• London Architectural Biennale. 18 June, 3pm, Siobhan Davies Studios, London.  Dance and Architecture Under the Ribboned Roof Performance Talk, dancing-drawing, towards a dance-architecture by Carol Brown and Mette Ramsgard Thomsen
  
  
• Deep and Beneath Dance Installation. HUB Roundhouse Studios, Chalk Farm Road, London, 21 – 24 September 6.30-8pm.  www.roundhouse.org
  
  
• SeaUnSea, World Premiere, Dance Umbrella, Thu 12 and Fri 13 October, 8pm Sat 14 October, 3pm, 5.30pm & 8pm,Sunday 15 October, 3pm & 5.30pm Siobhan Davies Studios, 85 St George’s Rd, London. Dance Umbrella. Ticket Line: 0870 730 1407.

  About the Work:
  “What we see on the screens is a mass of multiplying shapes and forms, like ink on blotting paper, constantly spreading, disappearing, then growing all over again. When the dancers, Marina Collard, Anna Williams and Matthew Smith enter the performing space, the visual imagery, the colored shapes which begin to take on the appearance of a living organism, tracks their movement; so it appears to follow the performers as they dance, reacting to their changes of direction and tempo, continuously metamorphosing into new shapes and forms…. The effect … is highly emotive and even visceral…. Thomsen's patterns resemble growing organisms, swarming insects, unfurling blossoms, rapidly spreading coral reefs.... Images from nature and the restless, timeless sea….The organic (the live movement) and the toxic (the images generated by Thomsen's computer) share this environment in which nothing is fixed and everything is unstable. The different colors which appear on the screens are enhanced by Michael Mannion's lighting design, while an oceanic sound-score by Alistair MacDonald helps create a sense of shifting emotional states -- love, grieving, anger, yearning and provocative memories.”

  Josephine Leask, Flash Journal, 11-3: Carol Brown Rides the Tech Wave http://www.danceinsider.com/f2006/f1103_2.html

SeaUnSea

2005

Her Topia

A a Dance Architecture Event for The Isadora and Raymond Duncan Centre for Dance Research
Kopanos, Athens, Greece, 7-8 October 2005

Topos

TOPOS

Illuminated memories on a bare stage. For White Christmas extracts from the site specific performance,TOPOS are re-sited in the Robin Howard Theatre, London.

Robin Howard Theatre, The Place, Duke’s Road, London, 8 December, 2005, 8pm.

Crossings

A showing of the first stage of development for Sea, Unsea as part of Digital Cultures.

Saturday 3 December, Sandfield Theatre, Nottingham
Sandfield Road, Nottingham NG7 1QN

For box office information, registration and performance details call:
Digital Cultures Lab: Johannes Birringer Live Art/Digital Research NTU, Victoria Studios, Shakespeare St, Nottingham NG1 4BQ: +44 (0) 115 848 2282
http://www.digitalcultures.org/exhibits.html

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• Josephine Leask (Word document 28KB),
• Anja Wassong (Word document 22KB)
• and Ann Williams (Word document 26KB).

• The Changing Room
  An intimate performance event combining real and virtual spaces created by Carol Brown in collaboration with Mette Ramsgard Thomsen. Three women inhabit a room within which a haunting virtual presence mirrors, distorts and extends their behaviour. Innovative performance technology at the edge of the real.
  Ludvig Forum, Aachen, Germany 4-5 June 2004
  Dance Umbrella, Greenwich Dance Agency 4-6 November 2004
• ROOM
  A remix of The Changing Room, for the Royal Opera House's Clore Studio Upstairs as part of Snagged and Clored season 29-30 July 2004. www.snagproject.com
• The Changing Room
  Work in progress. Michaelis Theatre, University of Surrey Roehampton.
  April 28 2004.
• between two/zwischen zwei
  between two/zwischen zwei is an homage to the early work of Gertrud Bodenwieser within a musical landscape by Gustav Mahler. Choreography by Carol Brown. Performed by Delphine Gaborit and Leon Baugh of Mano Creates. With Lighting and Video Design by James Leadbitter. Performed at Bonnie Bird Theatre, Laban, London 5-6 February 2004
• Electric Fur
  A screen based installation. Exhibited at tanzmedial: Installationen, Fotografien, Filme. SK Stiftung Kultur, Köln, Germany 9 December 2003 - 1 February 2004; British Council Platform 1, Contemporary Art Gallery, Vilnius, Lithuania, May 2004.
• Crevice
  Beyond wreckage, two women find themselves in a surreal landscape of competing desires - a Crevice - where things both float and fall, toward an illusion of progress. Created in Germany and Philadelphia, Crevice is a collaboration between Carol Brown and dance-artists, Niki Cousineau and Gin MacCallum. With music by Jorge Cousineau and Mattias Petzold, and film shot by Alan Mehlbrech. Performed at Dance Boom, Wilma Theatre, Philadelphia 24 January-8 February 2004
  

• Spawn
  spawn is a performance event that comprises solo, duet and trio dances. Incorporating live and virtual spaces it takes place within the framework of an interactive architectural environment.
• Crazy Beat
  The alternative video for Blur's single, Crazy Beat, directed by John Hardwick and choreographed by Carol Brown.
• My Sweet Animalia
  for EDge - The Postgraduate Performance Group of London Contemporary Dance School UK, Denmark and Portugal Tour March-May 2003.
• Maybe
  A duet for a man and a woman swallowed by space, for Bare Bones, Birmingham Dance Exchange, Birmingham.
  National Tour March 2003- January 2004
  Danced by Vicky Manderson and Leon Baugh
  Original Music by Russell Scoones
  

• Machine for Living
  The scheduled performance at Birmingham DanceXchange was postponed due to late completion of the venue's renovation. The premiere was given as part of Dance Umbrella, London on 8 November 2001.
  
  


Machine for Living

• Frozen White
  Carol took part in Choreodrome at The Place, collaborating with Stan Wiljacs to create a music and dance exploration of comatose states, which was performed in a small sharing at The Place on 13 July 2001.
• Sleeping in Public
  A short solo centred on spoken text with a projected data stream of architectural fragments within the city of London. Premiered as part of the Wandsworth Dance Festival at Battersea Arts Centre on 18 November 2001. Now available for touring as part of a solo programme or as a short performance to be included in a mixed evening of work.
• Strata, Sprawl and the video dance, The Idea of Sea commissioned by Group Motion Dance Company, Philadelphia, Premiered Arts Bank, 31 May 2001.
  

• Machine For Living
  Performance Installation. Supported by London Arts Board, South East Arts. Premier Corn Exchange, Brighton.
• Nerve
  Performance Installation. Supported by the Jerwood Choreographic Awards. Work in process showing at The Jerwood Space, London.
• The View From Here. Commissioned by Group Motion Dance Company. Premiered Art Space, Philadelphia, US.
• The Lift
  Dance film commissioned by BBC 2

• Like A House On Fire
  Supported by grants from London Arts Board and through a residency at The Place Theatre. Premiered at Spring Loaded.
• Short Cut
  A site specific performance at Global Image, Newcastle. A Northern Dance International Dance Festival Commission.
• My Sweet Animalia
  Commissioned by National School for Contemporary Dance. Copenhagen, Denmark.

• Shelf Life
  A performance installation by Carol Brown and digital artist, Esther Rolinson. Commissioned by South East Dance Agency. Art Gallery Tour.
• The Glory Box
  Commissioned by Scottish Dance Theatre. Scottish Arts Council funded tour of UK.
• Stripper Stories
  Up Close Season. Commissioned by Chisenhale Dance Space and the Spitz. Spitalfields, London.

• Ocean Skin
  The Place Theatre. Research and Development Funded by University of Surrey.
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  Commissioned by South East Dance Agency. Brighton International Festival.
• The Natural History Programme
  Commissioned by Foreign Bodies Dance Theatre, Northampton.

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Like A House On Fire

• Eve's Tattoo
  Body Matters, University of Auckland; University of Surrey; Spring Loaded, The Place Theatre; DanceXchange, Birmingham
• blood/milk/ink
  Commissioned by Department of Dance Studies, University of Surrey. Woking Spring Into Dance Festival
• The Mechanics of Fluids
  Melkveg Dance Festival, Amsterdam.

• The Mechanics of Fluids
  Lilian Baylis Theatre, London.
• Passion Machine
  Beckenham Studio, London.
• The Anatomy of Reason
  Lillian Baylis Theatre, London. The Place Theatre. Rhythm Method, Purcell Room.
• The Mechanics of Fluids
  Creative New Zealand Funded Tour of New Zealand.

• Bloodsongs
  University of Surrey; Riverhouse Barn, Walton-on-Thames; South Hill Park; Bishop Otter College, Chichester. South East Arts Funded Tour.

• Dancing Through The Wild Zone
  University of Surrey, Guildford.
• She Who Laughs Last
  The Studio, London.

• What the Body Remembers
  QEII Arts Council of New Zealand Funded. Dunedin and Oamaru, New Zealand.
• Heroics
  Commissioned by Suzanne Renner, QE II Arts Council of New Zealand. Dunedin, Auckland and Bulls, New Zealand.

• Making a Woman
  Dunedin Dance Theatre. Dunedin, New Zealand.
• Intimate Equations
  Commissioned by Dance=Arts. Dunedin, New Zealand.
• Manuhiri - The Visitors
  Choreographed and Performed with Bronwyn Judge. South Island Tour (1990), North Island Tour (1991), New Zealand. QE II Arts Council Funded.

Like A House On Fire All photos on this page by Mattias Ek, except for Maybe, which is by Chris Nash.