Carol Brown , choreographer, performer, and writer creates movement-based works for theatre and live art spaces. Her work seeks to unfurl a movement poetics within real and mediated spaces.
“ Brown is an assertive… glamorous performer, confidently angling her strong body through different planes and levels as she works within the limits of her stage.” Judith Mackrell on Nerve The Guardian
“ subtle brilliance” Edward Bryden on Shelf Life , Dance Now
“ gripping dance…an unstoppable mesmerising flow” Miriam Seidel on Sleeping in Public, The Philadelphia Enquirer
Carol formed her company, Carol Brown Dances, in 1996 with the composer Russell Scoones. The company is based in London and tours nationally and internationally. The past few years have seen the company gathering increasing acclaim for its cross art form collaborations with visual artists, photographers, film makers, architects, digital artists and sound designers.
“ The neatest possible justification for live art: life, simply being turned into art” Judith Mackrell on Shelf Life , The Guardian.
Since her time as Associate Artist and Choreographer in Residence at The Place Theatre, London, Carol has received numerous awards including a Jerwood Award for Choreography (1999), an AHRB Research Fellowship in the Creative and Performing Arts (2001) and a NESTA Dream Time Award (2004). Most recently she was awarded the Ludwig Forum Prize for Innovation in Germany.
Carol Brown Dances recent projects include: Machine for Living [presented at Ludwig Forum Aachen and Tanzhaus Dusseldorf in March 2003 and Dance Umbrella, London in November 2001]; Nerve [Dance Umbrella London in October 2002, British Dance Edition, Birmingham, Sobre Soltos Festival, Bucaramanga, Columbia in 2002, and Full Moon Festival, Finland in 2003]; the screen installation Electric Fur , an Arts Council England Capture 2 commission, created in collaboration with Video Artist Abigail Norris and Photographer Mattias Ek [Monaco Dance Forum 2002, The Place 2002 and Tanz Mediale, Cologne 2003]; the solo, Sleeping in Public (British Dance Platform Zagreb 2002 and Philadelphia Fringe Festival 2003) and the Tower of Touch – an interactive exhibition / performance for the Heart of PQ, the 10 th Anniversary of the Prague Quadrennial. Carol was also recently commissioned to choreograph the video for rock Band Blur's single – Crazy Beats . Other recent commissions include Maybe for Bare Bones (2003) and My Sweet Animalia (2003) for Edge.
The work available for presentation in 2004 has been conceived and created through Carol's exploration of dance and new media. These works explore the presence of human and digitized bodies within different ecologies of perception and offer a dynamic interrogation of contemporary themes and inventions.
“ The British contemporary dance scene, led by the excellent Carol Brown, is considered to be one of the most innovative in the world” Vercenji, Zagreb
The changing room dancing with avatars
The Changing Room is a real time interactive performance event for three dancers and a virtual object (avatar). Incorporating live and virtual spaces it takes place within the framework of an interactive architectural environment. Premiered in Aachen, Germany in June 2004, this work will feature in London's international festival, Dance Umbrella in November 2004 and is touring nationally in 2005. the changing room explores the complexity of lives lived in the mediated conditions of the technological and at the edge of the real.
Electric Fur A Screen Dance Installation
Electric Fur is a video installation based on a dual screen environment. Bodies are projected into pools of light creating a mesmeric experience of deep surfaces animated by waves of sensation and memory. Electric Fur is run as a continuous 20'30" loop; viewers can enter the installation at any point in the loop and are invited to spend time within the environment to experience its visual and aural passage through time.
Sleeping In Public Dance Theatre Works
Sleeping in Public is a 20 minute dance theatre performance. A woman details night visions of sensual unrest while a man lies sleeping. Chilling poetics and eruptive choreography with a grinding and mesmerising soundtrack.
Between Two
Between Two is an homage to the early work of Gertrud Bodenwieser within a musical landscape by Gustav Mahler - a matrix of interconnections through which the ideas and dramaturgies of Bodenwieser have informed the present.
Between Two is a duet choreographed by Carol Brown; originally commissioned by Theatre EnCorps and premiered 5 th February 2004.
Carol Brown & Carol Brown Dances are managed by managed by CUE.
For further information please contact Gwen Van Spijk, Producer or Jeanette Hoskins, Project Co-ordinator.
Tel : + 44 [0]20 8858 7465 Email : info@cueperformance.com
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