jerwood Galleries, Turner Contemporary, Siobhan Davies Dance and Brighton & Hove Libraries.
Charlotte was a Sadler’s Wells Summer University Artist 2015-18 led by Jonathan Burrows and Eva Martinez, and Artist Activator at Greenwich Dance 2014-17. She has worked closely with Siobhan Davies Dance since 2010 on a variety of projects, notably leading Next Choreography 2014-16 - their choreography programme for Young People. Charlotte was a priority artist for Dansce Dialogues 2 2012-14 and Tour d’Europe des Choreographes 2010/2011.
Charlotte graduated from London Contemporary Dance School in 2003 with a 1st Class BA (Hons).
She has two young children and is also in the midst of building a house in Brighton with her husband, Alex.
“Having had the pleasure of working with Charlotte over many years at Dance Umbrella I can testify to the rigour, imagination and dynamic power of her creative practice. She approaches all her work with a serious commitment to exploration and belief in collaborative working.”