Press
Reviews
The New York Times, December 5 2011
"it is beguilingly simple, pellucid, a remarkable demonstration of discipline by its three participants, each of whom seems to have pared down his contribution to its most essential attributes..."
Read the full reviewThe Guardian, December 2 2011
"One of the most legible and straightforward pieces McGregor has ever created".
Read the full reviewThe Observer, November 21 2010
A "sensually complex work onstage to engage with, and...the equally demanding task of following the choreographer's intellectual trail. The style is clearly McGregor's own – the rippling backs, the tendril arms, the probing hyperextensions – but this is McGregor in evolution".
Read the full reviewThe Daily Express, November 19 2010
"There is...a riptide of poignancy that seeds feelings of love, hate, despair, sadness and occasional joy that geminate throughout... McGregor is perhaps the only contemporary choreographer who can claim to have captured the anti-matter of movement. A powerful and compelling evening."
Read the full reviewThe Times, November 19 2010
FAR "talks about the the Enlightenment's fascination with the working of the mind and the dissection of the body...draw[ing] to a close with ...the utmost tenderness and finality..."
The Huffingon Post, May 17 2010
"This energetic, sexy ballet is everything a contemporary ballet can be. It takes from the past and rockets to the future."
Read the full reviewThe Guardian, February 21 2010
"The choreography confirms McGregor as a master of contemporary ballet. There is a meticulousness in his approach that gives every split-second twist and torque of the body a burnished clarity. He elicits - transforming performances from his dancers."
Read the full reviewThe New York Times, April 28 2009
"[McGregor is] the closest thing to a rock star that ballet can currently claim..."
Read the full reviewThe New York Times, November 28 2008
"Mr. McGregor, a 38-year-old Englishman who is also the resident choreographer at the venerable Royal Ballet, is doing some of the most exciting work in ballet on the planet".
Read the full reviewThe Sunday Times Culture, April 20 2008
" A great sexy beast of a piece - it's like being licked by a panther's juicy, rasping tongue while you're revising maths"
Read the full reviewEl Pais, June 22 2008
"Wayne McGregor has emerged as a genius in full development... his ingenuity has no borders. Wayne McGregor is the grand hero of the Venice Biennale".
Read the full reviewThe Telegraph, April 14 2008
"The steps unfold with startling clarity and breathtaking invention. You don't need to know what he is doing to appreciate that he is doing something different."
Read the full reviewThe Observer, April 13 2008
"This is state of the art...awe-inspiring"
Read the full reviewThe Independent, April 14 2008
"It looks like nothing on earth"
Read the full reviewThe Guardian, April 11 2008
"There is no other dance vocabulary like this....Wayne McGregor's choreography operates within a perfect tension. On the one hand, his dancers remind me of paintings by Francis Bacon: their bodies deformed by twitchy, hyper-extended moves, their physical effect almost inhuman as they nuzzle and blur into each other. On the other, there is a heroic purity of articulation in their dancing - each phrase precisely cut, each patterned ensemble a paean to intellectual clarity... its riches of invention will hold you riveted."