WE ARE MOVEMENT

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Everything about us, including our intelligence, flows from and through our bodies. In this era of AI, Wayne McGregor offers a powerful reminder of the original general purpose technology: the human body itself. Our movement, he argues, matters. But this 'physical intelligence' isn'tjust about motion; it's a complex, cognitive system that underpins our creativity and connection. We Are Movement is a compelling manifesto that reveals why our most powerful software remains written in flesh and bone."
- Mustafa Sulyeman

Another tour de force from Wayne McGregor; this time it’s prose that moves. We Are Movement diagnoses and treats modern ennui by skilfully empowering us to reflect on what makes us human. It’s a masterful masterclass: every page turn prescient and practical. Wonderful! 
- Aleks Krotoski

Wayne McGregor's We Are Movement celebrates the profound and often overlooked concept of physical intelligence, arguing that our bodies hold a deep, intrinsic knowledge. In this book McGregor highlights how mastering body language, and intentionally holding the space around us, can unlock extraordinary new levels of creativity and self-understanding, fundamentally revolutionising the way we live and communicate. This is an insightful book for anyone seeking to experience life with greater fluency and presence. I strongly recommend it. 
- Carlos Acosta

This book will help you become more attuned to the most wonderful instrument that you have been blessed with: a body through which all your impressions of the world come and through which all of your gifts to that world flow.  This book invites us to be alive, alert, and aware; to be grounded in the body and its innate intelligence - a gift to our urban animal natures.
- Anthony Gormley

In “We Are Movement”, Wayne McGregor distils a lifetime’s enquiry into the potential of our physical being into a readable overview, presenting many fascinating ideas along the way.  The book is full of refreshing and valuable insights, and reads like an advanced user’s manual for the human body. For artists working in physical media and performance, “We Are Movement” will be an invaluable resource, but non-practitioners will find much to reflect on too.
- Max Richter

In Wayne’s McGregor's new book 'We Are Movement’ he brings together with such skill the connection between brain and movement and the relationship between body and mind. The chapter entitled ‘We Are Balance’ which helps understand the science on how to fall particularly resonated with me because falling in old age is such a universal problem. This will empower me to tap into all of the movement skills I developed as a dancer, to live a longer, stronger life. I first saw Wayne’s choreography in the early 90’s with his extraordinary dance company Random, it blew my mind. I knew I was looking at the future of dance, and I was right. This book is a revelation, and a must read for developing our ability to move, unlocking our physical intelligence, and the confidence that follows.  
- Arlene Phillips

Movement is fundamental to living life well, with passion, strength and happiness. As Wayne explains in his superb new book, physical intelligence allows us to make meaning of our everyday.  
- Darcey Bussell

Despite never having become a dancer professionally yet completing training in my early twenties, the self-awareness I have of my body has helped and informed everything I do, from work to walking to lifting to childbirth. Physical awareness is important to all of us to be healthy fully functioning humans whether we sit behind a desk all day or rotate from the ceilings on a rope! This is a revolutionary book which will improve the lives of all its readers … highly recommend.
- Paloma Faith

Wayne McGregor is not only a world-renowned choreographer, but a deep thinker about how the body shapes the mind with a unique ability to link his creative art with science and philosophy. His dazzling fluency across disciplines is on full display in his remarkable new book. We are Movement is not only an innovative meditation on the embodied, embedded mind, but a practical guide to thinking, and living, better. Best read while stretching.
- Anil Seth

This is a deeply humane book about how we move and touch the world, and I loved it.
- Edmund de Waal

Wayne McGregor’s whole life is devoted to analysing how movement can be controlled to create beautiful dancing shapes. From his unique perspective, he is now helping us non-dancers discover ourselves. Yoga, Alexander, Pilates – now McGregor challenges us to change our lives for the better.
- Ian McKellen

When I work with Wayne I gain a deeper understanding, not only of character, but of who I am, and who I can be as a performer, an artist, a human. He has shaped how I work in such a fundamental way. I am in awe of this man and his brain.
- Saoirse Ronan

Image: Wayne McGregor, WE ARE MOVEMENT, 2025, Bloomsbury Tonic