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About Wayne McGregor

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Wayne McGregor is a multi award-winning British choreographer, renowned for his physically testing choreography and ground-breaking collaborations across dance, film, music, visual art, technology and science. He is the Artistic Director of Wayne McGregor | Random Dance, Resident Company at Sadler’s Wells Theatre in London; Resident Choreographer of The Royal Ballet (appointed 2006) and the government’s first Youth Dance Champion (appointed 2008); in 2004 McGregor was a Research Fellow at the Experimental Psychology department of Cambridge University.

McGregor is a frequent creator of new work for La Scala, Milan, Paris Opera Ballet, Nederlands Dans Theatre, San Francisco Ballet, Stuttgart Ballet, New York City Ballet, Australian Ballet and English National Ballet; as well as movement director for theatre and film (including Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire). His upcoming productions include a new work for the Bolshoi Ballet (summer 2011) and a new full-length work for Wayne McGregor | Random Dance (November 2010, Sadler's Wells).



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9-May-2013
Boston Opera House
Boston Ballet's Chroma: A powerful boost for the city's spirit
Image credit: George Balanchine’s Serenade © The George Balanchine Trust. Photo by Gene SchiavoneWhen planning for the 2012/13 season, Artistic Director Mikko Nissinen could not have known how incredibly well-timed Chroma would seem for the Boston community. Following last month’s tragic events, the three selections comprising Chroma appear poised to lift the collective Bostonian spirit – it is a program that reflects on the past, reassuring the audience that traditions remain strong but that the future too is bright and brings with it a fresh new outlook.
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15-Nov-2012
Royal Opera House: Linbury Studio Theatre
A celebratory night of dance at the ROH with Wayne McGregor's FAR
Image credit: FAR / Random Dance © Ravi DeepresFAR stands for Flesh in the Age of Reason, the title of Roy Porter’s last, magisterial work (tagline: “How the Enlightenment transformed the way we see our bodies and souls”). Porter’s book is a history of the relationship between flesh and spirit in the 18th century.
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3-Nov-2012
Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
Top-notch contemporary ballet from The Royal Ballet's new trinity of modern choreographers
Image credit: Marianela Núñez and Ryoichi Hirano in Viscera © Andrej Uspenski, courtesy of ROHWith the triple bill Viscera / Infra / Fool’s Paradise, The Royal Ballet have confirmed the status of their new holy trinity of choreographers: Wayne McGregor, Christopher Wheeldon and Liam Scarlett. McGregor and Wheeldon already had official choreographic affiliations – as Resident Choreographer and Artistic Associate respectively – and it was announced on Friday that Scarlett will now be joining them, hanging up his dancing shoes with immediate effect to concentrate on choreography as The Royal Ballet’s first ever Artist in Residence.
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17-Jul-2012
Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
Titian 2012: A cultural olympiad of new works from the Royal Ballet
Image credit: Marianela Núñez and The Royal Ballet in Diana and Actaeon © Johan Persson, courtesy of ROHMetamorphosis: Titian 2012 invited artists from different disciplines, mainly the visual arts, dance and music, to respond to Titian's three magnifient paintings of the Diana and Actaeon myth. The results are displayed in an exhibition at the National Gallery (alongside Titian's originals), and in an triple bill of new ballets at the Royal Opera House.
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