Wayne McGregor

Wayne McGregor CBE (born 1970 in Stockport ) is an English choreographer.

Life and work

McGregor discovered at the age of 8 years, his passion for dance, inspired by films such as Saturday Night Fever and Grease. Modern and classical ballet were initially outside of his imagination; He began with disco and Latin American dances.

McGregor studied at Bretton Hall College, reaching there both in choreography as well as in semiotics a degree. He then trained at the school of Jose Limon continued in New York. In 1992 he returned to England and founded his own company, Random Dance.

As a dancer, the lanky McGregor soon became known by its extreme mobility and his unorthodox, surprising, sometimes extremely fast and yet precise movements. These skills, the athleticism and the element of surprise, he also brings in the performances of his company expressed. In his productions he tries to express themes of the human sciences, from genetics, robotics and cognitive science in dance.

With the help of a satellite transmission in 1997, he staged a simultaneous exhibition of two dance groups in Berlin and in Canada. In 2000 he transferred his production Trilogy over the Internet. Theme of his production Ataxia of 2004, incoordination. In order to let his dancers this experience realistic, he put them on prismatic glasses. For Amu, its production from 2005, he sent her to a cardiologist to have each of their hearts. The knowledge of one's inner life, his thesis would also affect the outer expression of a person and their dance style.

For published in 2005 film Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, he created the choreography. His production of Chroma won the 2006 Olivier and Critics' Circle Award.

Since 2006, McGregor Resident Choreographer of the Royal Ballet in London. He is an innovator in residence at the University of California at San Diego. Random Dance was appointed Resident Company at the renowned Dance Theatre Sadler 's Wells in London.

With its production entity he was with Random Dance in the spring and summer of 2008 in Europe on tour, touring in various locations in Germany, including the pacemaker Festival in Aachen. Entity deals with the duality of intention and instinct in the movement and with issues of artificial intelligence. In 2009 he won with this piece Movimentos Dance Prize of the City of Wolfsburg in the category of Best Choreography.

In 2009 he was elected by qualified Jour lists for the magazine ballet- dancing to the best choreographers. In the same year his productions Dyad created in 1929 for the Australian Ballet and Dyad 1909 Random Dance and Lymen for the Royal Ballet.

In 2010 he created outlier for the New York City Ballet. In July 2010, its production Yantra was premiered by the Stuttgart Ballet.

For his services to dance, he became the beginning of 2011, honored as a Commander of the Order of the British Empire. In the same year, he choreographed the music video Lotus Flower of the band Radiohead. In May 2011, his choreography Live Fire Exercise was performed at the Royal Ballet in London.

In July 2012, he created the big dance performance Big Dance Trafalgar Square with 1,000 performers as part of the London Festival. 2013 he choreographed Atomos for Random Dance, Raven Girl for the Royal Ballet and Borderlands for the San Francisco Ballet.