Wayne McGregor Premiere |
Britain’s bold contemporary voice, Wayne McGregor is known for his groundbreaking collaborations across the visual arts and sciences. At the young age of 22, he founded Wayne McGregor | Random Dance, the resident company of Sadler’s Wells Theater. As The Royal Ballet’s first Resident Choreographer in 16 years, McGregor made waves as the first to come from the world of contemporary dance. His ballet will be set to the North American premiere of Thomas Adès’ violin concerto Concentric Paths, and marks the first time that McGregor will create an original piece for an American company.
May 14 (World Premiere), 15, 18, 20, 21
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Score by Thomas Adès
Set concept by Wayne McGregor and Lucy Carter
Costume design by Moritz Junge
Lighting design by Lucy Carter
Wayne McGregor (b. Stockport, UK, 1970), director and choreographer, studied dance at University College Bretton Hall and the José Limón School in New York. He is the founder and Artistic Director of Wayne McGregor | Random Dance, 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. He is the Resident Choreographer of The Royal Ballet.
Recently, McGregor 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.
His ballet commissions include: Infra, Chroma, Nimbus, Engram, Qualia, Symbiont(s) (The Royal Ballet, Covent Garden); Dyad 1929 (Australian Ballet); Genus (Paris Opera Ballet); Skindex, Re:Nature (NDT1); Eden | Eden, Nautilus (Stuttgart Ballet); 2Human (English National Ballet); PreSentient, detritus (Rambert Dance Company).
Opera: Dido and Aeneas (La Scala, Milan); The Midsummer Marriage (Lyric Opera of Chicago); La Boheme, The Marriage of Figaro, Hansel and Gretel, Orpheus et Eurydice (Scottish Opera); Salome (English National Opera); Manon (English Touring Opera); The Mikado, Rinaldo (Grange Park Opera).
Theater: Kirikou et Karaba (Casino de Paris); Breakfast at Tiffany’s, Ring Round the Moon (West End); Aladdin with Ian McKellen; The Woman in White (London & Broadway); Cloaca (The Old Vic); A Little Night Music, Antony and Cleopatra (National Theatre); Much Ado About Nothing, 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, Entity (Arte); Horizone, Nemesis, Symbiont(s), Dance USA, Infra, and 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 Prix de la Benois for Infra, The 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, The 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 (The Royal Ballet program including Chroma).
McGregor’s commissions for 2010–2011 include work for the Stuttgart Ballet, Paris Opera Ballet, The Royal Ballet, Bolshoi Ballet, and Wayne McGregor | Random Dance.
Thomas Adès (b. 1971) studied piano at the Guildhall School of Music and read music at King’s College, Cambridge. Between 1993 and 1995 he was Composer in Association with the Hallé Orchestra.
Mr. Adès’ first opera, Powder Her Face (commissioned by Almeida Opera for the Cheltenham Festival in 1995), has been performed all round the world. Most of the composer’s own music, in addition to compositions by Janácek, Schubert, Castiglioni, Stravinsky, Grieg, and Busoni, has been recorded by EMI, with whom Mr. Adès has an exclusive contract as composer, pianist, and conductor. His second opera, The Tempest, was commissioned by the Royal Opera House and was premiered there under the baton of the composer to great critical acclaim in February 2004.
Thomas Adès’ music has attracted numerous awards and prizes, and he is in demand worldwide as a conductor and pianist. As well as being a renowned interpreter of his own music, his performances and recordings of composers including Kurtág, Janácek, Nancarrow, Schumann, Schubert, Ruders, Tschaikovsky, and Gerald Barry have been critically acclaimed. He performs regularly in collaboration with other artists including Ian Bostridge and the Belcea Quartet and has conducted many orchestras including the BBC Symphony Orchestra and the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, and ensembles including the London Sinfonietta, Ensemble Modern, the Athelas Ensemble and the Birmingham Contemporary Music Group. Mr. Adès has been Artistic Director of the Aldeburgh Festival since 1999.
