UNDANCE - 2011
Press
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 Financial Times, December 4 2011, ****
"It is dance that is at once vividly present and also reverberating on the retina and in our consciousness, thanks to time lapse camerawork."
Read the full reviewThe Telegraph, 4 December 4 2011 ****
"The heroic qualities of Undance... Turnage’s sumptuous score in eight movements is a network of oppositions..."
Front Row, BBC Radio 4, November 29 2011
‘I would really like an extreme reaction” says Wayne McGregor....
Item starts at 11.40 minutesThe Telegraph, November 29 2011
"Watching him at work, one is struck by his own energy. He bounces between groups of dancers, clicking his fingers, his arms shooting above his head..."
Read the full articleBBC Online, November 25 2011
"Usually the choreographer comes up with a concept and then briefs the designer and composer and that's how I've been working for 20 years," says McGregor.
"But it's good to work with other people. It creates a tension that makes you take decisions you wouldn't if you weren't working with someone else."
The Times, November 15 2011
"There are two basic elements' explains Mark Waliinger. "The first is photographer Eadweard Muybridge's grid, in which human actions are enacted in a rather analytical way. There will be a film element to the piece, with the live dancers interacting with their filmic selves against a Muybridge grid. The second element is sculptor Richard Serra's Compilation Of Verbs, the ones about activity - roll, twist, spill, flow, rotate. I tallied up the ones that might have been repeated within Muybridge's cannon and that was a starting point. You start with very recognisable motions and then things get more complex through repetition... "