“Whatever ideas you have about dance being free, fluid, expressive and free-form, you just have to put those out of your mind,” John Tuomey tells Building, half shouting over the heavy winds blowing across Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park.

Sadler’s Wells East is O’Donnell + Tuomey’s first ever dance theatre scheme, but its opening last night was more than just a landmark for the Irish practice. It also marked an important point in the development of East Bank, a new arts quarter backed by the mayor of London’s biggest ever cultural investment which aims to drag the cultural centre of gravity in the capital eastwards.