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Meet Mr Right in an age of Serial Killers: Live art in the Capital

SPILL Festival is showing that live art is hot - but is it underepresented in the capital? What's on the agenda, and how can you meet Mr Right while avoiding serial killers... Marnie McKee takes us inside an ecclectic festival that mixes the arts with the social.

13 Apr 2007 12:00

Marnie McKee

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Performing Arts

“How do you meet Mr Right and not Mr Very Very Wrong?” asks Fiona Sprott from touring performance group Unreasonable Adults. Domination, violence, serial murder and corpses are images we may associate with the underworld – dark and something separate from ourselves. But when we add images of transformation, modern myths, painful break-ups, medical examinations, looking for love in the city and stories of great iconic figures, we end up with something closer to our own living room. Enter SPILL Festival of Performance being held in London from 2-22 April and addressing all of the above from a decidedly socially engaged place.

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Marnie McKee

About the Author

Marnie McKee currently lives in London. In the mid-90’s she co-founded ToyBox Circus staging fire and light shows and art installations Australia-wide. Marnie co-produced two major Bodyweather-based works with dancer/director Leah Grycewicz. They toured Pre-Millenium Drinks across Australia (1998); and staged Stratus999, a 3-month site-specific multi-media dance project involving 8 international artists, in Cairns, Queensland. Marnie studied Bodyweather as part of Tess de Quincey’s Sydney-based dance company (1999-2001). In March 2004, Marnie settled in London and has since concentrated on establishing Bodyweather training in London, with dancer/teacher Rachel Sweeney. Together they have worked as AnonAnon, researching and creating interactive performance for site-based work (ranging from nightclub to national park) using immersive, inhabitational and durational tools. Congruently, Marnie has been training with and performing for Stuart Lynch (of Holberg School) in Oslo and London, and more recently, training with Frank van de Ven of Bodyweather Amsterdam in Holland and France.