Press
Reviews
The 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."