Sadler’s Wells presents Charlotte Spencer Projects’ Is this a Waste Land? from Friday 17 – Sunday 19 September and Friday 24 September – Sunday 26 September.
This interactive and absorbing experience takes place at Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, just moments away from Sadler’s Wells’ fourth London venue, due to open in 2023. The work is a performance through headphones for disused urban sites.
This immersive performance, with five performers and hundreds of objects, invites us to re-imagine how we value our landscape, homes and communities. As day dips towards night, audience members follow instructions through headphones amidst a constantly shifting soundscape, acting with others to create a unique and shared experience.
Charlotte Spencer Projects regularly creates work for non-theatre spaces, working with diverse and unusual sites to open up new forms of conversation. They challenge where performances can happen and how choreographic work is made and encountered through action and participation.
Is this a Waste Land? was supported using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England. Co-commissioned by Deep Roots Tall Trees, Compass Commission from the Greenwich Dance and Trinity Laban Partnership, Patrons of Charlotte Spencer Projects and a crowdfund campaign.
Further funding from South East Dance, Greenwich Dance and Pavilion Dance South West. Supported via South East Dance and Jerwood Charitable Foundation Dramaturg in Residence programme. 2021 performances are being presented in partnership with Dance North, Scotland and Sadler’s Wells, London. This presentation is supported by London Legacy Development Corporation.
