Wayne McGregor

Wayne McGregor, CBE (born 12 March 1970) is a multi award-winning British choreographer and director. He is the Artistic Director of Studio Wayne McGregor and Resident Choreographer of The Royal Ballet.[1] McGregor was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) 2011 for Services to Dance.[2]

Wayne McGregor
Wayne McGregor
Born12 March 1970 (1970-03-12) (age 50)
Stockport, England
OccupationChoreographer, director

Founded in 1993 (formerly known as Random Dance Company and Wayne McGregor | Random Dance), Studio Wayne McGregor encompasses McGregor's touring company of dancers, Company Wayne McGregor, which is also Resident Company at Sadler's Wells in London, and all of McGregor's creative work in dance, film, theatre, opera, fashion, technology, and TV. Studio Wayne McGregor also leads extensive learning and engagement projects nationally and internationally, artist development initiatives, and research and development work with science and technology partners. Significant large-scale engagement projects include 'Big Dance' in Trafalgar Square as part of the 2012 London Olympics, and 'LightLens' for Aarhus European City of Culture in 2017. Studio Wayne McGregor's building opened at Here East on Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in March 2017.

McGregor has made over 30 works for Company Wayne McGregor (celebrating its 25th anniversary in 2018), and over 15 works for The Royal Ballet. He also regularly creates new work for international companies including La Scala Theatre Ballet, Paris Opera Ballet, NDT1, Bayerisches Staatsballett Munich, American Ballet Theatre, San Francisco Ballet, Stuttgart Ballet, New York City Ballet, The Australian Ballet and the English National Ballet. McGregor also has works in the repertories of companies including Paris Opera Ballet, Bolshoi Ballet, Mariinsky Ballet, and Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater.

Notable works include Autobiography, Tree of Codes, Atomos, FAR, UNDANCE, Entity, (Company Wayne McGregor); Yugen, Multiverse, Obsidian Tear, Woolf Works, Raven Girl, Carbon Life, Tetractys: The Art of Fugue, Infra, Limen, Chroma, Qualia (The Royal Ballet); +/- Human (Company Wayne McGregor, The Royal Ballet, Random International); AfteRite (American Ballet Theatre); Sunyata (Bayerisches Staatsballett Munich); Alea Sands, Genus (Paris Opera Ballet); Kairos (Ballett Zurich); Borderlands (San Francisco Ballet); Outlier (New York City Ballet); Skindex, Renature (NDT1), Eden | Eden (Stuttgart Ballet), PreSentient (Rambert).

He has worked on numerous feature films, music videos, in fashion and TV, including Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Movement Director), The Legend of Tarzan (Movement Director), Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (Movement Coach), Sing (Choreographer), Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald (Choreographer), and Mary Queen of Scots (Choreographer and Movement Coach), Radiohead "Lotus Flower", Atoms for Peace "Ingenue", The Chemical Brothers featuring Beck "Wide Open" (Choreographer), ITV Brit Awards Paloma Faith performance 2015 and 2016 opening sequence, London and New York Fashion weeks with Gareth Pugh.

He has directed opera (Dido and Aeneas, Acis and Galatea for La Scala/Royal Opera), and choreographed for theatre (productions at ENO, Old Vic, National Theatre and Royal Court).

McGregor has collaborated with composers such as (Jlin, John Tavener, Mark-Anthony Turnage, Kaija Saariaho, Jon Hopkins, Max Richter, Joby Talbot/The White Stripes, Rokia Traore, Steve Reich, Jamie xx, Scanner), visual artists and designers (Lucy Carter, Edmund de Waal, Random International, Olafur Eliasson, Ben Cullen Williams, Mark Wallinger, Vicki Mortimer, Aitor Throup, Shirin Guild) filmmakers (Ravi Deepres, Ruth Hogben) and architects (We Not I, John Pawson), writers (Audrey Niffenegger, Uzma Hameed).

Designed by architects We Not I, Studio Wayne McGregor's creative arts space for making, contains three large dance studios, meeting and collaboration spaces. It also features artwork installations by Tatsuo Miyajima and Haroon Mirza on loan from the Lisson Gallery in London, original artworks by We Not I based on Josef Albers' 'Structural Constellations' and 'Homages to the Square', and Anni Albers' Study for 'Camino Real', with permission from The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation.

Biography

Wayne McGregor is internationally renowned for trailblazing innovations in performance that have radically redefined dance in the modern era. Driven by an insatiable curiosity about movement and its creative potentials, his experiments have led him into collaborative dialogue with an array of artistic forms, scientific disciplines, and technological interventions. The startling and multi-dimensional works resulting from these interactions have ensured McGregor's position at the cutting edge of contemporary arts for over twenty-five years.

McGregor was born in Stockport, England, in 1970. He studied dance at Bretton Hall College of the University of Leeds and at the José Limon School in New York. In 1992 he was appointed Choreographer-in-Residence at The Place, London, and in the same year he founded his own company, Random Dance (now Company Wayne McGregor). Company Wayne McGregor was invited to be the first Resident Company at the new Sadler's Wells in 2002.[3] Appointed in 2006, McGregor is the first Resident Choreographer of The Royal Ballet from a contemporary dance background. McGregor is Professor of Choreography at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance[4] and holds an Honorary Doctor of Science degree[5] from Plymouth University and an Honorary Doctor of Letters[6] from University of Leeds. He is part of the Circle of Cultural Fellows at King's College London.[7] In 2017 he was awarded an Honorary Fellowship of the British Science Association.[8] McGregor topped the list for dance in The Progress 1000 celebration of London's most influential people in 2018.[9] He and his partner, Antoine Vereecken, have restored a modernist house in southwest England. [10].

Credits

Awards
Year Association Category Nominated work Result
1996 Olivier Award Best Theatre Choreographer A Little Night Music (Wayne McGregor) Nominated
2000 Critics' Circle Award Best Modern Choreography Aeon (Company Wayne McGregor) Nominated
2001 South Bank Show Award Dance Aeon (Company Wayne McGregor) Nominated
2001 Critics' Circle Award Best Modern Choreography The Trilogy (Company Wayne McGregor) Nominated
2001 Critics' Circle Award Best Classical Choreography Symbiont(s) (The Royal Ballet) Nominated
2001 Time Out Award Outstanding Achievement in Dance Symbiont(s) (The Royal Ballet) Won
2002 Critics' Circle Award Best Modern Choreography Nemesis (Company Wayne McGregor) Nominated
2002 IMZ Dance Screen Award Chrysalis (Company Wayne McGregor) Won
2003 Time Out Award Outstanding Choreography PreSentient (Rambert Dance Company) Won
2004 Critics' Circle Award Outstanding Achievement in Dance 2Human (English National Ballet) Won
2005 South Bank Show Award Dance AtaXia (Company Wayne McGregor) Nominated
2005 Critics' Circle Award Best Modern Choreography AtaXia (Company Wayne McGregor) Nominated
2006 Critics' Circle Award Best Modern Choreography Amu (Company Wayne McGregor) Won
2007 South Bank Show Award Dance Royal Ballet triple bill featuring Chroma (The Royal Ballet) Won
2007 Critics' Circle Award Best Classical Choreography Chroma (The Royal Ballet) Won
2007 Olivier Award Best New Dance Production Chroma (The Royal Ballet) Won
2007 Olivier Award Outstanding Achievement in Dance Chroma (The Royal Ballet) Nominated
2008 Dance Week Festival, Zagreb Audience Award Entity (Company Wayne McGregor) Won
2008 Green Room Award Dance Ensemble Dyad 1929 (Australian Ballet) Nominated
2008 Green Room Award Betty Pounder Award for Choreography Dyad 1929 (Australian Ballet) Nominated
2008 Green Room Award Design Dyad 1929 (Australian Ballet) Nominated
2009 South Bank Show Award Dance Entity (Company Wayne McGregor) and Infra (The Royal Ballet) Won
2009 International Theatre Institute Excellence in International Dance Wayne McGregor Won
2009 Ballet Tanz Choreographer of the Year Wayne McGregor Won
2009 Prix Benois de la Danse Infra (The Royal Ballet) Won
2009 Movimentos Award Entity (Company Wayne McGregor) Won
2009 Critics' Circle Award Best Classical Choreography Infra (The Royal Ballet) Won
2009 Olivier Award New Dance Production Infra (The Royal Ballet) Nominated
2009 Olivier Award Outstanding Achievement in Dance Infra (The Royal Ballet) Nominated
2010 Helpmann Award Best Ballet or Dance Work Dyad 1929 (Australian Ballet) Nominated
2010 Helpmann Award Best Choreography Dyad 1929 (Australian Ballet) Nominated
2010 Globe de Cristal Opera or Dance Genus (Paris Opera Ballet) Nominated
2010 Globe de Cristal Musical Kirikou et Karaba (Maison de la Danse de Lyon) Nominated
2010 South Bank Show Award Dance Limen (The Royal Ballet) Nominated
2011 Dora Mavor Moore Award Outstanding Choreography Chroma (National Ballet of Canada) Nominated
2011 Dora Mavor Moore Award Outstanding Performance Chroma (National Ballet of Canada) Nominated
2011 Dora Mavor Moore Award Outstanding Production Chroma (National Ballet of Canada) Nominated
2011 Dora Mavor Moore Award Outstanding Sound Design / Composition Chroma (Joby Talbot) Won
2011 Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) For Services to Dance Wayne McGregor Won
2012 Hospital Club / Time Out 100 most influential, innovative and interesting people in the creative and media industries Wayne McGregor Won
2012 Golden Mask Award Best Dancer Chroma (Svetlana Lunkina, Bolshoi Ballet) Nominated
2012 Golden Mask Award Critics’ Prize Chroma (Bolshoi Ballet) Won
2012 Grammy Award Best Music Video Lotus Flower (Radiohead, choreography by Wayne McGregor) Nominated
2012 Dance on Camera, New York Wayne McGregor - Going Somewhere (director Catherine Maximoff) Won
2012 London Award for Art & Performance Dance Wayne McGregor Nominated
2012 Isadora Duncan Award Outstanding Achievement in Restaging / Revival / Reconstruction Chroma (Antoine Vereecken for restaging at San Francisco Ballet) Won
2012 Evening Standard 1000 Most Influential Londoners The Arts - Dance Wayne McGregor Won
2013 Evening Standard 1000 Most Influential Londoners The Arts - Dance Wayne McGregor Won
2013 Sky Arts South Bank Show Award Best Choreography Atomos (Company Wayne McGregor) Nominated
2013 Huading Award, China Global Best Dance Actor Wayne McGregor Nominated
2014 Taglioni European Ballet Award Best Production Raven Girl (The Royal Ballet) Nominated
2014 Clio Award Corporate Identity Mind and Movement (Magpie Studio) Nominated
2014 Creative Review Annual Feature Mind and Movement (Magpie Studio) Won
2014 Design Week Awards Print Communications Mind and Movement (Magpie Studio) Won
2014 The One Club Design Awards Bronze Pencil Mind and Movement (Magpie Studio) Won
2014 D&AD Awards Yellow Pencil for Integrated Graphics Mind and Movement (Magpie Studio) Won
2014 Sunday Times Makers of the 21st Century Wayne McGregor Won
2014 Dance Magazine Awards Wayne McGregor Won
2014 Helpmann Award Best Ballet or Dance Work Chroma (The Royal Ballet) Won
2014 Evening Standard Power 1000 (Most Influential Londoners) The Arts - Dance Wayne McGregor Won
2015 Positano Premia la Danza Leonide Massine Award: Show of the Year Woolf Works (The Royal Ballet) Won
2015 Sense Awards Arts Partnership of the Year Sense Creative Learning Project (Studio Wayne McGregor) Won
2015 Manchester Theatre Awards Robert Robson Award for Dance Tree of Codes (Wayne McGregor, Olafur Eliasson, Jamie xx for Company Wayne McGregor and Paris Opera Ballet) Nominated
2015 Manchester Theatre Awards Best Design Tree of Codes (Wayne McGregor, Olafur Eliasson, Jamie xx for Company Wayne McGregor and Paris Opera Ballet) Won
2016 Critics' Circle National Dance Award Best classical choreography Woolf Works (The Royal Ballet) Won
2016 UK Music Video Awards Best Dance Video Wide Open (The Chemical Brothers feat. Beck, choreography by Wayne McGregor) Won
2016 Olivier Awards Outstanding Achievement in Dance Woolf Works (Alessandra Ferri, The Royal Ballet) Won
2016 Olivier Awards Best New Dance Production Woolf Works (The Royal Ballet, Wayne McGregor) Won
2018 Helpmann Awards Best Female Dancer in a Ballet, Dance or Physical Theatre Production Infra (Vivienne Wong, The Australian Ballet) Nominated
2018 Helpmann Awards Best Ballet Woolf Works (The Royal Ballet, Queensland Performing Arts Centre) Nominated
2018 Helpmann Awards Best Original Score Woolf Works (The Royal Ballet, Max Richter) Nominated
2018 Helpmann Awards Best Choreography in a Ballet, Dance or Physical Theatre Production Woolf Works (The Royal Ballet, Wayne McGregor) Nominated
2018 Danza&Danza Awards Best Contemporary Dance Performance Autobiography (Company Wayne McGregor) Won
2018 Olivier Awards Best New Dance Production Tree of Codes (Wayne McGregor, Olafur Eliasson, Jamie xx for Company Wayne McGregor and Paris Opera Ballet at Sadler's Wells) Nominated
2018 D&AD Awards Yellow Pencil Spatial Design / Set & Stage Design Autobiography (Ben Cullen Williams, Studio Wayne McGregor) Won
2018 The Charles and Joan Gross Family Foundation Gross Family Prize Autobiography, Wayne McGregor and Jlin (Company Wayne McGregor) Won
2018 The Progress 1000, Evening Standard Most Influential Person in Dance (London) Wayne McGregor Won
2018 Critics' Circle National Dance Award Best classical choreography Yugen (The Royal Ballet, Wayne McGregor) Nominated

References
  1. "Wayne McGregor: Something in the way he moves". The Independent. Retrieved 31 October 2018.
  2. Jennings, Luke (2 January 2011). "Wayne McGregor CBE: the rock star of ballet steps up". the Guardian. Retrieved 31 October 2018.
  3. "Random Dance Company, Sadler's Wells, London". The Independent. Retrieved 31 October 2018.
  4. "Trinity Laban awards Professorship to Wayne McGregor". Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance website. 5 March 2014. Retrieved 20 January 2017.
  5. University of Plymouth (16 September 2013), Wayne McGregor Interview with Plymouth University, retrieved 31 October 2018
  6. Ashby, Richard. "Wayne McGregor". www.leeds.ac.uk. Retrieved 31 October 2018.
  7. "Circle of Cultural Fellows". King's College London website. Retrieved 20 January 2017.
  8. "BSA announces 2017 Honorary Fellows". British Science Association. Retrieved 31 October 2018.
  9. "The Progress 1000: London's most influential people 2018 - Performance: Dance". Evening Standard. Retrieved 1 November 2018.
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