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12 October 2024 / Grants and Awards

New book on the Cholmondeleys and the Featherstonehaughs

Only a few days to go until the official launch of In Smithereens: The Costume Remains of Lea Anderson’s Stage, written by Dr Mary Kate Connolly, published by Intellect Books and kindly supported by a Society of Theatre Research Grant.

https://www.intellectbooks.com/in-smithereens

Launch events are being hosted in London and Bristol for this book, alongside the Cholmondeley’s ‘Birthday Book‘, (edited by Mary Kate Connolly and published by The Cholmondeleys), celebrating 40 years of the company.

Tuesday 15th October (following an Artist Encounter with Lea Anderson and Mary Kate Connolly for Dance Umbrella festival):
7.30pm at Laban
Creekside, London SE8 3DZ

Thursday 24th October:
6.30pm at The Mount Without
Upper Church Lane, Bristol BS2 8FN

Mary Kate Connolly is a writer, editor and curator based in London, UK.

Her forthcoming monograph In Smithereens: The Costume Remains of Lea Anderson’s Stage (Intellect, 2024) centres on the archive of The Cholmondeleys and The Featherstonehaughs. Mary Kate’s longstanding collaboration with Lea Anderson continues to unfold, finding new ways in which embodied objects and garments can live on beyond the performances in which they first took flight. In 2021, she curated Smithereens: A Collection of Fragments Considered as a Whole – a multimedia exhibition, at studio 1.1, London. Previous edited publications include Throwing the Body into the Fight: A Portrait of Raimund Hoghe (2013) and People Show: Nobody Knows but Everybody Remembers (2016). Mary Kate is former Programme Leader of the MA and MFA creative practice at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance. She presents her research internationally and has performed at Prague Quadrennial, Brut Wien and SPILL, UK. Mary Kate is Co-Editor (with artist David Caines) of COMPOST, a multidisciplinary arts zine.

@connolly.marykate