Dr Katrina Brown
Senior Lecturer Dance & Choreography
Dr. Katrina Brown is a choreographer with an interdisciplinary hybrid practice across movement, drawing and still-and-moving image. Her work is presented in gallery-like situations, theatre spaces and site locations as well as on the artist-page. She produces material and digital documents as extensions of live work, drawing residues and processual activities of moving, drawing, sensing, thinking. Recent choreographic works included the series of durational drawing scores 'She's only doing this: scores', the documenting-installation project 'Translucent surface/Quiet body' and the collaborative works with Rosanna Irvine, 'surface/sphere' commissioned for the What Festival; The Anatomy of an Artist (Siobhan Davies Dance/Independent Dance) and performance-installation and artist book 'what remains and is the come' supported by Arts Council England.
She was based in the Netherlands for 23 years as an independent performer/choreographer/teacher including at the School for New Dance Development in Amsterdam. She relocated to the UK to take up a post at Dartington College of Arts in 2009. She is currently Senior Lecturer Dance & Choreography at Falmouth University. Her practice-based PhD "body/intersect/surface: A Choreographic View of Drawing" (2017) investigated drawing as a choreographic activity in relation to material process, score and surface dimension: proposing a quiet politics of performing presence working in the horizontal plane of the floor.
In the Netherlands her choreographic work was produced by DansWerkplaats Amsterdam and the [Nes]Theaters in Amsterdam and supported by Dutch funding bodies. She has a long-standing collaboration with musician/composer Han Buhrs, including the film 'Waterman' for the BBC/ACE/NPS Dance for the Camera in 2003, live duet project 'ECHO' 2006 and 'Etsbeest' 2008-2014, a performance for and with a pre-school audience that has traveled internationally to diverse urban projects, festivals and symposia.
She also has a long-standing relationship with the dance research centre L'Animal a L'Esquena in Catalonia, Spain developing work in residence including Openbook 2005, Moving/Drawing, An Archive of Traces 2006 for her Masters Degree at Theatreschool Amsterdam and more recently as part of the PhD the documenting project Translucent surface/Quiet body 2015. Recent residencies at CAST in Helston, Cornwall and Silainia-Project, Lithuania have been exploring body-place through moving, drawing, writing and workshop. Two artist publications have been produced as extensions of the research process.
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Qualifications
Qualifications
| Year | Qualification | Awarding body |
|---|---|---|
| 2017 | PhD | UAL |
| 2006 | MA | AHK Amsterdam |
| 2004 | Iokai Shiatsu Diploma | Iokai |
| 1973 | BEd 1st Class Hons Mathematics | Exeter |
Membership of external committees
Director on board of Art Dot EarthResearch Interests
Research interests and expertise
Current research interests include:
- choreography as interdisciplinary and hybrid
- drawing as choreographic activity
- score-based activity
- documentation and choreographing the page
- performance-installation and cross-disciplinary practice
Research centre and group affiliations
Material & Visual CultureResearch Topics
- Choreography
- dorsality
- Drawing
- politics of performance
- pratice-based research
- score
Research Outputs
Publications and research outputs
Article
Brown, Katrina  ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9651-5233 (2019) Translucent surface/Quiet body, redistributed. Journal for Artistic Research JAR, 2019 (18). ISSN 2235-0225 | ![[thumbnail of Screenshot online article]](http://repository.falmouth.ac.uk/3553/1/Screen%20Shot%202019-09-29%20at%2015.46.29.png) ![[thumbnail of Screenshot online article]](http://repository.falmouth.ac.uk/3553/2/Screen%20Shot%202019-10-03%20at%2008.49.22.png) |
| Brown, Katrina ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9651-5233 (2016) She's only doing this: scores. Theatre Dance and Performance Training, 9 (2). pp. 190-192. ISSN 1944-3927 print | |
| Brown, Katrina ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9651-5233 (2015) Translucent surface/Quiet body. Performance Research, 20 (6). pp. 101-105. ISSN 1352-8156 print | |
Book Section
| Brown, Katrina ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9651-5233 (2020) Working low: activating the horizontal plane. In: Body, Space, and Place in Collective and Collaborative Drawing: Drawing Conversations II (Hardback). Drawing Conversations . Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Cambridge. ISBN 9781527541962 Item availability may be restricted. | ![[thumbnail of DC2_Ch.3_Accepted version_K.Brown_Feb 2019.pdf]](https://repository.falmouth.ac.uk/style/images/fileicons/text.png) ![[thumbnail of Em[bed]ding circle_Book Chapter DC2_Fig 3.2]](http://repository.falmouth.ac.uk/3556/1/Em%5Bbed%5Dding%20circle_K.Brown_video%20still.jpg) |
Conference or Workshop Item
| Brown, Katrina ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9651-5233 (2019) Writing body/annotating gesture. In: Annual Conference SAR 10, March 2019, Zurich University of the Arts. | |
| Arnold, Bram and Brown, Katrina ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9651-5233 (2014) Performing Site; Symposium of practice-based research. In: Performing Site, 9-10 April 2014, Falmouth, UK. Item not available from this repository. |
Book
| Brown, Katrina ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9651-5233 and Irvine, Rosanna (2014) What remains and is to come: a document. Middlesex University, London UK. ISBN 9781859243329 | ![[thumbnail of book cover]](http://repository.falmouth.ac.uk/2369/1/Book%20Cover%20_what%20remains.png) |
Exhibition
| Brown, Katrina ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9651-5233 (2019) and a body turns. [Exhibition] Item availability may be restricted. | ![[thumbnail of publicity image for exhibition]](http://repository.falmouth.ac.uk/3554/2/Diepenheim%20publiciteit.jpg) |
| Brown, Katrina ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9651-5233 and Irvine, Rosanna (2016) surface/sphere. [Exhibition] | ![[thumbnail of video excerpt from installation 'surface sphere' 2016 by Brown & Irvine]](https://repository.falmouth.ac.uk/style/images/fileicons/video.png) |
Performance
| Brown, Katrina ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9651-5233 (2020) 3 Em[bed]ding circle. [Performance] | ![[thumbnail of Documentation. Drawing Score Performance_3 Embedding Circle]](http://repository.falmouth.ac.uk/4411/1/Copy%20of%20DSC03844.jpg) |
| Brown, Katrina ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9651-5233 and Irvine, Rosanna (2016) what remains and is to come. [Performance] Item availability may be restricted. | ![[thumbnail of Performance 'what remains and is to come' at Karst Gallery Plymouth 2014]](http://repository.falmouth.ac.uk/2374/1/Karst%203_IMG_9043.jpg) ![[thumbnail of Remaining outcome from performance Karst Gallery 2014]](http://repository.falmouth.ac.uk/2374/2/_DSC9897.JPG) |
Events
Workshop; 'Mining for Lost Movement in collaboration with RCA MA critical writers as part of the Groundwork Programme of Events May 2018
Events
Residencies exploring body-place at CAST Helston and Siliainia Project Lithuania Artist books published 'ASSEMBLED; tilt/rhythm/dust' and 'STILLED: tilt/rhythm/concrete'
Events
what remains and is to come Katrina Brown & Rosanna Irvine Tramway Glasgow
Events
what remains and is to come : A Document Katrina Brown & Rosanna Irvine Publication of Artist Book
Events
Etsbeest Katrina Brown & Han Buhrs A performance event for and with pre-school children
Events
what remains and is to come Katrina Brown & Rosanna Irvine Performances between 2012-2014 at Karst Plymouth, Backlit Gallery Nottingham, The Performance Centre Falmouth, Nightingale Theatre Brighton, Sokolovsko Festival of Ephemeral Arts, Poland
Events
surface/sphere Katrina Brown & Rosanna Irvine Commission and Video installation for What remains Festival: An Anatomy of an Artist. Siobhan Davies Dance/Independent Dance London
Teaching
Areas of teaching
- Dance Performance and Choreography
Courses taught
- CHR120 Performance and Choreographic practice
- CHR220 Choreography in Context
- CHR260 Choreographing for the screen
- DCH230 Dance Futures
- DCH320 Written Research Project
- DCH330 Professional Practice Project
- DCH360 Practical Research Project
Policy engagement within Cornwall
Engagement with organisations which contribute to the development of educational, cultural or socio-economic policies in Cornwall
CAST Helston. Developing workshops through residency/performance 2017 and Groundwork Project 2018
