Infra - 2008
Press
The Telegraph, February 22 2010
"...Infra, quite the best piece the Royal's resident choreographer Wayne McGregor has made for the company....It's a piece full of strong images, but what is most impressive is the rigorous structure that holds it together, the way each rippling duet has a relationship to the one before, until in the final coupling Edward Watson and Marianela Nuñez seem to find a kind of grace and hope."
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, 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 Telegraph, November 14 2008
****"It is incredibly lovely, full of striking images, and redolent of an emotional richness new to McGregor's work. It is on BBC2 next Saturday and you should watch it.
Read the full reviewThe Guardian, November 15 2008
**** "With the last ballet that Wayne McGregor created for Covent Garden, he generated the kind of buzz that comes to most artists only once in their careers. Not only did Chroma become one of the hottest tickets of 2006, it led to McGregor being made choreographer-in-residence at the Royal, the first to hold the post in 14 years. It would seem impossible for his new ballet to live up to expectations. But McGregor has gone beyond delivering the goods."
Read the full reviewMetro, November 17 2008
****"McGregor's anatomy-defying choreography
The Independent on Sunday, November 16 2008
"McGregor's iconoclasm acts as a heat-seeking missile, zoning in on talent."
Read the full reviewThe Times, November 17 2008
**** "There was a lot riding on this ballet... and it does everything...McGregor's movement may still be a full-body workout (undulating torsos, limbs constantly in motion, muscles yearning to exceed their limits) but it speaks as strongly of compassion and anger, of happiness and anxiety, tenderness and tears."
Read the full reviewThe Times, November 3 2008
"Few choreographers take the body to the extremes that McGregor does. His abstract ballets constantly rethink the principles of movement and expose limbs and joints to extraordinary degrees of hyperarticulation".
Read the full previewMetro, November 11 2008
"A world away from ballet's usual stamping ground..."
The Telegraph, November 12 2008
"The questing spirit is one quality that makes McGregor such an interesting choreographer. But it is his zest for turning dance into a relevant form which makes him so valuable to the Royal Ballet."
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