Driven by an insatiable fascination with movement and its creative possibilities, choreographer Wayne McGregor explores the creativity of dance through collaborations with science and technology. “Through the work that we do, we see the potential to use science to do some really interesting creative things,” he says.
For example, the latest autobiographyis a personal choreography that weaves McGregor's own DNA data and memoir, and artificial intelligence tools will be trained on hundreds of hours of his choreographic archive and asked to develop new movements to be performed by dancers from Company Wayne McGregor.
AI is, A corpse for HarnagyReconstructing Ballet Music Harunagy Based on a Polish folk tale, Karol Szymanowski's ballet is fused with recorded footage of McGregor's dancers, manipulated with algorithms that “bring an abstract nuance to the film,” according to artist Karen Williams, who is collaborating on the project. The footage is then projected onto a kinetic sculpture, which rotates and changes shape while an orchestra plays Szymanowski's ballet music, conducted by Edward Gardner.
and universeIn a narrative-driven piece recently performed at Sadler's Wells in London, McGregor uses dance to convey a nuanced experience of the dangers of climate change and the possibilities of finding solutions through science, technology and human ingenuity.
