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  • ​Biennale Danza 2024 announcement

    14.03.2024

    Wayne McGregor, in his role as Director of the Dance Department of La Biennale di Venezia, will announce the programme for the Biennale Danza 2024 on Tuesday 26 March.

    ​Biennale Danza 2024 announcement

    14.03.2024

    Wayne McGregor, in his role as Director of the Dance Department of La Biennale di Venezia, will announce the programme for the Biennale Danza 2024 on Tuesday 26 March.

    The announcement will be part of La Biennale di Venezia’s press conference announcing the 2024 programmes for Theatre, Music, Dance and the Biennale Colleges.

    The event will be live-streamed at 12:30pm CET on www.labiennale.org and La Biennale di Venezia’s FacebookTwitter and YouTube channel. 


    Image: Courtesy La Biennale di Venezia/photo by Andrea Avezzù.

  • BIENNALE COLLEGE DANZA APPLICATIONS NOW OPEN

    20.02.2024

    Until Friday 8 March, dancers and choreographers can apply for the Biennale College Danza 2024 international calls and undertake an intensive learning and study programme under the mentorship of Wayne McGregor.

    BIENNALE COLLEGE DANZA APPLICATIONS NOW OPEN

    20.02.2024

    Applications for the Biennale College Danza 2024 are now open.

    Until Friday 8 March, dancers and choreographers can apply for the Biennale College Danza international calls and undertake an intensive learning and study programme under the mentorship of Wayne McGregor.

    Between classes and workshops, the theorical and practical experiences of the Biennale College Danza will take place over a three-month residency in Venice and will conclude with the presentation of:
    -A new creation by Wayne McGregor conceived for the space of the Sala Grande in the Palazzo del Cinema on Venice’s Lido
    -A new experimental creation by Cristina Caprioli
    -Two original new creations conceived by the selected choreographers

    Click here for further information and to submit your application.


    Image: Wayne McGregor’s Biennale Danza Festival, Venice (2021), Photographer Indigo Lewin.

  • COMPANY WAYNE McGREGOR CREATIVE LAB

    15.02.2024

    Join Company Wayne McGregor dancers on Saturday 22 April for a one-day lab exploring Wayne McGregor’s repertoire and creative processes.

    COMPANY WAYNE McGREGOR CREATIVE LAB

    15.02.2024

    Join Company Wayne McGregor dancers on Saturday 22 April for a one-day lab exploring Wayne McGregor’s repertoire and creative processes.

    The day will begin with an energetic and fast-paced contemporary technique class, followed by phrases from Company Wayne McGregor’s repertoire, with the remainder of the day focusing on Wayne McGregor’s creative tools, practices, and exercises.

    The lab will offer an exclusive opportunity to experience and explore our bespoke AISOMA technology, centred on Wayne McGregor’s work Living Archive: An AI Performance Experiment which was created using an A.I choreographic tool developed in collaboration with Google Arts and Culture Lab.

    Participants will be introduced to the AI tool and use it to develop their own material and gain insights into McGregor’s creative practice. They will also have the opportunity to learn excerpts of Company Wayne McGregor’s repertoire.

    The lab is suitable for professional dancers, graduates and students enrolled in professional dance training who are 18 and over.

    BOOKING
    The lab costs £100.

    Please click here  to book your place via Eventbrite.


    Image: Company Wayne McGregor’s Creative Lab, Studio Wayne McGregor, London (2023), Photographer Jack Thomson.

  • BOOKING FOR OPEN COMPANY CLASSES NOW OPEN

    13.02.2024

    Join Company Wayne McGregor dancers for their morning classes, taught by top dance professionals at Studio Wayne McGregor in East London.

    BOOKING FOR OPEN COMPANY CLASSES NOW OPEN

    13.02.2024

    Join Company Wayne McGregor dancers for their morning classes, taught by top dance professionals at Studio Wayne McGregor in East London.

    Sessions are fast paced, rigorous and highly technical, and open to dance professionals, dance graduates and students in full time professional training.

    We currently have weekday morning classes available to book on select dates from Wednesday 6 March to Friday 10 May 2024, including ballet and contemporary classes.

    BOOKING
    Classes are £8 each, and are offered on a first come, first served basis.

    To book a class and for further information about the classes and teachers leading the session, please click here.

    If you have any questions or require further information, please contact studioteam@waynemcgregor.com.


    Image: Wayne McGregor's UniVerse: A Dark Crystal Odyssey in rehearsal, Company Wayne McGregor (Jasiah Marshall), Studio Wayne McGregor, London (2023), Photographer Ravi Deepres.

  • ANNOUNCING RESIDENT 6: APPLICATIONS NOW OPEN

    07.12.2023

    Creative residency programme at Studio Wayne McGregor for emerging artists pushing the boundaries of dance, movement and physical intelligence.

    ANNOUNCING RESIDENT 6: APPLICATIONS NOW OPEN

    07.12.2023

    Creative residency programme at Studio Wayne McGregor for emerging artists pushing the boundaries of dance, movement and physical intelligence.

    RESIDENT 6 will invite 6 artists to make Studio Wayne McGregor their home for a year. Connected by a commitment to creative rigour rooted in physical practice, these 6 artists will have access to our full range of spaces for making, researching, experimenting, collaborating and sharing.

    Each artist will receive:
    - Access to world-class studios and workspaces 
    - £5,000 of development funding
    - Personal mentorship from Wayne McGregor
    - Access to Studio Wayne McGregor’s global network of creative people, places and institutions
    And much more...

    We are looking for emerging artists who seek to push the boundaries of physical intelligence from any artform/background – including but not limited to: choreographers, creative technologists, visual artists, film makers, spoken word artists.

    Thanks to generous support from the Jerwood Developing Arts Fund and Here East, RESIDENT 6 is free of charge to participants.

    Applications are now open for the 2024 cohort. Find out more information here and apply by 7 January 2024.

  • Studio Wayne McGregor announces its 2023/24 programme

    31.10.2023

    Studio Wayne McGregor announces a rich, dynamic, and diverse season for 2023/2024, with three trailblazing world premieres, two European premieres and five revivals.

    Studio Wayne McGregor announces its 2023/24 programme

    31.10.2023

    Studio Wayne McGregor announces a rich, dynamic, and diverse season for 2023/2024, with three trailblazing world premieres, two European premieres and five revivals.

    Opera and ballet join forces for the world premiere ofJocasta’s Line: Oedipus Rex (Igor Stravinsky)/Antigone (Samy Moussa),created on the Dutch National Opera and the Dutch National Ballet, staged at the Dutch National Opera and Ballet, Amsterdam (March 2024). The ill-fated family line of the Theban queen Jocasta resonates between two works brought together under the direction and choreography of Wayne McGregor: Stravinsky's Oedipus Rex (1927) and Samy Moussa's new composition Antigone (2023).  

    The anticipated world premiere of Deepstaria, a Studio Wayne McGregor original performed by Company Wayne McGregor, will headline Montpellier Danse festival. It will simultaneously launch into the metaverse, using the latest AI technology, to exist across multiple dimensions as a shape shifting work in constant parallel communication with itself.

    Wayne McGregor and Ben Cullen Williams join forces with conductor Edward Gardner to reinvent Szymanowski’s ballet for concert halls with A Body for Harnasie.Wayne McGregor responds by using digitally enhanced choreographic storytelling to open a portal to a new expressive world, with innovative technological interventions by Ben Cullen Williams. Conceived and produced by Studio Wayne McGregor, A Body for Harnasie is a co-production between The Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra (NOSPR) and the London Philharmonic Orchestra, and will make its world premiere at NOSPR, Katowice, Poland (February 2024), followed by the UK premiere at Southbank's Royal Festival Hall, London (March 2024).

    McGregor's Olivier Award-winning Woolf Works, inspired by the writings of modernist 20th century author Virginia Woolf, makes its North American premiere on the American Ballet Theatre at Segerstrom Center for the Arts, California, US (April 2024).

    McGregor's Autobiography- the evocative dance portrait inspired by the sequencing of Wayne McGregor’s genetic code and performed by the beguiling dancers of Company Wayne McGregor, will begin its 23/24 season European tour with Autobiography (v 88.0), the 88th iteration of the work, at Theatre-Senart, Lieusaint, France in November 2023. Autobiography reimagines and remakes itself anew for every performance, making each and every staging of the production a recurring world premiere with infinite possibilities. Meanwhile, McGregor’s Dyad 1929 enters the Croatian National Ballet’s repertoire for its European premiere at Croatian National Theatre, Zagreb, Croatia (March 2024).

    Company Wayne McGregor will embark upon a European tour of UniVerse: A Dark Crystal Odyssey (February 2024) following the rapturous critical acclaim and sell-out run of its world premiere at The Royal Opera House in May 2023.

    Company Wayne McGregor will then return to Sadler’s Wells with Autobiography, now in versions 95.0 and version 96.0 (March 2024) and in dialogue with Aisoma (a new AI tool developed with Google Arts and Culture utilising machine-learning trained on hundreds of hours of McGregor’s choreographic archive), along with UniVerse: A Dark Crystal Odyssey (March 2024). 

    Further revivals include Infra, which was created in collaboration with British artist Julian Opie, Max
    Richter and Lucy Carter as a response to the July 2005 London bombings, and makes its debut with Ballet Zürich (December 2023). The Dante Project makes its debut with the Royal Danish Ballet (November 2023) following the rapturous critical acclaim of its world premiere at The Royal Opera House in 2021, where it was performed by The Royal Ballet, and its European premiere at The Palais Garnier in 2023, where it was performed by the Paris Opera Ballet. The Dante Project will then return to The Royal Opera House to be performed by The Royal Ballet (November 2023).Chroma, which explores the drama of the human body and its ability to communicate extremes of thought and emotion, makes its Memphis debut with Collage Dance Collective (April 2024).

    Wayne McGregor, who was named Director of Venice Biennale Danza, in 2021, will announce his programme for the 18th Annual Festival of Contemporary Dance in April 2024. McGregor recently concluded his third year as Director with Altered States, a radical and genre-defying fifteen day programme of artists, performances and world premieres that explored the limitless possibilities of artistic collaboration and creation.

    Finally,ABBA Voyage, the revolutionary concert that launched the Swedish pop sensations back onto the stage in May 2022 for an outstanding avatar performance choreographed by Wayne McGregor, continues to book throughout 2024.


    Image: Wayne McGregor's Deepstaria.

  • Company Wayne McGregor x Katie Grand for Moschino

    25.09.2023

    Company Wayne McGregor BACKSTAGE at Moschino '40 Years of Love' anniversary show with Katie Grand

    Company Wayne McGregor x Katie Grand for Moschino

    25.09.2023

    LOUD LUXURY! When Moschino invited superstar-super-stylist Katie Grand to create a capsule collection for their 40th anniversary runway show '40 Years of Love' during  Milan Fashion Week she asked Wayne McGregor to choreograph his trailblazing company of dancers, COMPANY WAYNE MCGREGOR,  for the final act.

    Image: Backstage at Vogue Runway, for Moschino Spring 2024 Ready-to-Wear Photographed by Jason Lloyd Evans

  • Wayne awarded Honorary Doctorate from the Royal College of Art

    14.09.2023

    Wayne McGregor CBE received an Honorary Doctorate alongside Edward Enninful OBE, Editor-in-Chief, British Vogue & European Editorial Director, Vogue, from the Chancellor of the Royal College of Art, Sir Jony Ive, in a ceremony at the Royal Festival Hall on London's Southbank.

    Wayne awarded Honorary Doctorate from the Royal College of Art

    14.09.2023

    Wayne McGregor said: "The RCA - a world-leading, industry-defining institution (in the best city in the world) has nurtured an inspirational alumni, changing our creative, ethical, and political landscape daily. I feel extremely fortunate to be honoured today in their company. Many of my incredible collaborators have been RCA schooled: provocative, individual and divergent thinkers, always taking the unconventional path to rich new seams of the possible."

    Image: Edward Enninful and Wayne McGregor Photographed by Shaun James Cox

  • Inner Worlds: Wayne McGregor

    09.06.2023

    In collaboration with Art Basel and Nowness, Wayne McGregor opens his East London studio, inviting conversations around space, creativity, and the human form in the latest episode of Inner Worlds.

    Inner Worlds: Wayne McGregor

    09.06.2023

    In collaboration with Art Basel and Nowness, Wayne McGregor opens his East London studio, inviting conversations around space, creativity, and the human form in the latest episode of Inner Worlds.

    Intentionally stark, yet intelligently segmented, the rooms of Studio Wayne McGregor serve as empty canvases, leaving space for the imagination, and enabling the dancers who occupy them to create their own worlds from within its walls⁠.

    Coinciding with the stage premiere at the Linbury Theatre in London, the film captures rehearsals for UniVerse: A Dark Crystal Odyssey, a new McGregor production created for Company Wayne McGregor.

    Watch the full episode here.