Creative, Aesthetics, Philosophy (CAP) | Composition workshop Event as iCalendar

(Creative Events, Dance Studies, Music)

17 August 2018

4 - 5pm

Venue: Music Theatre, School of Music

Location: 6 Symonds St, Auckland Central

Host: School of Music

Cost: Free admission

Contact email: creative@auckland.ac.nz

Carol Brown. Image credit: Samuel Richards

Biography

Associate Professor Carol Brown is an internationally established creative research scholar and professional choreographer. Originally trained in Bodenwieser methods with Shona Dunlop-MacTavish in Dunedin, she completed a history honours degree at the University of Otago before specialising in Dance Studies, completing an MA and one of the first practice-led doctorates in the UK at the University of Surrey. Carol was appointed Choreographer in Residence at the Place Theatre London after presenting her PhD solo The Mechanics of Fluids. There she founded Carol Brown Dances.

Nourished by creative collaborations that explore diverse spaces, places and body memories, her choreographies take multiple forms, as installations, inter-media events, and site specific performances, These have been presented internationally including at Roma Europa, Dance Umbrella and the Brighton Festival. 

Carol has been commissioned to create work on Scottish Dance Theatre, Verve, Subcircle, Group Motion, Touch Compass and DanceXchange. She has created work for public spaces including for Perth CBD (Dancing City with STRUT), Prague Old City (FLOOD  Prague Quadrenniale) Parc Guell, Barcelona (Dies de Dansa) and the Bloomberg Building (London City).

Carol is the recipient of a Jerwood Award for Choreography, the Ludwig Forum International Prize for Innovation and a Dream Time Award from NESTA. She held a three year post-doctoral fellowship through the AHRC in the UK to explore dance and architecture. 

Recent research collaborations include PAH with Gillian Whitehead and Star Gossage (Auckland Arts Festival 2015), Releasing the Archive with Thomas Kampe and the New Zealand Dance Company and Singularity in collaboration with Uwe Rieger and the Open Media Lab. Carol writes regularly for peer-reviewed journals on performance, technology and space and has contributed chapters to key texts on dance, technology, feminism, collaboration, site dance and choreography. She is currently working on a book on the politics and poetics of choreographic research.

Programme:

Associate Professor Carol Brown will discuss the choreomusical potential in bringing music and dance into working relations and co-presence through collaborative production. Drawing on choreographic research into interactive dance-architectures (Singularity with composers Jerome Soudan and Russell Scoones); and live performances with percussion, sound art ensemble From Scratch (Drumwheel @Te Uru Auckland Arts Festival 2018), she speaks to the many timed dynamic interactions involved in live music/dance relations. How do composers and choreographers, musicians and dancers find a joint space of creativity and, what are some of the critical challenges in hearing the dance and kinesthetically moving the music?