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. 


 

External Links

Contact details

Email katrina.brown@falmouth.ac.uk
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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 Earth

    Research 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 Culture

    Research Topics

    • Choreography
    • dorsality
    • Drawing
    • politics of performance
    • pratice-based research
    • score

    Research Outputs

    Publications and research outputs

    • Brown, Katrina and Tate St Ives

      (2022), between Sol and sea and grey, In: 'The Last Weekend' Tate St.Ives, 7-8 May 2022, Tate St.Ives, St.Ives, Cornwall

    • Brown, Katrina

      (2020), 3 Em[bed]ding circle, In: Alone with Everybody/ Ods Art Festival, 27 May 2021, Ods Arts Festival 2021 Somerset

    • Brown, Katrina and Irvine, Rosanna

      (2016), what remains and is to come, In: what remains and is to come, 2016, Tramway Glasgow, Item availability may be restricted.

    • Brown, Katrina

      (2020), Working low: activating the horizontal plane, In: Body, Space, and Place in Collective and Collaborative Drawing: Drawing Conversations II (Hardback), Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Cambridge, ISBN: 9781527541962, Item availability may be restricted.

    • Brown, Katrina and Diepenheim Drawing Centre, Diepenheim, The Netherlands

      (2019), and a body turns, In: Embodied Lines, 21.09.2019 - 05.01.2020, Diepenheim Drawing Centre, Kunstvereniging, Diepenheim, The Netherlands, Item availability may be restricted.

    • Brown, Katrina and Irvine, Rosanna

      (2016), surface/sphere, In: surface/sphere, 18-19 May 2016, London UK

    • Brown, Katrina

      Cocker, Emma, (2024), Dorsal Practices—Towards a Back-Oriented Being-in-the-World, In: Humanities, MDPI, Basel Switzerland, 13 (2), ISSN: 2076-0787

    • Brown, Katrina

      (2022), circling, tumbling, dancing around: Back pieces, In: Choreographic Practices, Intellect, UK, 13 (2), pp. 145-163, ISSN: 2040-5669

    • Brown, Katrina

      (2022), circling, tumbling, dancing around: Back pieces., In: Choreographic Practices, Intellect, Bristol, 13 (2), pp. 145-163, ISSN: 20405669

    • Brown, Katrina

      (2019), Translucent surface/Quiet body, redistributed, In: Journal for Artistic Research JAR, Society for Artistic Research SAR, JAR, 2019 (18), ISSN: 2235-0225

    • Brown, Katrina

      (2016), She's only doing this: scores, In: Theatre Dance and Performance Training, Routledge/taylor & Francis, London UK, 9 (2), pp. 190-192, ISSN: 1944-3927 print

    • Brown, Katrina

      (2015), Translucent surface/Quiet body, In: Performance Research, Taylor & Francis, London, UK, 20 (6), pp. 101-105, ISSN: 1352-8156 print

    • Brown, Katrina

      (2019), Writing body/annotating gesture, In: Annual Conference SAR 10, March 2019, Zurich University of the Arts

    • Arnold, Bram, Brown, Katrina and Susan Trangmar

      (2014), Performing Site; Symposium of practice-based research, In: Performing Site, 9-10 April 2014, Falmouth, UK

    • Brown, Katrina and Irvine, Rosanna

      (2014), What remains and is to come: a document, Middlesex University, London UK, ISBN: 9781859243329

    Events

    2018

    Workshop; 'Mining for Lost Movement in collaboration with RCA MA critical writers as part of the Groundwork Programme of Events May 2018

    Events

    2017

    Residencies exploring body-place at CAST Helston and Siliainia Project Lithuania Artist books published 'ASSEMBLED; tilt/rhythm/dust' and 'STILLED: tilt/rhythm/concrete'

    Events

    2016

    what remains and is to come Katrina Brown & Rosanna Irvine Tramway Glasgow

    Events

    2014

    what remains and is to come : A Document Katrina Brown & Rosanna Irvine Publication of Artist Book

    Events

    2014

    Etsbeest Katrina Brown & Han Buhrs A performance event for and with pre-school children

    Events

    2012

    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

    2016

    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