MÚA SEN -
LOTUS FLOWER
Wayne McGregor CBE (born 1970) is a British choreographer of contemporary modern dance. His work
is known for its particular vocabulary of movement, for its integration of
dance with film and visual art, and for its incorporation of computer
technology and biological science. He is the Artistic Director of Studio Wayne McGregor formerly Wayne McGregor Random Dance, Resident Company at Sadler's
Wells Theatre in London and the Resident
Choreographer of The Royal Ballet, appointed 2006; He is Professor of Choreography at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance and holds an honorary doctor of science degree from
Plymouth University. He was the government’s first Youth Dance Champion,
appointed 2008. In 2004 McGregor was a Research Fellow in the Department of
Experimental Psychology, University
of Cambridge. His work
continues to explore the relationship between movement and brain science.
McGregor has created new work for international companies including La
Scala Theatre Ballet of Milan; Paris
Opera Ballet; Nederlands
Dans Theatre; San
Francisco Ballet; Stuttgart Ballet; New
York City Ballet; The
Australian Ballet; and English
National Ballet of London. He
served as Movement Director for Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire and choreographed music videos for Radiohead ("Lotus Flower") and Atoms for Peace ("Ingenue"). Woolf Works for The Royal
Ballet was his first full-length piece for the company, drawing on the writings
of Virginia Woolf with music by Max Richter. McGregor premiered Tree of
Codes, a new contemporary ballet created in collaboration with artist Olafur Eliasson and producer/composer Jamie xx at the Manchester International Festival (which commissioned the work) on Friday 3 July 2015.
Inspired by the Jonathan
Safran Foer artwork of the same name, Tree of
Codes featured dancers from his own company with soloists from the Paris Opera
Ballet.
