Dido and Aeneas/Acis and Galatea - 2009
Press
The New York Times, April 28 2009
"[McGregor is] the closest thing to a rock star that ballet can currently claim..."
Read the full articleThe Telegraph, April 1 2009
"The show is enchanting. Director Wayne McGregor and his designer Hildegard Bechtler mine a sparely elegant idiom that conveys a sense of period without being kitsch....inspiration has come from the music:there can be no higher praise"
Read the full articleThe Times, March 21 2009
âThere's always an expectation that when a choreographer does an opera that there'll be lots of dancing,â McGregor says, âthat all of a sudden we're going to use somebody bopping around. But the skill of a choreographer is how to use the body, and the principles of the body, to communicate meaning.â
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