Rate My Professor Carol Brown

Professor Carol Brown is Professor of Choreography and Head of Dance at the Victorian College of the Arts in the Faculty of Fine Arts and Music at the University of Melbourne. A dancer, choreographer, and artist-scholar from Aotearoa New Zealand, her work has been presented globally with a renowned transdisciplinary reach. Trained in the Bodenwieser style by Shona Dunlop-MacTavish in Dunedin, she completed a history honours degree at the University of Otago, an MA in Dance Studies, and one of the first practice-led PhDs in Dance at the University of Surrey. Following her PhD solo The Mechanics of Fluids, she was appointed Choreographer in Residence at the Place Theatre London, founding Carol Brown Dances. Her choreographies have toured internationally at festivals including Roma Europa, Dance Umbrella, and Brighton Festival, and been commissioned by Scottish Dance Theatre, Verve, Subcircle, Group Motion, Touch Compass, STRUT, and DanceXchange. Previous academic appointments include lecturing positions at the University of Surrey and Brighton University, Reader in Dance at Roehampton University, and Associate Professor in Choreography at the University of Auckland, where she founded Choreographic Research Aotearoa. She joined the University of Melbourne in mid-2019.