SIZE OF COMPANY
2–12, depending on production

SCALE OF VENUE
Small to medium

PERMANENT STAFF
Artistic Director
Carol Brown
Manager
Gwen Van Spijk

ARTISTIC POLICY
Carol Brown Dances creates solo, duo, and group movement works for theatre, live art, site-specific, and virtual spaces. The language and aesthetic of the company evolves through dialogue and collaboration with the fields of visual design, architecture, film, music, digital media, and literature. Performances explore the presence of the human body through narratives and images, and offer a dynamic interrogation of contemporary themes and inventions.

REVIEW EXTRACTS
Strikingly beautiful.
Ballet Co. Magazine
Her virtuosity is one that revels in the detail of execution...Subtle brilliance.
Dance Now
The neatest possible justification of live art; life being simply turned into art.
The Guardian

CURRENT PRODUCTIONS
SeaUnSea inspired by the ecology of the Sargasso Sea and using innovative digital technology, the work evolves as an interactive performance for three dancers whose movements respond to the swirling patterns of a synthetic seascape.
40 minute performance followed by 60 minute installation, 6 on the road
Dancing Aloud is a performing lecture by Carol Brown and a mapping – of processes, memories and places – a decade of dance works return us to.
60 minute solo, 2 on the road

FUTURE PRODUCTIONS
Tongues of Stone: a collaboration with Architect/Designer Dorita Hannah and based on the metamorphoses of flesh, stone, dust, phantom. Drawing on Australian geology and mythology but connecting this to a transglobal sensibility.
12 on the road
Rhythms of a Lost Malady: a collaboration with writer Deb Levy, that draws on the history of hysterical paralysis to explore the performance of symptoms and exposes the haunting of this nineteenth century lost malady in the present.
6 on the road

WRAP-AROUND
Carol Brown Dances can offer choreographic workshops for professional practitioners and dance students and/or lecture-demonstrations for professional practitioners and students in the fields of dance, architecture and computer science, illuminating the processes and techniques used in creating her works.

RECENT INTERNATIONAL WORK
2007 New Zealand, Australia, Dancing Aloud, SeaUnSea
2006 New Zealand, Monaco, Aarero Stone, SeaUnSea
2005 India (commission/performance)

TOURING AVAILABILITY

SeaUnSea and Dancing Aloud available from January 2009
Tongues of Stone available from autumn 2009
Rhythms of a Lost Malady available from spring 2010