Carol Brown Dances: Choreographic History

Choreographic History

A LIQUID ARCHITECTURAL STATE
70 min installation performance for 5 performers

Machine for Living Photo by Mattias Ek

Sculpting with space, light, movement and metal, Carol Brown and Esther Rolinson have realised a multi-dimensional environment in which the bodies of the performers and the fabric of the space become an immersive sensory experience.

A dark metallic forest cut with light and animation becomes a visceral machine offering fleeting insights into privately inhabited spaces. The spectator makes a physical journey, composing their own stories from glimpsed moments and fragmented human exchanges. Solid barriers dissolve; flickering images crystallise into human forms; forms coalesce into individual portraits; transient encounters accumulate, allowing relationships to build; movement pathways take on the concentrated patterns of the city; a resonant urban mediascape takes shape.

Original soundscore by Pete M. Wyer. Lighting design by Michael Mannion.

Performers are Carol Brown, Charlotte Derbyshire, James Flynn, Grant Maclay and Mathew Smith.

Machine for Living is designed for a range of performance spaces. It was funded by Arts Council of England and London Arts and is now available for booking throughout 2002.

Performances
Hamburg and Aachen, Germany 12-19 March 2003

Dance Umbrella 8-10 November 2001
World Premiere: 4 October 2000 Brighton Corn Exchange

Machine for Living
Photo by Mattias Ek

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