wasteland
Gary Clarke Company
The eagerly-awaited sequel to Gary Clarke’s multi-award winning COAL…
AS INDUSTRIAL BRITAIN FELL, A NEW SUBCULTURE EMERGED….
‘In 1994, the European Study of Deprivation named my home village of Grimethorpe as one of the poorest villages in Europe. As poverty and depression shattered through the village, the future looked bleak for my generation. The birth of the rave culture gave many of us the opportunity to escape these grim and grey realities and into a new world of expressive music and hard core dance. WASTELAND is my attempt at recapturing this pivotal time in British history when industrial Britain fell and a new sub culture emerged. I owe my passion for movement and dance to this time and the people who lived it.’
Gary Clarke 2019
★★★★★
‘Wasteland is a truly wonderful piece of dance-theatre: humane, politically charged, by turns funny and sad.’
THE STAGE (ANNA WINTER)
★★★★★
‘Its stunning combination of movement, music and imagery makes for an unforgettable work of angry, emotional, celebratory, political dance.’
THE HERALD ON SUNDAY (MARK BROWN)
★★★★★
‘This is a powerful, accomplished piece of dance theatre and a timely reminder of the social consequences of political actions.’
THE REVIEWS HUB (JONATHAN CASH)
★★★★
‘Dance taken at a barnstorming, frantic pace with a sharp political edge to boot… its picture of alienated youth rising from the ashes and finding both escape and a sense of purpose in the hedonistic release of rave culture is curiously uplifting.’
THE METRO (KEITH WATSON)
Photo credits: Joe Armitage Boneshaker Photography