Dance Hack Day is a global celebration of technology and the choreographic arts. Participating in this year’s Amsterdam sister site event with an evolution of my light-up motion-responsive Arduino costume was a joy and a privilege. My biggest learning from the weekend is that with the right kind of supportive and open environment, even someone … Continue reading
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Let there be light! (An Arduino Adventure)
I think there is no greater power on this earth than creativity: the freedom to forge, even in a small way, the world in the way that it should be. And I knew that my world needed a new creative fabric-and-programming project in it. I’m not sure exactly when I got interested in learning to … Continue reading
String, post-its and dancing bots: Mozilla Festival 2016
Yet another Mozilla Festival has come to an end. This year I presented for the first time, delivering a session on network evaluation methodology. The lead analyst for Mozilla’s Leadership Network, Arliss Collins, co-presented with me on Mozilla’s approach to network evaluation. Before the session we both agreed that as it was a methodology session … Continue reading
Dancing Graph
Recently I’ve been exploring Neo4j, a graph database that makes it easy to see the connections between things. It’s a great way to visualise Twitter data, for example. Yesterday I went to see the McOnie Company’s Jekyll & Hyde at the Old Vic. I had the pleasure of reviewing the McOnie Company’s original show Drunk … Continue reading
Wilton’s Strike! Dance Festival: Review for Everything Theatre
I reviewed Wilton’s Strike! dance festival for Everything Theatre: Wilton’s Music Hall is a wondrous tiny empire of creativity tucked away in a less than trendy part of the East End. Squeezed on all sides by the trendy bits, Tower Hamlets nonetheless stubbornly clinging to its own lack of trendiness – I live nearby. It … Continue reading
Wilton’s Strike! Dance Festival: Review for Everything Theatre
I reviewed Wilton’s Strike! dance festival for Everything Theatre: Wilton’s Music Hall is a wondrous tiny empire of creativity tucked away in a less than trendy part of the East End. Squeezed on all sides by the trendy bits, Tower Hamlets nonetheless stubbornly clinging to its own lack of trendiness – I live nearby. It … Continue reading
Who Needs an Ethnographer? Update
The folks over at Ethnography Matters picked up my post Who Needs an Ethnographer? considering the ways that a volunteer ethnographic project could be designed and how it could be community-led. I’m chuffed to bits to be featured on Ethnography Matters which I think is a fantastic publication with a great archive of useful insights. … Continue reading
Thick and Tight and 70/30 Split, The Lion & Unicorn Theatre – Review for Everything Theatre
I reviewed this double bill for Everything Theatre: Part of the GOlive Dance and Performance Festival at the Lion and Unicorn Theatre, it took me a little while to understand the rationale behind pairing these acts by Thick and Tight (Daniel Hay-Gordon and Eleanor Perry) and 70/30 Split (Lydia Cottrell and Sophie Unwin). As the … Continue reading
Thick and Tight and 70/30 Split, The Lion & Unicorn Theatre – Review for Everything Theatre
I reviewed this double bill for Everything Theatre: Part of the GOlive Dance and Performance Festival at the Lion and Unicorn Theatre, it took me a little while to understand the rationale behind pairing these acts by Thick and Tight (Daniel Hay-Gordon and Eleanor Perry) and 70/30 Split (Lydia Cottrell and Sophie Unwin). As the … Continue reading
McOnie Company’s Drunk: a Pleasantly Tipsy Evening
Drew McOnie’s Drunk at London’s Bridewell Theatre is a lively exploration of alcohol’s influence on romantic encounters. We begin, appropriately enough, in “Happy Hour.” Each of the performers arrives on a stage made up as a crowded bar and meets their particular poison, experiencing its unexpected, humorous, sensuous, and sometimes frightening effects on the body: Martini (Daniel … Continue reading
In a Merry Hour: Caitlin E McDonald 