2007

Dancing Aloud
TEMPO Dance Festival,
Auckland, New Zealand
2 October 2007

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.

Date: Tue 2 Oct / TAPAC / 8pm
Tickets: $25 Adult / $22 DANZ member & Groups 8+ / $18 Concession
Ticketing: Ticketek / Ph: 0800 842 538 / www.ticketek.co.nz
Further Information:  www.tempo.co.nz

Workshop on Dance and Architecture
Critical Path, Sydney, Australia
22-26 October  2007

Carol Brown will work with collaborator architect Mette Ramsgard and 10 NSW choreographers on a project involving interactive media to create a dance-architecture.

Fusing choreographic scores derived from sea ecologies with digital processes, a playful environment for Improvisation will be created. The workshop is hosted by Critical Path in partnership with Strut and British Council

www.criticalpath.org.au/

dancing in wired nature
PICA Performance Space, Perth, Australia
3 November 2007

Ten members of STRUT will perform a live installation, the culmination of a 6 day workshop based on Carol Brown and Mette Ramsgard Thomsen’s collaborative work, SeaUnSea

Date: Sat 3 Nov / 7pm
Tickets: FREE
/ PICA / 08 9228 6300
www.pica.org.au

GLOW SCREENING
Film Premiere of Woking's processional production

A specially-commissioned film of GLOW, the multi-media show staged at TheLightbox fusing light, music, movement and vocals, will be screened in the new gallery. Created and performed for the finale of Woking International Dance Festival earlier in the year, this show brought together a dynamic group of over 30 dancers and musicians - both professional and from the local community - to deliver a radiant collaborative spectacle. Performers include: dancers from Carol Brown Dances and StopGAP; Woking College Singers; and musicians from Planet People. Featuring original costumes by fashion designer, Davina Hawthorne, designed and created in collaboration with members of the local community.

Filmed by Roswitha Chesher / Choreographed by Carol Brown / Music by Russell Scoones and Planet People / Commissioned by Woking Dance Festival and The Lightbox
THE LIGHTBOX
The Ambassador Room
Sat 6 October 3:00pm / FREE
www.wokingdancefestival.co.uk/glow.htm

Dancescape Professional Development Programme for dance artists

Dancescape Professional Development Programme for dance artists
One day workshop with Carol Brown
Sunday 15 April 2007, 11am to 4.30pm
At Spencer Yard, Leamington Spa, CV31 3SY
Cost: £30 +VAT (£35.25)

Carol Brown will lead a one day workshop for professional dance artists. During a practical session and discussion, participants will have an insight into Carol’s artistic practice and processes and collectively explore the highs and lows of working collaboratively.

Carol Brown is a choreographer, performer, writer and teacher. Her company, Carol Brown Dances is renowned for its cross-art form works for theatre, installation and screen. Carol has specialised in choreographic installations and performances through collaborations with architects, composers, visual artists and technologists.

For more information about the workshop and to book your place contact
Sarah Jassal, Sub Regional Dance Development Officer, on 0121 704 6747 or
email sjassal@solihull.gov.uk.

SeaUnSea Performance and Installation

Photo by Anders Jensen

ENTER_UNKNOWN TERRITORIES International Festival & Conference for New Technology Art 25-29 April 2007 Cambridge (UK)
The festival’s three main activities - public art events, workshops and conference - will address, explore, and question the possibilities of making and experiencing new technology arts.
For more information http://www.enternet.org.uk

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