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Mary Kate Connolly is a freelance writer and movement practitioner based in London
How does one capture the live, the ephemeral and the fleeting? With all live performance there is an element of loss at the very moment of its realisation. The performed moment can never be recaptured in precisely the same way. It can however Read on…
Published by Unbound, London
1 August 2008
There is something about the jaunty cosiness of the Chisenhale Dance Space which seemed to suit the Cloud Dance Festival just perfectly. Something perhaps in the warmth of the careworn, mismatched furniture which bedecks the lobby…and equally Read on…
Cloud Dance Festival @ the Chisenhale Dance Space, London
26 - 28 September 2008
‘What are the main themes of New Life Berlin?’ questions the wooloo website rhetorically. Answer: ‘Transnational Communities…Artistic Social Responsibility…[and] Participation and Intervention’.In realising New Read on…
New Life Gallery, Berlin
31 May - 15 June 2008
How many artists does it take to build a house? Answer: as many as show up at secret location in Berlin’s city centre at 10pm tonight! A Welsh tradition borne out of rural poverty, necessity and an ancient legal loophole forms the Read on…
New Life Berlin Shop, Berlin
7 June 2008
As the gritty city heat of midsummer lapsed into stale dusk last eve, the inhabitants of Berlin magnetically grouped into tight groups at pavement cafes. With the fixed stares of guinea pigs in fiendish sensory experiments, they appeared first Read on…
Alexander Platz, Berlin
7 - 8 June 2008
My what a delight; a delectable retinue of recollection, supposition and wordplay. A trove of roving consciousness in a scroll, a stream of reams and reams of descriptions, tripping downwards to where it all began….Members of the New Life Read on…
Open Dialogues @ New Life Berlin, Berlin
31 May - 15 June 2008