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Orpheus and Eurydice
2019
Wayne McGregor makes his English National Opera directorial debut with this dance-infused account of Christoph Gluck’s 18thcentury opera masterpiece. An exploration of grief and loss in the human body, Company Wayne McGregor join in the first of the ENO's Orpheus series.
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Living Archive: An AI Performance Experiment
2019
In collaboration with Google’s Arts and Culture Lab, Studio Wayne McGregor has developed the Living Archive — an artificially intelligent choreographic tool, used in the creation of this elemental work.
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The Dante Project
2019
The Dante Project (Inferno) is the first act of Wayne’s new three-act ballet for The Royal Ballet, The Dante Project, which will premiere at the Royal Opera House in May 2020.
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Sweet Charity
2019
Donmar Warehouse
Wayne McGregor choreographed the new production of the Broadway classic directed by Josie Rourke.
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Mary Queen of Scots
2018
Josie Rourke directs Mary Queen of Scots, starring Saorise Ronan and Margot Robbie, with Wayne McGregor as Choreographer and Movement Coach.
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Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald
2018
Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald is the highly-anticipated sequel to the British-American fantasy drama film Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them. Screenplay by J. K. Rowling and directed by David Yates with Wayne McGregor as Movement Coach.
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Soma
2018
COS x Pitti Uomo
Wayne McGregor collaborates with COS on the launch of a menswear capsule collection Soma.
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Bach Forms
2018
Company Wayne McGregor with dancers from The Royal Ballet
Bach Forms is a reimagining of Tetractys - The Art of Fugue, which brings together J.S. Bach’s 18th-century work of great invention and McGregor’s pioneering 21st century choreography.
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AfteRite
2018
American Ballet Theatre
Wayne McGregor brings his unique choreographic style for the first time to the American Ballet Theatre with his entirely new take on The Rite of Spring.
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Sunyata
2018
Bayerisches Staatsballett
Wayne McGregor premieres new work Sunyata as part of an all-McGregor programme, with Kairos and Borderlands, for the first time for Bayerisches Staatsballett. The programme opens Ballet Festival Week 2018 in Munich.
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Yugen
2018
The Royal Ballet
Wayne McGregor and The Royal Ballet celebrate Leonard Bernstein’s centenary with the world premiere of Yugen.
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Winged Bull in the Elephant Case
2018
BBC Performance Live
Photographer Robin Friend and choreographer Wayne McGregor direct this immersive performance for the screen filmed at the National Gallery and underground in a Welsh slate mine. The programme for BBC Performance Live, Winged Bull in the Elephant Case, features new choreography by McGregor, Charlotte Edmonds, Botis Seva and Bonetics, and is performed by Company Wayne McGregor, Alessandra Ferri, Bonetics and Far From The Norm.
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In Residence: Haroon Mirza exhibition at Zabludowicz Collection
2017
Studio Wayne McGregor
Dance artists from Studio Wayne McGregor spent three days in residence at the Zabludowicz Collection exploring the crossover interest of long-term collaborators Haroon Mirza and Wayne McGregor.
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Autobiography Edits
2017
Company Wayne McGregor with Jlin
A compact and stripped back version of Autobiography, performed by dancers from Company Wayne McGregor with a live score by Jlin on stage. Performed without a set, Autobiography Edits underlines Unsound's role in bringing Jlin and Wayne McGregor together.
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Autobiography
2017
Company Wayne McGregor
In a continuous reimagining, McGregor's 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.
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Gareth Pugh S/S 18 London Fashion Week
2017
Company Wayne McGregor
‘This is not a show.’ Nick Knight and Gareth Pugh offer an exclusive visual insight into Pugh’s S/S 18 collection presented here as fashion film. In collaboration with philosophical artist Olivier de Sagazan, and with movement directed by Wayne McGregor, Pugh explores the extremities offered by the elements and the raw physicality of humanity.
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Atomos (film)
2017
Company Wayne McGregor
Following a highly successful national and international tour of the original stage production, McGregor has extended and translated his acclaimed work Atomos into a unique film experience, directed by McGregor and long-time collaborator Ravi Deepres.
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+/- Human
2017
Company Wayne McGregor, The Royal Ballet
A unique experience, +/- Human fuses an immersive installation with incredible live dance and music performances curated by Wayne McGregor at the Roundhouse.
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Multiverse
2016
The Royal Ballet
Premiering as part of an all-McGregor triple bill celebrating his 10th anniversary as Resident Choreographer of The Royal Ballet, Multiverse features a commissioned score from celebrated composer Steve Reich.
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Sing
2016
Animated film Sing reunites choreographer Wayne McGregor with director and writer Garth Jennings (Lotus Flower, Ingenue).
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Obsidian Tear
2016
The Royal Ballet
Obsidian Tear, McGregor's first piece created on an all-male cast, features music by Esa-Pekka Salonen and takes inspiration from the epic geological journey of the volcanic rock, obsidian.
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Witness
2016
Witness is a pas de deux choreographed and directed by Wayne McGregor, performed by Alessandra Ferri and Herman Cornejo.
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everyBODY
2016
Shot by photographer Norbert Schoerner and choreographed by Wayne McGregor, everyBODY is a Selfridges campaign presenting a powerful, celebratory formation of bodies in movement.
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The Brit Awards 2016: Opening Sequence
2016
Wayne McGregor directed the opening sequence of The Brits Awards 2016, featuring Company Wayne McGregor dancers and 60 students and graduates from The Brit School.
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Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
2016
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them is a British-American fantasy drama film, inspired by the book of the same name by J. K. Rowling. A prequel/spin-off of the Harry Potter film series, directed by David Yates with Wayne McGregor as Movement Coach.
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The Legend of Tarzan
2016
The Legend of Tarzan, released in 2016, is an American action adventure film drawn upon the fictional character created by Edgar Rice Burroughs. Wayne McGregor worked as the Movement Director for the Warner Bros. film.
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Boots No 7
2016
Wayne McGregor choreographed Alessandra Ferri in the Boots No 7 campaign. Ferri danced with a hologram of her younger self from when she first performed as principal dancer for The Royal Ballet in a production of Romeo and Juliet.
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Wide Open
2016
Wayne McGregor choreographed dancer Sonoya Mizuno in The Chemical Brothers music video, Wide Open.
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Alea Sands
2015
Paris Opera Ballet
Set to the score of Anthèmes II, composed by Pierre Boulez in 1997, and conceived in conjunction with visual artist Haroon Mirza, Alea Sands is Wayne McGregor's third piece for Paris Opera Ballet.
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Tree of Codes
2015
Company Wayne McGregor
Inspired by Jonathan Safran Foer's Tree of Codes, Wayne McGregor collaborated with visual artist Olafur Eliasson and Mercury Prize-winning producer and composer Jamie xx to create an evening length contemporary ballet, performed by Company Wayne McGregor with soloists from the Paris Opera Ballet.
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Woolf Works
2015
The Royal Ballet
Enmeshing themes from three of Virginia Woolf's landmark novels, with elements of her letters, essays and diaries, Woolf Works expresses the heart of an artistic life driven to discover a freer, uniquely modern realism, bringing to life Woolf's world of 'granite and rainbow' where human beings are at once both physical body and uncontained essence.
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MOVEment
2015
Company Wayne McGregor
Wayne McGregor collaborated with British fashion designer Gareth Pugh and director Ruth Hogben to create one of seven short films for AnOther Magazine's MOVEment, a series uniting fashion, dance and cinema. In a work of linear distortions and brittle textures, bodies are abstracted, enmeshed and transported into the unknown.
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The Brit Awards 2015: Paloma Faith performance
2015
Company Wayne McGregor
Paloma Faith’s iconic rain-drenched performance at the 2015 Brit Awards features choreography by Wayne McGregor.
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Gareth Pugh S/S 15 New York Fashion Week
2014
Company Wayne McGregor
Gareth Pugh's live immersive fashion experience choreographed by Wayne McGregor opened New York Fashion Week in 2014.
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Kairos
2014
Ballett Zürich
Wayne McGregor's first piece for Ballett Zürich, Kairos features set design by Idris Khan and is performed to Vivaldi's The Four Seasons, re-imagined by experimental composer Max Richter.
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Tetractys - The Art of Fugue
2014
The Royal Ballet
Set to orchestrated extracts of J.S. Bach's enigmatic final musical work,
The Art of Fugue, the geometry of the music inspired both McGregor's movement and designs by visual artist Tauba Auerbach.
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Atomos
2013
Company Wayne McGregor
Atomising bodies, movement, film, sound and light into miniature shards of intense sensation, Atomos is performed in McGregor's unique style - sculptural, rigorous, jarring and hauntingly beautiful - with lighting by Lucy Carter, film by Ravi Deepres, costumes by Studio XO, and music by A Winged Victory For The Sullen.
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Scavenger
2013
Company Wayne McGregor
Originally made for the gallery space of the Collezione Maramotti in Reggio Emilia, Italy, Scavenger is inspired by the brutalist and organicist architecture of the building that houses the art collection.
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Azimuth
2013
Company Wayne McGregor
Azimuth was devised to accompany Conrad Shawcross's Timepiece, the spectacular mechanical light sculpture suspended above the Roundhouse's epic Main Space during August 2013, a special event as part of Bloomberg summer at the Roundhouse.
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Raven Girl
2013
The Royal Ballet
Raven Girl by the award-winning author of The Time Traveler's Wife, Audrey Niffenegger, was adapted by McGregor into a dark modern fairytale, scored by film composer Gabriel Yared.
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Ingenue
2013
In 2013 Wayne McGregor choreographed the music video for Ingenue by Atoms for Peace, the experimental rock and electronic group featuring Radiohead's Thom Yorke and Flea from Red Hot Chili Peppers.
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Borderlands
2013
San Francisco Ballet
Inspired by the work of Josef Albers, Borderlands is McGregor's first commission for the San Francisco Ballet, a fierce, driving study in movement.
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Rain Room
2012
Company Wayne McGregor
Dancers from Company Wayne McGregor inhabit Random International's acclaimed Rain Room installation, performing continuously evolving interventions in the rain, with a score by contemporary composer Max Richter.
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Machina
2012
The Royal Ballet
Machina was one of three works for The Royal Ballet created in response to the Titan paintings Diana and Actaeon, The Death of Actaeon and Diana and Callisto.
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Sum
2012
The Royal Opera
Scored by contemporary experimental composer Max Richter and directed by Wayne McGregor, Sum was a chamber opera based on the cult book of short stories, Sum: Forty Tales of the Afterlives by American neuroscientist David Eagleman.
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Carbon Life
2012
The Royal Ballet
McGregor created choreography combining popular dance forms with classical ballet, while music producers Mark Ronson and Andrew Wyatt created the score and assembled a supergroup of musicians, including Boy George, Hero Fisher and Alison Mosshart, to perform live on stage for the 2012 premiere. Leading fashion designer Gareth Pugh reinvented traditional ballet dress to create bold, angular costumes.
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Future Self
2012
Random International / Company Wayne McGregor
Future Self is a performative light installation by Random International, with choreographic interventions by Wayne McGregor to music by Max Richter.
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Lotus Flower
2011
McGregor choreographed Thom Yorke in the music video to Radiohead's song Lotus Flower.
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UNDANCE
2011
Company Wayne McGregor
With a visual world created by Turner Prize-winning Mark Wallinger, UNDANCE was performed by the 10 dancers of Company Wayne McGregor and set to Mark-Anthony Turnage's original score. Inspiration came from American sculptor Richard Serra and the work of photographer Eadweard J. Muybridge.
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Live Fire Exercise
2011
The Royal Ballet
Inspired by the balletic beauty in John Gerrard's frozen images of soldiers engaged in military exercises and the instinctive physicality of their movement, McGregor's choreography is counterpointed by Michael Tippett's Fantasia Concertante on a Theme of Corelli. Gerrard's set comprises sculptural projections appearing both real and artificial, static and dynamic.
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L'Anatomie de la Sensation (Pour Francis Bacon)
2011
Paris Opera Ballet
L'Anatomie de la Sensation (Pour Francis Bacon) was inspired by the paintings of Francis Bacon, an artist fascinated with the human condition and the body's physicality. Mark-Anthony Turnage's 1994 jazz composition Blood on the Floor provides the score.
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FAR
2010
Company Wayne McGregor
Inspired by the controversial Age of Enlightenment, FAR mines an era that first placed 'a body in question'. Ten incredible dancers confront the distortions, sensuality and feeling of the 18th Century's searing contemporary sensibility to a haunting score by the critically-acclaimed composer Ben Frost.
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Outlier
2010
New York City Ballet
Created for New York City Ballet's Architecture of Dance Festival, Outlier was McGregor's first original work for an American dance company. Set to composer Thomas Adès' 2005 violin concerto Concentric Paths, Outlier was informed by the minimalist notions of simplicity and colour theory.
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Yantra
2010
Stuttgart Ballet
Yantra was McGregor's third piece for Stuttgart Ballet, set to Esa-Pekka Salonen's Foreign Bodies, with set and costume design by Vicki Mortimer.
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Limen
2009
The Royal Ballet
In Limen, McGregor explored the idea of liminality - thresholds of darkness and light, presence and absence, life and death. It was set to Finnish composer Kaija Saariahoâ's cello concerto, centered around a solar eclipse, and was accompanied by a light installation by Tatsuo Miyajima.
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Dyad 1909
2009
Company Wayne McGregor
In 2009, McGregor created a diptych of works to celebrate the centenary of the magnificent Ballets Russes - Dyad 1909 in London and Dyad 1929 in Melbourne. For Dyad 1909 Ólafur Arnalds provides the score, with design by Jane and Louise Wilson, lighting by Lucy Carter, costume design by Moritz Junge and make-up and mask design by Kabuki.
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Dyad 1929
2009
The Australian Ballet
In 2009, McGregor created a diptych of works to celebrate the centenary of the magnificent Ballets Russes - Dyad 1909 in London and Dyad 1929 in Melbourne. Dyad 1929 was performed to Steve Reich's Double Sextet, with stage concept by McGregor and Lucy Carter, and costumes by Moritz Junge.
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Infra
2008
The Royal Ballet
Named after the Latin word meaning 'below', Infra presented a portrait of life beneath the surface of the city, with set design by Julian Opie and music by Max Richter.
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Renature
2008
Nederlands Dans Theater (NDT1)
Wayne McGregor's creates with NDT1 a savagely un-natural piece that in some ways denatures the body itself and frustrates the conventions of dance.
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Entity
2008
Company Wayne McGregor
Award-winning Entity is a blend of bodies, lights, technology and film, with a soundscape created by Coldplay and Massive Attack collaborator Jon Hopkins and award-winning composer Joby Talbot.
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Dido and Aeneas
2006
Teatro alla Scala
McGregor's production of Purcell's interpretation of the classical tale Dido and Aeneas.
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Nimbus
2007
Nimbus was McGregor's first work as Resident Choreographer for The Royal Ballet following his appointment in 2006.
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Genus
2007
Paris Opera Ballet
Genus, a ballet for 23 dancers, was inspired by Charles Darwin's book On the Origin of Species, published in 1859.
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Kirikou et Karaba
2007
The musical, Kirikou and Karaba, choreographed and directed by Wayne McGregor was created at the Maison de la Danse de Lyon, and shown at the Casino de Paris.
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[memeri]
2007
D.A.N.C.E.
In 2007, Wayne McGregor choreographed [memeri] for the Dance Apprentice Network Across Europe (D.A.N.C.E).
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Chroma
2006
The Royal Ballet
Chroma explores the drama of the human body and its ability to communicate extremes of thought and emotion.
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Erazor
2006
Company Wayne McGregor
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Ossein
2006
Company Wayne McGregor
A dance solo choreographed by Wayne McGregor, by invitation of the Antwerp Music Theatre.
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Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
2005
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire is a 2005 Warner Bros. film directed by Mike Newell. It is based on the novel of the same name by J. K. Rowling. The film, which is the fourth instalment in the Harry Potter film series, was written by Steve Kloves, produced by David Heyman with Wayne McGregor as Movement Director.
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Amu
2005
Company Wayne McGregor
In Amu, McGregor questions both the physical functions and symbolic resonances of the human heart, working in collaboration with heart-imaging specialists Dr Philip Kilner and Dr Sonya Babu-Narayan, and with original music composed by Sir John Tavener.
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Tremor
2005
Channel Four
Set in a decommissioned military Hush House, Tremor is a visceral exploration of sound, space and physical movement. A single dancers’ movements are dictated by the low bass and high frequency rhythms of the music, becoming increasingly erratic as the soundtrack evolves into a violent cacophony. As the music and environment grows progressively more intense, the body of the dancer struggles to maintain control.
Engram
2005
The Royal Ballet
A duet created for the celebration of Frederick Ashton, 'Inspired by Ashton', set to music by Godspeed You! Black Emperor and Ryoji Ikeda.
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EDEN | EDEN
2005
Stuttgart Ballet
EDEN | EDEN addresses the role of technology in the ethics surrounding the human body, set to Dolly, Steve Reich's spoken libretto/musical score for the third act of his filmic opera, Three Tales.
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AtaXia
2004
Company Wayne McGregor
AtaXia is a dynamic work involving neuroscience, psychology, virtual design, and spatial architecture, redrawing the traditional hierarchies of dance to generate a fresh and radical look at human physicality and explore a dislocating loss of control.
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Dice Life
2004
England Lane Production Company
Inspired by cult author Luke Rhinehart’s classic novel The Dice Man, Dice Life is a television short, originally broadcast on Channel 4 in 2004, comprising of six dance episodes that dramatize the philosophical journey of a man experiencing a series of life-defining moments, from birth to re-birth, as dictated by the throw of a dice by The Dice Man.
Qualia
2003
The Royal Ballet
Qualia, a duet, marked Wayne McGregor's choreographic debut on The Royal Opera House stage in 2003.
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Polar Sequences
2003
Company Wayne McGregor
Polar Sequences is set to music by Henry Purcell, Merzbow, Amon Tobin, Rioji Ikeda and Marilyn Manson in a sound collage created by Scanner. Costumes designed by Ursula Bombshell and lighting by Lucy Carter.
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chrysalis
2002
Company Wayne McGregor
chrysalis is a film choreographed and performed by Wayne McGregor with dancers from Company Wayne McGregor for Arte TV.
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2Human
2003
English National Ballet
2Human is a duet set to Bach's Partita No.2 in D minor for solo violin, inspired by illustrated descriptions of the human body.
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Nemesis
2002
Company Wayne McGregor
The result of collaborations with artists working at the height of their fields, Nemesis explores the relationship between body, screen and machine.
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PreSentient
2002
Rambert
The twelve Rambert dancers perform to Steve Reich's Triple Quartet, with lighting by Lucy Carter and costume design by Ursula Bombshell.
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detritus
2001
Rambert
detritus is Wayne's first work for Rambert, and one of four works performed to celebrate the company’s 75th anniversary season.
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brainstate
2001
Company Wayne McGregor, The Royal Ballet
brainstate is Wayne McGregor's first collaboration between Company Wayne McGregor and dancers from The Royal Ballet.
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Symbiont(s)
2000
The Royal Ballet
Commissioned by the Artists' Development Initiative, Symbiont(s) came from bringing in choreographers, including Wayne McGregor, from outside The Royal Ballet to create work on the company.
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Aeon
2000
Company Wayne McGregor
Aeon is the third instalment of Wayne McGregor's 'The Trilogy', following The Millenarium and Sulphur16.
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Sulphur 16
1998
Company Wayne McGregor
The second instalment of 'The Trilogy', in which Wayne McGregor and the dancers attempt to redefine basic choreographic principles of time, space and the presence of the body.
The Millennarium
1997
Company Wayne McGregor
The Millennarium is the first instalment of 'The Trilogy', a series of works which fuse McGregor’s idiosyncratic movement with new technology.
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Xeno 1 2 3
1993
Company Wayne McGregor
Xeno 1 2 3 premiered at The Place in London on 6 January 1993 as part of 'Resolution!', McGregor's first work for Company Wayne McGregor.
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