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Two dancers wearing all black bend over with their arms outstretched. They have silk scarfs tied to their wrists, and the fabric hangs down to the stage. A screen is behind them with 'Elle Chante' projected onto it. The lighting is red.
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Elle Chante: Accessible Dreamscapes

Sat 7 Sep 2024, 8pm

This immersive music performance by artist Elle Chante explores performance and presentation from a disabled perspective through music and dance.

Threading together airy vocals with cinematic and experimental production, Chante sings about the human experience, creating work that is both hauntingly vulnerable and powerfully fragile.

Existing outside the norms of society for her entire life, she seeks to share the experience of being an outsider by making art that celebrates the eccentric, validates the difficulties of living and helps us all to feel a little less alone.

The show combines learnings from access focus groups with Elle’s surreal and enchanting musical world, taking audiences on a tender, vulnerable journey of lived experience of complex physical and mental health conditions, culminating with a sharing of Chante’s new EP Penumbra.

Accessible Dreamscapes, integrates sensory experiences and arts technologies to meet a range of audience access needs and interests.

Chante is a musical self expressionist based in Wolverhampton, UK. Turning to music as a form of therapy, her siren-like sound developed through her experiences of Complex PTSD, EDS, POTS and Thyroid cancer.

Commissioned by Unlimited and The Glasshouse International Centre for Music.

Need to know

Age guidance
For ages 16+
Content warnings
Contains scenes that some may find distressing. CW: cancer, adoption, child abuse, disability, complex mental health and ableism.

Times & tickets

Dates, times and prices

Dates & times

07 Sep 2024, 8pm

Run time

1 hour and 50 minutes (approx)

All timings are approximate and subject to change

Standard entry

Free – ticket required

Access

Access events

The performance on Saturday 7 September at 8.00pm is British sign language interpreted (BSL) and Speech to text Book now

This performance is British Sign Language interpreted (BSL) and Speech-to-Text transcribed (STT).

To book tickets for BSL interpretation, email [email protected] or call us on 020 3879 9555.

You can join our free Access Scheme through your online Southbank Centre account or via email.
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For your visit

This event is held at the The Clore Ballroom Southbank Centre

The Clore Ballroom is open daily.

Monday & Tuesday, 10am – 6pm*
Wednesday – Sunday, 10am – 11pm

*If we’re hosting a performance, the building will stay open until the event ends.