Multi-award-winning British choreographer Sir Wayne McGregor shares more on his career, which has intersected dance, science, spectacle, art and technology. Recorded in front of a live audience, he is in-conversation with Sadler's Wells Artistic Director Sir Alistair Spalding.
In this in-depth interview, find out more about the experiments that have led Wayne McGregor into collaborative dialogue with an array of artistic forms, collaborators, scientific disciplines, and technological interventions.
0:00 Introduction
1:02 What inspired Wayne McGregor to start dancing?
10:01 Is his work set in the future?
11:10 What is the key to great collaborations?
16:43 What is he like in the rehearsal studio?
28:01 What learning comes from creating in different environments?
30:41 ABBA and can AI be a creative tool?
37:05 What is UniVerse: A Dark Crystals Odyssey about?
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CREDITS
Featuring – Sir Wayne McGregor CBE, Sir Alistair Spalding CBE
Director of Photography – Sarah Vaughan-Jones
Producer, Digital Stage & Studio – Ciara Lynch
Camera Operator – David Kaplowitz
Camera Operator – Joël Cottrell
Editors – Sarah Vaughan-Jones, James Hedgecock
Director of Digital Stage & Studio – Bia Oliviera
Senior Content Manager – Jen Richards
Digital & Content Officers – Angharad Mainwairing and Ella Murphy-O’Neil
Digital & Content Apprentice – Emma Cosgrove
Head Technician (Lilian Baylis Studio) – Jonny Downs
Theatre Technician (Lilian Baylis Studio) - Simon Young
Theatre Technician (Lilian Baylis Studio) – Melissa Holmes
Theatre Technician – Lydia Ford
Executive Director, Studio Wayne McGregor – Rebecca Marshall
Touring & Projects Manager, Studio Wayne McGregor – Jack Hudson
Captioner – Michael Peers
Music – Continent by ANBR
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