Choreography & Artistic Research
About
Carol Brown
Carol Brown is an interdisciplinary choreographer working with practices of dance, music, image, place and architecture. A Pākeha (European New Zealander) of Irish descent, she was born in Ōtepoti/Dunedin, Te Wai Pounamu, Aotearoa NZ and is based in Naarm, Melbourne, Australia, on the lands of the Kulin Nations.
Selected Works
Saltlines for sealion women
Living in turbulent times we need to return to the sea to find our balance.
Routes/Worlds
A site-responsive project led by choreographer Carol Brown and composer Simon Eastwood, in the former Company of Strangers shop on George Street, Dunedin.
Plant Table
Choreography for people, plants and places. Created by Gregory Lorenzutti & Carol Brown.
Archive
Starting in the early 1990s, Carol Brown Dances & Collaborations have produced an extensive back-catalogue of works. For a contemporary selection, please see Projects.
2010s
2000s
1990s
Writings / Publications
A select chronology of scholarly and artistic writing from Carol Brown, including co-authored works, panels, and responses from other writers.
Brown, Carol, (2025) ‘Braiding, a fluid dramaturgy’ in Vicky Hunter & Fiona Wright (eds) Routledge Companion to Site-Specific Performance. London and New York: Routledge, 218-229.
Brown, C., and Reihana-Morunga, T. (2020) ‘Hau: Living Archive of Breath’. Performance Research, vol.25,no.2, 69-78.