Carol Brown (dancer)
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| Born | 1964 Dunedin |
| Citizenship | New Zealand |
| Awards | Jerwood Award for Choreography, Caroline Plummer Community Dance Fellowship 2025, NESTA Dreamtime Award, Ludwig Forum International Prize for Innovation |
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| Alma mater | University of Surrey |
Carol Brown (born 1964)[1] is a New Zealand choreographer, dancer and academic. She is full professor and Head of Dance at the University of Melbourne. Brown was the first Choreographer in Residence at The Place in London. She has been awarded Jerwood Award for Choreography, the NESTA Dreamtime Award and the Ludwig Forum International Prize for Innovation. In 2025 she was appointed the Caroline Plummer Community Dance Fellow at the University of Otago.
Life
Brown was born and raised in South Dunedin.[2] She initially studied dance in Dunedin with Bodenwieser dancer Shona Dunlop MacTavish.[3]
Brow was awarded her PhD in practice-based dance at the University of Surrey and was then Choreographer in Residence at The Place. She completed her postdoctoral research at the University of Roehampton’s Centre for Dance Research in London, and is now a Professor and Head of Dance at the University of Melbourne.[3][4][5]
Her performance work includes Lungsong[4] and The Lift [6][5] and a special feature of her work is the exploration of the relationship between dance and architecture as shown in her collaboration with architect Mette Ramsgard Thomsen in The Changing Room. [7]
In Brown was appointed as the 2025 Caroline Plummer Community Dance Fellow at the University of Otago in Dunedin, with a project called Saltlines for Sealion Women.[2] Her public performance as part of that fellowship involved a performance at St Clair beach to music by Russell Scoones, as part of the Wild Dunedin Ōtepoti New Zealand Festival of Nature.[8]
Publications
Carol Brown is co-editor of the book Undisciplining Dance,[9] and author of chapters in Dance Fields,[10] The Routledge Companion to Dance Studies,[11] Artistic Approaches to Cultural Mapping,[12] Poetic Biopolitics,[13] Collaboration in Performance Practice,[14] Moving Sites,[15] and over seventeen articles in all the major dance journals including Performance Research, Choreographic Practices, and Contemporary Theatre Review.[16]
Awards
Brown has been awarded the Jerwood Award for Choreography, National Endowment for Science, Technology & the Arts (NESTA) Dream Time Award in the UK, and the Ludwig Forum International Art Prize for Innovation in Germany.[17][18]
References
- ↑ "Carol Brown". mix-n-match.toolforge.org. Retrieved 2025-08-30.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "One with the tide, going with the flow". Otago Daily Times Online News. 2025-03-13. Retrieved 2025-09-14.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Meet Carol Brown, head of VCA Dance. - Dance Australia". Dance Australia. 22 September 2020. Retrieved 2025-08-30.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Brown, Carol. "Carol Brown - Victorian College of the Arts - University of Melbourne". angklungeditions.academia.edu. Retrieved 2025-08-29.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 "Next stage for dance project". Otago Daily Times Online News. 2025-07-17. Retrieved 2025-08-30.
- ↑ Jane Thorburn (2014-02-10). THE LIFT Dance for Camera. Retrieved 2025-08-29 – via YouTube.
- ↑ "The Changing Room | Det Kongelige Akademi". royaldanishacademy.com. Retrieved 2025-08-30.
- ↑ Otago, University of (2025-06-18). "Sublime performance from Caroline Plummer Fellow in Community Dance". www.otago.ac.nz. Retrieved 2025-09-14.
- ↑ Brown, Carol (2021). Undiscipining Dance. Cambridge Scholars Publishing (published 21 June 2021). ISBN 978-1527570955.
- ↑ David, A. Rosalie; Huxley, Michael; Whatley, Sarah, eds. (2020). Dance fields: staking a claim for dance studies in the twenty-first century. Binsted, Hampshire: Dance Books. ISBN 978-1-85273-181-6.
- ↑ Thomas, Helen; Prickett, Stacey (2020). The Routledge companion to dance studies. Routledge companions. Abingdon [G.B.]: Routledge. ISBN 978-1-138-23458-1.
- ↑ Duxbury, Nancy; Garrett-Petts, William Francis; Longley, Alys (2019). Artistic approaches to cultural mapping: activating imaginaries and means of knowing. Routledge research in culture, space and identity. Abingdon New York: Routledge. ISBN 978-1-138-08823-8.
- ↑ Rawes, Peg; Loo, Stephen; Mathews, Timothy (2016). Poetic biopolitics: practices of relation in architecture and the arts. International library of visual culture. London: I.B. Tauris. ISBN 978-1-78076-912-7.
- ↑ Colin, Noyale; Sachsenmaier, Stefanie (2016). Collaboration in performance practice: premises, workings and failures. Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 978-1-137-46245-9.
- ↑ Hunter, Victoria, ed. (2015). Moving sites: investigating site-specific dance performance. London ; New York: Routledge. ISBN 978-0-415-71017-6.
- ↑ "Carol BROWN | Associate Professor | BA(Hons) History, MA Dance Studies, PhD Dance Studies | University of Auckland, Auckland | Dance Studies Programme". ResearchGate. Archived from the original on 2022-09-10. Retrieved 2025-08-30.
- ↑ "Pushing the boundaries - Arts, Dance, News". NZEDGE. 2004-06-30. Retrieved 2025-09-14.
- ↑ "Contributor: Carol Brown » Ausdance | Dance Advocacy". Ausdance. Retrieved 2025-09-14.
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