Lift
A performance in 3 acts by Kate Donnelly
April, 2022, Danville, Vermont
May, 2022, Burlington, Vermont
September, 2022, Shelburne, Vermont
About the performance:
The first installment of work begun before the Pandemic, Kate Donnelly’s performance introduces an archive of unruly grief and her attendant: desire. It tracks the artist’s own movements, along with those of her sister and mother, within sites made transcendent by grief: an old farmhouse, a garden, family. It foregrounds efforts of futility: bodies orbit annoyance and longing against backgrounds transforming at their own slow and steady pace.
Generous support provided by Vermont Arts Council, Vermont Studio Center, The Pollock Krasner Foundation, and Snakehouse VT.
The first installment of work begun before the Pandemic, Kate Donnelly’s performance introduces an archive of unruly grief and her attendant: desire. It tracks the artist’s own movements, along with those of her sister and mother, within sites made transcendent by grief: an old farmhouse, a garden, family. It foregrounds efforts of futility: bodies orbit annoyance and longing against backgrounds transforming at their own slow and steady pace.
Generous support provided by Vermont Arts Council, Vermont Studio Center, The Pollock Krasner Foundation, and Snakehouse VT.