Carol Brown Dances: Current Projects

Current and Forthcoming Projects

The Nineteenth Step
Adroitness
The New Breeds
Dancing Aloud

The 19th Step

View early research for an exciting new collaborative work 'The 19th Step' from composer Dorothy Ker and choreographer Carol Brown with artist Kate Allen and featuring celebrated mathematician Marcus du Sautoy. Performers include du Sautoy with an ensemble of three dancers and three musicians (Dylan Elmore, Marina Collard and Rosemary Martin with Sarah Bennington - flute, Richard Steggall - horn and Scott Wilson - percussion).

On THE NINETEENTH STEP of a basement staircase in a building about to be demolished in downtown Buenos Aires, writer Jorge Luis Borges imagines an aleph, a point in space that contains all other points (past, present and future). From this step we imagine a vast, exhilarating library where all possible languages are sited. Mathematician Marcus du Sautoy performs alongside an ensemble of outstanding dancers and musicians to create a complex patterning of spaces, layering understandings of time, numbers and relationships within a Borges’ inspired quest for infinity.

The 19th Step

7.30pm 9th April, Michaelis Dance Studio, Roehampton University
Roehampton Lane, London SW14 5PU
Tickets £5.00 / £3.00 advance bookings 020 8392 5016
Map and directions to Roehampton:
http://www.roehampton.ac.uk/about/location/campuses/froebel.asp http://www.roehampton.ac.uk/about/location/directions/index.asp

7.30pm 12th April, Studio Theatre, Laban Creekside, Deptford, London SE8 3DZ Tickets £5.00 / £3.00 advance bookings 020 8469 9500 or book online at www.laban.org

Visit the website for the project www.the19thstep.co.uk

Adroitness

A contemporary dance performance and symposium weekend @ artsdepot to celebrate International Women’s Day London curated by Ijad Dance Company
Saturday 8th March 8pm A live performance featuring the work of Carol Brown, H2Dance, Yael Flexer/Bedlam, Wendy Houstoun, Rosie Kay, and Joumana Mourad/IJAD Dance Company

Sunday 9th March Symposium 1000-1800
Adroitness sets out to consider different contemporary performance practices asking what kind of forms contemporary performance take and what are the lineages of such work? Leading practitioners, curators and programmers will contribute including Carol Brown, Kate Castle, Julia Carruthers, Nicky Malloy, Carline Miller, Joe Bates and more.
Tickets for the symposium £30
Tickets for the entire weekend £35
Box Office: 020 8369 5454
5 Nether Street, Tally Ho Corner, North Finchley, London N12 8GA
www.artsdepot.co.uk
www.ijad.freeserve.co.uk

The Nineteenth Step
Photo by Mattias Ek

The New Breeds

A Carol Brown commission for VERVE 08, the graduate performance company of the Northern School of Contemporary Dance, premieres at the Riley Theatre Northern School of Contemporary Dance, Leeds 22 February 08. For details and other touring dates in UK, Ireland, Finland, Netherlands Feb-Jul 08 visit www.nscd.ac.uk

Dancing Aloud

10 years 41 collaborators 21 dances 22 countries. What remains of all those dances?

Following a decade of performances around the world Carol Brown wrote to the dancers, architects, designers, composers, filmmakers and visual artists she has collaborated with and invited them to send a memory of their experience. She moves through their memories, re-drawing a map of choreographies from Philadelphia to Finland, and from Cork to Calcutta, performing the archive and making audible its hidden stories.

Institute of Contemporary Interdisciplinary Arts (ICIA)
University of Bath, UK
Sat 16 Feb , 7.30pm
ICIA Arts Theatre
www.bath.ac.uk/icia/events
Tickets £9
Concs £7
University staff £7
BUSU £5

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Workshop in dance and architecture

Read about Projects for 2005-06