Wayne McGregor
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Wayne McGregor Choreographer

Wayne McGregor studied dance at University College Bretton Hall and the Jose Limon School in New York. He is the founder and Artistic Director of Wayne McGregor | Random Dance, the resident company of Sadler's Wells Theatre, London, for which he has made over 30 works including Ossein, Amu, The Millennarium, Sulphur 16, Aeon, Nemesis, AtaXia, Entity and, most recently, Dyad 1909. Entity will be touring the UK this Spring.

He is the Resident Choreographer of The Royal Ballet.

Recent

Choreographed a new one act work Limen for The Royal Ballet and directed and choreographed Dido and Aeneas and Acis and Galatea for the Royal Opera House.

Ballet

Commissions include:

Dyad 1929 (Australian Ballet)
Skindex (NDT1)
Infra (Royal Ballet, Covent Garden)
Chroma (Royal Ballet, Covent Garden)
Engram (Royal Ballet, Covent Garden)
Qualia (Royal Ballet, Covent Garden)
Symbiont(s) (Royal Ballet, Covent Garden)
Eden|Eden (Stuttgart Ballet)
Nautilus (Stuttgart Ballet)
2Human (English National Ballet)
PreSentient (Rambert Dance Company)
detritus (Rambert Dance Company)

Opera

Dido and Aeneas (La Scala, Milan)
The Midsummer Marriage (Lyric Opera of Chicago)
La Boheme (Scottish Opera)
The Marriage of Figaro (Scottish Opera)
Hansel and Gretel (Scottish Opera)
Orpheus et Eurydice (Scottish Opera)
Salome (English National Opera)
Manon (English Touring Opera)
The Mikado (Grange Park Opera)
Rinaldo (Grange Park Opera)

Theatre

Breakfast at Tiffany's (West End)
Ring Round the Moon (West End)
Aladdin with Ian McKellen (London & Broadway)
The Woman in White (London & Broadway)
Cloaca (The Old Vic)
A Little Night Music (National Theatre)
Antony and Cleopatra (National Theatre)
Much Ado About Nothing (Peter Hall Company)
You Never Can Tell (Peter Hall Company)
Cleansed (Royal Court)

Film and Television

Harry Potter and The Goblet of Fire (Warner Bros)
DICE Life
Bent (Channel Four)
Chrysalis (Arte)
Horizone (BBC)
Nemesis (BBC)
Symbiont(s) (BBC)
Dance USA (BBC)
Physical Dysfunctional (BBC)
Recently
Wayne McGregor – Across The Threshold, A South Bank Show (ITV1)
In The Spirit Of Diaghilev, featuring Dyad 1909 (BBC4)
La Danse, by Fred Wiseman – on current cinematic release

Recent Awards Include

Recent awards include Prix de la Benois for INFRA, Royal Ballet (2009)
Choreographer of the Year from Ballet Tanz (2009)
South Bank Show and Movimentos awards for ENTITY, Wayne McGregor | Random Dance (2009)
Lawrence Olivier Award for Best New Dance Production for CHROMA, Royal Ballet (2007)
Two Time Out Awards for Outstanding Achievement in Dance (2001/2003)
IMZ Dance Screen Award (2002)
Lawrence Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement in Dance (2004)
South Bank Show Award for Dance 2007 (Royal Ballet Programme including CHROMA)

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