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Get your skates on for first season at eastern outpost of Sadler's Wells
Evening Standard|September 10, 2024
THE new east London base of Sadler’s Wells today announced its first season of shows including a performance that will see the venue transformed into a skatepark.
- Robert Dex
Get your skates on for first season at eastern outpost of Sadler's Wells

The building opens its doors in Stratford in February as part of the transformation of the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park into the East Bank which will become a new cultural quarter home to institutions including the BBC, V&A, London College of Fashion and UCL.

Among the performances in the 2025 season is Danish choreographer Mette Ingvartsen’s Skatepark, which teams up dancers with skateboarders on a stage filled with ramps to explore “the speed and energy of movement on wheels”.

The multi-million-pound new venue will also show off its flexibility by being transformed at different times into a photography studio and a rave-era dance floor.

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