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Woolf Works

2015

The Royal Ballet

Inspired by the writings of Virginia Woolf, Woolf Works is Wayne McGregor’s first full-length production for The Royal Ballet.

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MOVEment

2015

AnOther Magazine with 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.

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The BRIT Awards 2015: Paloma Faith

2015

Paloma Faith and Company Wayne McGregor

Paloma Faith’s iconic rain-drenched performance at The BRIT Awards in 2015 features choreography by Wayne McGregor.

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Closer

2015

Donmar Warehouse

Director David Leveaux revived Patrick Marber’s critically acclaimed 1997 theatre production Closer in 2015 at the Donmar Warehouse, with Wayne McGregor as Movement Director. 

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Gareth Pugh S/S 15

2014

Gareth Pugh with Company Wayne McGregor

British fashion designer 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

Kairos, Wayne McGregor's first piece for Ballett Zürich, features set designs by British artist Idris Khan and is performed to Vivaldi's 'The Four Seasons', re-imagined by experimental composer Max Richter.

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Tetractys

2014

The Royal Ballet

Set to Johann Sebastian Bach's enigmatic final musical work ‘The Art of Fugue’, Tetractys brings together choreography by Wayne McGregor with striking set and costume 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Originally made for the gallery space of the Collezione Maramotti in Reggio Emilia, Italy, Scavenger is inspired by the brutalist and organicist architecture of the building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 Wayne 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 Wayne McGregor's first commission for the San Francisco Ballet, a fierce, driving study in movement. 

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Rain Room

2012

Random International and 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

Wayne 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 and 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

Wayne 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, Wayne 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 Wayne 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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