Cross disciplinary Arts Collective Stadium Rock make performance based artworks that give the three primary art-forms (performance, visual art, sound) equal status in the process and production. Our work has previously taken forms that are closer to installations and gigs, as well as those more easily described as theatre. We aim to create breath-taking contemporary happenings which aspire to international standards.
Stadium Rock core artists are: Dougal Marwick, Xana Marwick and Katy Wilson.
Stadium Rock reject the hierarchical structure of traditional performance creation, instead constructing our own ways of making events and taking risks, resulting in work that we hope to be right at the forefront of contemporary culture.
PLEASE USE THE DROP DOWN MENUS ABOVE TO FIND OUT MORE ABOUT STADIUM ROCK.
.jpg)
‘clever and hugely promising’ (Joyce McMillan, The Scotsman); ‘Stadium Rock’s brilliant First Up Best Dressed’ (Lyn Gardner, The Guardian); ‘a work in progress that’s already a fluffy pink confection of a show’ (Neil Cooper, The Herald)’ A show full of sharp urban stories and amazing sounds’. (Joyce MacMillan, The Scotsman)
.JPG)
COLLECTIVE BIOG:
2010 / 11 BATON –
an interactive sports themed performance with teenage actors asking the question ‘how do our notion’s of achievement affect how, when and if we grow up?’.
Currently shortlisted for the Oxford Samuel Becket Theatre Trust Award. Will include musical gym equipment.
2010 FIRST UP BEST DRESSED –
an interactive story sharing and clothes swapping installation. With colouring in table. Battersea Arts Centre London, Forest Fringe Edinburgh, The Arches Glasgow.
2010 ASK ME ANYTHING, ANYTHING AT ALL -
A teenager questioning booth and a development work for BATON.
2009 CABLE –
SAC funded onslaught of chaotic noise, interactive storytelling and toast, Arches Live! The Arches Glasgow.
2009 THE MARSHMALLOW TEST –
scientific work in progress with the set designer interactively designing the set live on stage alongside the performer and musician, Dance Base Edinburgh, Shunt London and Forest Fringe Edinburgh. Shortlisted for the 2009/10 Creative Scotland Vital Spark awards.
2007 I AM A CHILD -
residency with looping music, physical performance and a guitar playing rabbit. Dance Base Edinburgh.
CORE ARTIST BIOGS
KATY WILSON – has just completed an 18 month artist residency for Starcatchers at the Tramway in Glasgow where her much acclaimed works including Sprog Rock, The Light Installation and Sparkalator have garnered great industry support and audience delight. Her residency involved research with children aged four years old and under. In the past few years Katy has designed several successful and innovative shows including 'Little Vikings Are Never Lost' by Jenna Watt 'Peep' with Starcatchers and ‘The Marshmallow Test’ (Work in Progress) and 'Cable' with Stadium Rock. Katy has vast experience of devising and leading visual art workshops with a variety of organisations including RSAMD, Dundee Rep, North Edinburgh Arts and also pursues her work in a visual art context in the form of collaborative exhibitions. She has recently completed a residency at the Bundanon Trust near Sydney Australia. Katy has a degree in Drawing and Painting from Edinburgh College of Art. This next year Katy plans to continue making children’s work at the Tramway (keep an eye out for Sprog Rock, This Sucks and more).
Katy Wilson’s design was rated ‘Excellent’ in a SAC Artistic Assessment of Little Viking’s Are Never Lost. And Katy was recently featured as ‘one of Scottish theatre’s young stars’ in The List.
DOUGAL MARWICK – doesn’t really know how to play any musical instruments properly, but does like to find sounds and chop them up and play them again and again and again. Dougal particularly likes old keyboards and rap music and bass guitars and the sound of the sea. Dougal is part of the band 7VWWVW - which means Mammal depending on how you look at it – and improv group Eight Thumbs. As a solo musician/sound designer Dougal has collaborated with a wide variety of people including Wounded Knee(on the acclaimed Here is Where film / music project) and Jer Reid, with whom he created an improvised electronic soundscape for ‘live music video’ Cable and has previously played in support of Will Oldham (aka Bonnie Prince Billie). Dougal also created live and pre recorded soundscapes for The Marshmallow Test (performed as part of the Forest Fringe and at Shunt, London in 2009) fusing electronics, archive recordings and original compositions this performance manipulated sound in real time. Dougal’s other experience as a composer includes A World Away, with Fuse, Liverpool, and scoring I’m in Away From Here, by Catriona McInnes (Vienna and Glasgow Film Festivals 2008) amongst others. Dougal has also performed in and/ or composed for a number of Starcatchers projects at Tramway.
7VWWVW recently selected as one of the List’s new music to watch in 2011 as part of The Moondog Covers project. ‘This beautifully odd ball one of show’ **** (The List on Here Is Where)
thisplusthat.co.uk
XANA MARWICK – has worked throughout Scotland and internationally and is particularly known for making ground-breaking, cross disciplinary work with young adults and children and is Drama Artist at Platform, Glasgow. Some recent achievements include solo interactive work You Suffer, But Why?, co-directing and performing in Ice Pole, co-directing The Incredible Swimming Choir, co-conceiving / directing Baton, First Up Best Dressed, Cable and The Marshmallow Test as part of Stadium Rock Arts Collective. These projects and many others have seen Xana work with / in / for Tramway, Shunt, Battersea Arts Centre, Forest Fringe, Dance Base, The Traverse, The Arches, The Lyceum , Derevo, Akhe, Gallery Wakaka, Imaginate, Fuse and many independent artists.
Xana has been artistically assessed as ‘Excellent’ twice by Creative Scotland (SAC). ‘Xana Marwick’s direction is strong and thoughtful’ (The Scotsman)
________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Contact: stadiumrock[at]btinternet[dot]com