Mary Kate Connolly is a writer, researcher and lecturer in dance and performance studies. Her research focuses primarily on live performance practices, costume and visual art. Publications include Throwing the Body into the Fight: A Portrait of Raimund Hoghe (Intellect 2013). She led the Postgraduate MA and MFA Creative Practice at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance until 2016, when she commenced doctoral research at the University of Roehampton, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council. Her Ph.D. project is centred on the costume archive of British choreographer Lea Anderson.