We peruse the stretch, from swan pedalos, drifting on the water, which to be fair is probably more delightful in summer. And walk past artist Michael Landy’s playful cockney rhyming slang installation. Later, at Sadler’s Wells, we watch an extraordinary performance by Marc Brew, a ballerina who profoundly reinvented his art after being made paraplegic in a car accident, working in collaboration with choreographer Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui (the genius behind Beyonce and Jay Z’s Apeshit video). At times, Stratford’s sleek minimalism and the sheer scale of its architecture feel alienating, and bleak — like LA without the sun.
