WASTELAND - Gary Clarke Company

‘The eagerly-awaited sequel to Gary Clarke’s multi-award winning COAL…’

‘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 premiered in 2019 with 3 National tours, until the Covid-19 Pandemic.

As a performer, I played both a ‘Raver’ and ‘The Boy’. I also delivered multiple bespoke WASTELAND workshops across the UK and online as part of Gary Clarke Company.

WASTELAND is a physically and emotionally demanding work that involves 6 professional dancers, a community cast of 4 male choir singers and 2 community brass players.

For full details visit: https://wastelandtour.co.uk/