BATON

Work in progress performance 28 October, Imaginate Autumn Exchange, created in association with the Lyceum Theatre Company

Baton is currently in further development and is longlisted for the Oxford Samuel Beckett Theatre Trust Award.



Photo by David Tinto.


How does the notion of achievement affect how, when and if we grow up?

Baton fuses energetic and playful choreography with true testimonial accounts of experiences, spoken with honesty into a microphone. Baton leads you into the performance and lets you walk along a maze of coloured basketball court lines on the floor as you try to find your way to the right place in the room. Baton hits the central nervous system with live drumming right next to your body and makes you wonder ‘is it really OK for me to be here? Isn’t this just a little bit too anarchic for me?’ Baton is your first gig. Baton makes you wear a coloured wrist band and tells you where to go. Baton makes you laugh and recognise yourself and your awkward moments. Baton makes you feel part of something exciting and courageous. Baton reminds you of how it feels to be lonely and alone.

Baton is performed by teenagers. For you.

“winning is participating!”. National Baton Twirling Association (USA)
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FIRST UP BEST DRESSED

2 and 3 April, Battersea Arts Centre, 16 and 17 April The Arches (part of Forest Fringe Micro Festivals), 9 & 10 August, Forest Fringe.

First Up Best Dressed is an interactive-clothes-swap-party-installation.

The clothes we wear say so much about us. This is a chance for us to say something about the clothes we wear. First Up Best Dressed was once a playground insult, a cruel and petty taunt aimed at the poor kids dressed in ill-fitting hand-me-downs and odd socks. Stadium Rock want to reclaim the phrase, in the spirit of sharing, memory and adventure.



Photo by Dougal Marwick


'The microfestival at BAC was vibrant and buzzing combination – one highlight being the items of clothing dotted around, inviting you to take them in exchange for an item of your own, and its story.' www.hannahnicklin.com/
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ASK ME ANYTHING ... ANYTHING AT ALL, Saturday 15 May 2010, Traverse Theatre Bar as part of the Imaginate Festival Fringe for Children and Families




ASK ME ANYTHING ... ANYTHING AT ALL is a teenager questioning booth.

Teenagers, you know, that scary and misunderstood species from somewhere above childhood and somewhere beneath adults. Now is your chance (if you dare) to find out a little more about them. What do they eat? When was their first kiss? Have they ever done anything dangerous? You can even ask them for a little bit of advice about yourself ...
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THE MARSHMALLOW TEST
SHUNT, London, 9th and 10th September 2009
Forest Fringe, Monday 17 August 2009

'a work-in-progress that's already a fluffy pink confection of a show.' (The Herald on The Marshmallow Test)



Photo credit: Katy Wilson

'a playful multimedia treatise on temptation, pleasure, self-control, deferred gratification, out and out desire and other things little girls may or may not still be made of when they grow up.'
(The Herald)

The Marshmallow Test is currently under further development and a new performance will ber presented at Dance base on 17 June.

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CABLE, Arches Live!, 17 and 18 September 2009

Wires. Static. Sound. A guitar. Colour. Shapes. Instruction. Movement. Voices. Layers. Repetition. Practice.

'a show full of sharp urban stories and amazing sounds.' (The Scotsman)



Photo by Stephen McGarry


Bringing together people, music, objects, text, and movement – like a forgotten music video that has escaped from the confines of the screen and come to life; this work is spontaneous; it is directed live; it’s actually happening…

We’re doing this because we're really excited by that live-ness and in-the-moment-ness that happens in rehearsals, when everyone is making stuff up, creating, exploring, negotiating and discovering… Those are the magical moments, the truly exciting snippets of time that can never, ever be repeated.

Or can they?



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I AM A CHILD / Dance Base residency / November 2007



An exploration of the psychogeography of childhood with a magical guitar playing rabbit.

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