New performance test track

Scratch Nights

New performance test track: live explorations into bold territories.
ABOUT THE PROJECT

We started doing regular showings of rough performance ideas at the BATS out of site bar in 2013. The idea was to make stuff fast and get feedback over a beer. Initially a space to develop our own work, we found the forum to be incredibly rewarding as a testing ground for new ideas and material – some of which took us by surprise to spawn whole new works.

We wanted to share this good thing, so we opened the floor to any artist of the live persuasion interested in genuine performance experimentation. Joel operated Scratch Nights on the first Wednesday of every month, between 2013–14.

The series then evolved into bigger standalone Scratch Nachts, produced by Simon Haren, Sabrina Martin and George Fenn, the first of which took place at Fringe 2015, with over 150 guests, 20 acts, 3 bands and 2 noise complaints, subsequently winning ‘Innovative Concept’ at the Fringe Awards.

Hosted by BATS Out-of-Site

Produced by Joel Baxendale

Perfomers:

Binge Culture, Callum Devlin and Freya Daly Sadgrove, Jen O'Sullivan, Definitely Not Witches, George Fenn, Aaron Pyke, David Klein, Gooseberry Bush Puppet Company, Nisha Madhan and Julia Croft, Thomas LaHood, Pipi-Ayesha Evans and co., Patacake Productions, Johnny Potts, Joy de Vivre, Playground Collective, Catherine Goodwin, Barnie Duncan, Monolith (Uther Dean, Andrew Simpson), Pinwheel Dance Theatre, Barbarian Productions, James Nokise, Jenny McArthur, Theo Taylor, Thomas LaHood, Owen Baxendale, Toucan Stubbs, The Cycle Players

Wellington 2013–2015

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