Wayne McGregor
Movement Direction
Wayne McGregor studied dance at University College Bretton Hall and the Jose Limon School in New York. In 1992 he founded Random Dance and was subsequently appointed choreographer in residence at The Place. Random Dance became Resident Company of Sadler’s Wells in July 2001.
Dance: Work for Random Dance includes: AtaXia (Sadler’s Wells), Nemesis Random (Sadlers Wells), Polar Sequences (National Tour), Alpha (National Tour), The digital trilogy The Millennarium, Sulphur 16 and Aeon.
Theatre: For The Royal National Theatre: Anthony and Cleopatra, A Little Night Music, Cleansed (Royal Court).
Ballet: Qualia (Royal Ballet); Nautilus (Stuttgart Ballet); 2Human (English National Ballet); Binocular (Adam Cooper Dance Company); Detritus and PreSentient (Rambert Dance Company); Phase Space (Gothenberg Ballet/Random); Symbiont(s) (Royal Ballet (ADI); Brainstate (Royal Ballet/Random); Ventolin for Antonia Francheschi (New York City Ballet); Fleur de Peux for Vivianna Durante of Royal Ballet; Equation (Pompidou Centre, Paris).
Opera: Salome (English National Opera); Manon (English Touring Opera); For Scottish Opera: Hansel and Gretel, The Marriage of Figaro, Orpheus et Eurydice.
Film: chrysalis, Horizone (BBC Dance For the Camera); Bent; Physical Dysfunctional - a BBC documentary about his work; Nemesis (BBC4).
Awards: 2003 Time Out Award for Outstanding Choreography; 2002 Dance Screen Award for chrysalis; 2002 nomination for the Critics’ Circle Award for Best Choreography for The Trilogy and Symbiont(s); Outstanding Achievement in Dance Award in Time Out’s Live Awards 2001; nominated for both the South Bank Show Award for Dance, and the Outstanding Contribution to Dance award for the Critics’ Circle Dance Section. In 1997 McGregor was awarded a Lisa Ullmann travel scholarship for research into dance and technology, and in 1998 he was given the Prix d’auteur du conseil général de Seine-Saint-Denis and L’Adami Prize for Performance. 1996 Olivier Award for Best Choreographer for A Little Night Music. Nominated by Angelin Preljocaj for the international ballet prize the Benoise De La Danse; nominated for the 11th Grand Prix International Video Danse for Physical Dysfunctional; recipient of the prestigious Arts Foundation Fellowship in Choreography in 1994. Wayne McGregor has represented Britain throughout the world in Bancs d’Essai Internationaux, SKITE project in Lisbon and the European Choreographic Forum.
Wayne McGregor is currently a Research Fellow with the Experimental Psychology Department, University of Cambridge, as part of a unique pilot programme jointly funded by the Arts Council England and the Arts and Humanities Research Board to promote science and art research
