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![]() AnnouncementsBoston Globe's Top 5 Picks Courtney Brown and Carmen Caruso"Both are members of Electrolab, a subversive soprano/accordion/DJ collective, and odds are good this performance will include moaning, shrieking, computers, postmodern cabaret, fringe theories of performance, and tango." -- Joan Anderman of The Boston Globe SEAMUS 2008, Salt Lake City, UT, April 3, 4PMEXCITING Premiere of "Pop Presto No. 2", a work for fixed media Bio
Courtney Brown has long harbored aspirations of becoming an Edward Gorey heroine, but her attempts have thus far been foiled. In lieu of her unlikely but tragic demise, she makes strange dark music and fiddles with electronics. Her most recent work, Every Night I Lose Control, is an electronic post-modern cabaret act that explores the ideas of disintegration and failure. Every piece is designed so that she, as a performer, will fail. This show follows the trajectory of her attempts to regain balance and composure in the wreckage. Heavily influenced by tango, Weimar cabaret, and early goth rock, this work explores the danger of performance and ultimately exposes the vulnerabilities of its performer.
Email: courtney [dot] brown [at] dartmouth [dot] edu |
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