UniVerse: A Dark Crystal Odyssey - T819942428UniVerse: A Dark Crystal Odyssey is a moving and startling meditation on the climate crisis. Inspired by the Jim Henson cult classic The Dark Crystal about an ailing planet and a divided race, UniVerse: A Dark Crystal Odyssey depicts an earth riven by extremes and urgently in need of healing. Breathtaking digital environments and cutting-edge costumes create a stunning blend of fantasy and documentary. Powerful choreography and spoken word explore the inseparability of humanity and nature. Performed by the extraordinary dancers of Company Wayne McGregor, this is a modern eco-myth that asks how we can come together to be whole again.Director Wayne McGregor. Music Joel Cadbury. Design Ravi Deepres (film). Lighting Lucy Carter. Other Isaiah Hull (spoken word). DramaturgUzma Hameed. Costume Philip Delamore. Other Alex Box (face and body artist). | |
| 15 Mar 24 to 16 Mar 24 | Sadler's Wells Theatre, Inner London :: V224 listing details L01669818265 |
Autobiography (v95 and v96) - T01363346991Throughout his career, Wayne McGregor has made choreography that interrogates life through the experience of the body in its multifaceted relationship with technology. In 2017, McGregor turned his attention to the 'body as archive' with Autobiography (1.0), the first in a developing series of unique dance portraits inspired and determined by the sequencing of his own genetic code. Layering choreographic imprints over personal memoir and in dialogue with a specially created algorithm that hijacks McGregor's DNA data, Autobiography upends the traditional nature of dance-making as artificial intelligence and instinct converge in creative authorship. In the latest iterations of the work, AISOMA - a new AI tool developed with Google Arts and Culture utilizing machine-learning trained on 100s of hours of McGregor's choreographic archive - overwrites the configurations of its initial state to present fresh movement options to the performers, injecting unfamiliar and often startling content into the choreographic ecosystem. Life, writing itself anew. Now the 95th and 96th iterations of Autobiography come to Sadler's Wells in a captivating evening that is never quite the same as before.Producer Studio Wayne McGregor. Producer Sadle's Wells. Producer Les Theatres de la Ville de Luxembourg. Producer Edinburgh International Festival. Producer UK; Festspielhaus St Pölten Austria. Producer Carolina Performing Arts at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill USA. Producer Movimentos Festwochen der Autostadt in Wolfsburg Germany. | |
| 12 Mar 24 to 13 Mar 24 | Sadler's Wells Theatre, Inner London :: V224 listing details L01761193200 |
FAR - T02084669387Wayne McGregor's anatomy-defying choreography and ground-breaking approach across dance, science, film, music, visual art and technology has fuelled a string of truly unique works. FAR is no exception. Inspired by the controversial Age of Enlightenment, FAR mines an era that first placed | |
| 11 Feb 20 | artsdepot, Outer London :: V320 listing details L01624928892 |
Autobiography - T01881185685For 25 years, British choreographer and director Wayne McGregor has made choreography that interrogates life through the experience of the body. Now McGregor turns his attention to the body as archive, with a dance portrait illuminated by the sequencing of his own genome. In a continuous reimagining, Autobiography is constantly reinvented; the order of the dance pieces algorithmically-assembled from a collection of 23 choreographic volumes which unfold uniquely at each performance. McGregor is joined by an impressive set of collaborators: electronic musician and producer Jlin, visual artist Ben Cullen-Williams, lighting designer Lucy Carter, artist and designer Aitor Throup, dramaturg Uzma Hameed and software architect Nick Rothwell. | |
| 22 Oct 19 | Dundee Repertory Theatre, Dundee :: V596 listing details L1314736210 |
Autobiography - T01816000334For 25 years, Sadler's Wells Associate Artist Wayne McGregor has made choreography that interrogates life through the experience of the body. Now McGregor turns his attention to the body as archive, with a dance portrait illuminated by the sequencing of his own genome. In a continuous reimagining, Autobiography is reinvented at each performance, assembled from a collection of choreographic volumes which unfold uniquely every time. Wayne McGregor is joined by an impressive set of collaborators: electronic musician and producer Jlin, designer Ben Cullen-Williams, lighting designer Lucy Carter, artist and designer Aitor Throup and dramaturg Uzma Hameed.Design Ben Cullen Williams. Lighting Lucy Carter. Music Mlin (in partnership with UnSound). | |
| 26 Jul 18 to 28 Jul 18 | Sadler's Wells Theatre, Inner London :: V224 listing details L01858919659 |
Atomos - T1606939068Atomising bodies, movement, film, sound and light into miniature shards of intense sensation, Atomos is a work by cutting-edge contemporary choreographer Wayne McGregor. Nine incredible dancers perform McGregor's unique style ? sculptural, rigorous, jarring and hauntingly beautiful. He is accompanied by a team of sensational artists including longtime collaborators lighting designer Lucy Carter and filmmaker Ravi Deepres, along with costumes by the groundbreaking designers of wearable technologies, Studio XO. Neo-classical ambient composers A Winged Victory For The Sullen provide the soaring score. | |
| 1 Jun 18 to 2 Jun 18 | Alexandra Theatre, Birmingham :: V140 listing details L01333030866 |
| 9 Feb 18 | New Theatre Royal, Portsmouth :: V769 listing details L0336408441 |
Autobiography - T01180334095World Premiere. The visionary contemporary choreographer Wayne McGregor has led his company onto ever more radical and challenging innovations. With Sadler's Wells Resident Company, Company Wayne McGregor, he embarks on his boldest and most intimate collaboration to date, as he allows world-leading geneticists to sequence his entire genome. His personal biological archaeology laid bare will dramatically alter McGregor's viewpoint on his own life-story, tracing patterns back into the ancestral past of our species and illuminating what creates our individuality. Combining memoir, documentary and a re-processing of nature's code through an act of human imagination, this new work charts McGregor's adventure into his autobiography, and asks how to understand a life.Design Ben Cullen Williams. Lighting Lucy Carter. Music Mlin (in partnership with UnSound). | |
| 4 Oct 17 to 7 Oct 17 | Sadler's Wells Theatre, Inner London :: V224 listing details L01944908368 |
Entity - T1402690176Wayne McGregor's award?-winning Entity has thrilled audiences at sell-out shows around the world. Performed against a pounding soundscape by composer Jon Hopkins, Entity is a staggering blend of bodies, lights, technology and film, which confirms McGregor's place at the cutting edge of contemporary culture. Technically astonishing, emotionally uncompromising and hard-?hitting, McGregor's work defies categorisation. | |
| 14 Oct 16 to 15 Oct 16 | Laban Theatre, Outer London :: V342 listing details L0798099326 |
