ON THE OTHER EARTH

Wayne McGregor: ON THE OTHER EARTH
2025

DIRECTION and CHOREOGRAPHY
Wayne McGregor

nVis 360 3D EMBODIED VISUALIZATION CONCEPTS AND TECHNOLOGIES
Jeffrey Shaw, Sarah Kenderdine

CINEMATIC DESIGN 3D 360 ANIMATION and EDITING
Ravi Deepres, Theresa Baumgartner, Jeffrey Shaw
with Luke Unsworth, Paul Bourke, J.Him, Paul Nichola, Chris Parks, Carlos Serrano, Chris Stephens, and Nice Monster.tv

SOUND COMPOSITION by INVISIBLE MOUNTAIN (Powered by Bronze)
Foley Artist: Grégory Vincent

nVis 3D 360 TECHNOLOGIES RESEARCH and DEVELOPMENT HONG KONG BAPTIST UNIVERSITY
Jeffrey Shaw, Sarah Kenderdine
Vack Cheung, Davor Vincze, Ching Lee, Charisse So, Sum Wong, Alejandro Rodriguez, Paul Bethge, Leoson Cheong, Marlen Runz, Joseph Chan, Jeff Zhang, Victor Wong, Eman Tse

PRODUCTION
Rebecca Marshall, Svet Lapcheva, Tobias Tang

PERFORMED BY COMPANY WAYNE MCGREGOR AND HONG KONG BALLET

COMPANY WAYNE MCGREGOR
Rebecca Bassett-Graham, Naia Bautista, Kevin Beyer, Julia Costa, Salvatore De Simone, Chia-Yu Hsu, Jayla Jacobs, Hannah Joseph, Jasiah Marshall, Salomé Pressac and Mariano Zamora González

REHEARSAL DIRECTOR, COMPANY WAYNE MCGREGOR
Odette Hughes

HONG KONG BALLET
Luis Cabrera, Jeremy Chan, Albert Gordon, Vanessa Lai Nok Sze, Nana Sakai, Gouta Seki, Sun Jia, Wang Qingxin

ARTISTIC DIRECTOR, HONG KONG BALLET
Septime Webre

REHEARSAL DIRECTOR, HONG KONG BALLET
Yuh Egami

COSTUME DESIGN
Ilaria Martello

JEWELLERY DESIGN
Hannah Martin

Co-produced by
Hong Kong Baptist University; Hong Kong Ballet; Studio Wayne McGregor, London

Co-commissioned by
La Biennale di Venezia, Danza; Somerset House, London; Tai Kwun – Centre for Heritage and Arts, Hong Kong

Supported by
Innovation and Technology Commission, Hong Kong; City University of Hong Kong; EPFL, Switzerland; Hong Kong Baptist University Visualization Research Centre; Arts Council England; Bloomberg; Abderrahim Crickmay Charitable Settlement (UK); The Space (UK)

With additional support from
Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office in Brussels

Thank you to Marian Gaultney; Birmingham City University; Hong Kong Baptist University Motion Capture and Visualization Laboratory; The Peninsula Hotels – The Peninsula Hong Kong; Hong Kong Design Institute; The Roundhouse, London

PREMIERE DATE AND VENUE - 24th July 2025, La Biennale di Venezia, Danza 2025, Venice, Italy

On The Other Earth will be presented as part of the Infinite Body exhibition at Somerset House, and will be staged at Stone Nest in London.

Wayne McGregor: On The Other Earth is a new, post-cinematic choreographic installation inspired by McGregor’s latest live stage work DEEPSTARIA that refracts, evolves and reimagines the work’s conceptual DNA into a startlingly original new form of experience. 

Leveraging the interaction paradigms of Jeffrey Shaw’s pioneering media art practice, On The Other Earth takes place within Shaw’s radically immersive nVis installation space - the world’s first 360-degree stereoscopic LED cinematic screen, its 26-million-pixel panoramic 3D imagery experienced inside an enveloping cylindrical architecture of eight metres wide and four metres tall. 

In On The Other Earth, McGregor combines dance performance (from Company Wayne McGregor and Hong Kong Ballet), choreography, digital imaging, multi-modal sensing, AI, audience interactivity and spatialised sound redefining, once again how we think about movement, the body and performance. 

Groups of 20 are invited to explore On The Other Earth's unique visualisation and interactional behaviour capabilities in an intimate interplay, and thought-provoking, other-wordly encounter. 

Multiple Strobes and Flashing Lights are used in this performance

Image: Wayne McGregor On The Other Earth, Company Wayne McGregor 2025, Photo credit Ravi Deere's and Luke Unsworth