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Carol Brown

0000-0002-2554-1618

Professor (Dance and dance studies)

Melbourne, Australia

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. She is currently serving as a Professor of Choreography and Head of Dance at the Victorian College of Arts, University of Melbourne. Her work explores the cracks between art forms and the possibilities for dance as an interdiscipline within the geopolitical present. Working in sustained collaborations, she evolves dialogues, teaches makes dances through experimenting in diverse situations and sites and writes. Her work seeks to embody vital questions of space, belonging, agency and environmental care.

Publications

  • NGV Extra Festival
  • DANCE AND THE CORPOREAL UNCANNY: PHILOSOPHY IN MOTION
  • LungSong Screen Dance
  • Now Pieces
  • CROSSINGS
  • Strata + Sprawl
  • LungSong
  • Living Archive of Breath
  • The Air Between Us
  • Lip(s)
  • TENSEGRITY
  • Dancing Together Apart
  • Choreography as Research: Physical Thinking and Embodied Minds in a Context of Global Change.
  • Intra-and Intergenerational Dance Performing Citizenship
  • Resisting Cruel Histories: Dance on a Democratic Ground Plane
  • Body Time for Reckoning with Space and Place
  • Uncanny Bodies
  • Unmapping: Creative labor towards undoing the hidden score of disciplinary practices in Contemporary Dance in Australia and Aotearoa
  • (In)corporeal encounters: Proposing Choreographies for the Future
  • Introduction: (Un)knowing dancing
  • WAHAWAEWAO [We Are Here And We Are EveryWhere At Once] VR
  • Virtual Crossings Melbourne - Geneva -Auckland
  • 'Afterlives of Dances of Exile' in Feminism & Art: Connected by Dance
  • Towards a Deterritorialised Field of Dance
  • Shouting Across the Centuries: Affective archives and the politics of transmission
  • Performing Empathy Machines, In, Changing Perspectives on Performance: Interrogating Digital Dimensions and New Modes of Engagement
  • Te Arai: Re-addressing the space of grief, bereavement and lamentation
  • Contact Zones & Cross-Rhythms: Decentring Dance Training
  • Insurgent Modes for Urban Reconnection: Scaling, augmenting & counter-mapping public space
  • Breaths and beats: Vibrating at the borders of memory
  • Undisciplining Dance in Nine Movements and Eight Stumbles
  • Asian Dramaturg Network presents Expansions, Intersections and Hybridities in Dramaturgy for the Dramaturg's Network 20th Anniversary and Kenneth Tynan Award Celebrating Dramaturgy
  • The Air Between Us
  • Empowering Waves of History
  • Breaths & Beats
  • Field Guide for Choreography as Research
  • Leap into the Modern
  • Political Breathing: A practical philosophy for living relations. Opening Keynote.
  • Moving together: Inter-generational dance, somatic education and urban citizenship
  • Public Dialog and Creative Facilitation for Humane Technology
  • Collective Gestures/ Collapsing Distances
  • Spacing Events: charting choreo-spatial dramaturgies
  • Mental Dance
  • Queers of Java
  • The Strangeness of Dancing: From The Changing Room and Singularity
  • Hau: Living Archive of Breath
  • Possibilising Performance through Interactive Telematic Technology
  • How to do a plie and not get bored
  • Dancing the Mimetic Faculty: A Peculiar Phenomenology
  • Empowering young male dancers: Perspectives of adult-collaborators from the outside-in
  • Fluid city: Transforming Melbourne's urban waterfront
  • Tuna Mau
  • SOME OTHER PLACES
  • Design, digital gestures and the in[ter]ference of meaning: Reframing technology’s role within design and place through performative gesture
  • Score for collaborative production process of REVOLVE
  • Rest Sleep Wake: Soma–science scores for performing sleep
  • Sur sur / South south
  • Singularity
  • Singularity :: Drawing spaces and breathing spaces
  • SLIP I'm not falling I'm just hanging on for as long you'll hold me Dance Theatre Work for Touch Compass
  • Seed - a dance theatre duet
  • The Demon Machine
  • Tongues of Stone: a Site Sensitive Performance
  • Urban Devas
  • STANDING WAVES
  • We Are Here And We Are Every Where At Once (WAHAWAEWAO)
  • So, remember the liquid ground
  • Shouting across the century: Affective archives and the politics of transmission
  • The Sustainability of Future Bodies Roundtable 13th June 2013, 1pm – 3pm
  • Workshop: Releasing the body as archive: Dance, somatics and the Bodenwieser Method
  • Undisciplining Dance
  • Tongues of Stone: making Space Speak...Again and Again
  • 'REVOLVE or the impossible task of performing sleep'
  • Tongues of Stone: making space speak ... again and again
  • Releasing the Archive: Choreographing with the Past
  • An ancient-contemporary mystical journey
  • Practice as Research Roundtable: Sensual Address in Divergent Economies
  • Keynote Address: Falling together: interdisciplinary arts research opportunities
  • From cartography to choreography
  • Releasing the Archive: An experimental clinic for choreographic acts of repair
  • History as 'Making the Future Now' through Pacific Video and Performance Art: Inter-disciplinary collaborative performative installation
  • Releasing the body as archive: Dance, somatics and the Bodenwieser Method: Panel: Exploring ethics and embodiment 1
  • Performed research and the university: pedagogy, supervision and examination
  • Remembering and Forgetting: Dance as an inter-generational process of recovery and transformation
  • Mapping turbulent gestures and liquid ground
  • Mythographies: Reclaiming the body through ephemeral architectures of performance
  • Making space, speaking spaces
  • Dance Studies and its Diversified Fields of Practice: We are here and we are everywhere at once
  • Excavating the space between: The collaboration between dramaturge and artistic director
  • Circadian Circles
  • BLACK WI(N)DOW : Designing/Dancing Entangled Thresholds Of Encounter
  • Falling Together
  • Entangled histories, part 1: Releasing the archive
  • Dancing in the gallery: Opening children’s eyes and mobilizing their responses to art, reflections on a DART project
  • Integrative Performance: Practice and Theory for the Interdisciplinary Performer
  • Streams of writing From a fluid city
  • The Pā Collective: Developing dramaturgical intersections, collaboration, and performing layers of place post-empire
  • City of lovers
  • Godwits, Kuaka and the returns of Ausdruckstanz in Aotearoa
  • Te kore and the encounter of performance
  • The aesthetics of smash and grab
  • Book Reviews
  • Conceiving embodiment: The dance-architecture of spawn
  • Making Space for ‘Through-Others
  • The 19th Step
  • The New Breeds: for Verve Dance Company Northern School of Contemporary Dance
  • Teaching a Butterly to Swim
  • [Review of] Fluid city: transforming Melbourne's urban waterfront by K Dovey, with L Sandercock, Q Stevens, I Woodcock, S Wood; University of New South Wales Press, Sydney (distributed in the United Kingdom by Routledge), 2004
  • Arteries and Avatars
  • Surface tension : problematics of site
  • Scopic Bodies Panel: Tempo Dance festival
  • Performing Sleep/Wake Cycles: An Arts-Science Dialogue through Embodied Technologies
  • Migration et mémoire : les héritages incarnés de Gertrud Bodenwieser
  • Dancing-Drawing Fields of Presence in SeaUnSea
  • Learning to Dance with Angelfish: Choreographic Encounters Between Virtuality and Reality

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