Who's who
Katrina Brown
Lecturer
Katrina Brown has been
based in The Netherlands for the last 20 years as an independent dance
artist and choreographer. She works with dance and old-and-new media and in
particular the processes and spaces falling and arising between media.
Her choreographic work was first produced by DansWerkplaats Amsterdam and the [Nes]Theaters in Amsterdam, 1992-2000 and supported by Dutch funding bodies, making group pieces including A Man 2000 and Amoeba Blues 2003, and duo performances with live musicians, Rajesh Mehta, Marco Ciciliano, Han Buhrs.
She has had a strong solo career including the recent A Singular Gesture 2006/07 at Dansateliers Rotterdam and Tanzfabrik Berlin, a performative installation involving movement, drawing and video. She recently in spring 2009 adapted this into a gallery exhibition/installation at The Dartington Gallery.
She has a long-standing collaboration with musician/composer Han Buhrs, including the film Waterman for the BBC/NPS Dance for the Camera in 2003, live duet project ECHO and the currently touring EtsBeest, a move/draw/sound research project with pre-school children. With Etsbeest they have been invited to festivals and symposia all over Europe 2008-2010, (Helsinki, Paris, Nantes, Salzburg, Hamm, Liege).
Katrina completed an MA in 2006 at the theatre school in Amsterdam in choreography and new technologies where she researched the nature of action/trace through moving/drawing. Within this she created a series of performance events on site, in galleries, schools and theatre. Her final piece was a website: www.katrinabrown.net/moving_drawing.
During this time she developed a link with the research centre L'Animal a L'Esquena in Catalonia, with residencies in 2006 and 2007 and will be returning in 2010. There she researched notions around verticality and the flat surface and the making of a 'book'. www.openbook1.wordpress.com
She is currently working on two projects:
- Publishing a series of art books in Holland
- A performance project with dramaturge/writer Igor Dobricic and her son; Time has no Colour, a research into moments of (in)equality. www.jkbrown.wordpress.com and www.colourbk.wordpress.com
Her Essay; that folds back on a memory of chalk paths was published in the Dutch Theatre Institute biannual book Research in Dance, edited by the University of Utrecht.
Katrina is currently researching a performance with her son and with dramaturge Igor Dobricic. Firstly as a residency at the choreographic centre of La Gomera in 2008, researching moments (in)equality and now as a presentation in september at Het Veem Theater Amsterdam
She leads workshops and projects with amateurs, students, children, professionals.
Teaching in Stichting Buitenkunst NL, Tanzfabrik Berlin, DCA UK, Nagib Festival Slovenia
Katrina is a fully qualified shiatsu therapist, studying at The School for Iokai Shiatsu 2000-2004
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