BIOGRAPHY
Wayne McGregor CBE is a multi-award-winning
British choreographer and director. Wayne is
Artistic Director of Studio Wayne McGregor, the
creative engine of a life-long choreographic
enquiry into thinking through and with the body.
Studio Wayne McGregor encompasses Wayne’s
extensive creative collaborations across dance,
film, music, visual art, technology and science;
Company Wayne McGregor, the touring company
of dancers; and highly specialized learning and
research programmes. Studio Wayne McGregor
opened its own newly created studio spaces at
Here East in Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in
March 2017.
As Resident Choreographer at The Royal Ballet,
Wa yne’s productions are acclaimed for their
daring reconfiguring of classical language. Wayne
is Professor of Choreography at Trinity Laban
Conservatoire of Music and Dance and has an
Honorary Doctor of Science from Plymouth
University and an Honorary Doctor of Letters
from University of Leeds. In 2017 Wayne was
awarded an Honorary Fellowship of the British
Science Association.
Wayne is regularly commissioned by and has
works in the repertories of the most important
ballet companies around the world, including
Paris Opera Ballet, New York City Ballet, Bolshoi
Ballet, Royal Danish Ballet and San Francisco
Ballet. Wayne has choreographed for theatre,
opera, film (Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire,
The Legend of Tarzan, Fantastic Beasts and Where
To Find Them), music videos (Radiohead, Thom
Yorke, The Chemical Brothers), fashion (Gareth
Pugh at London Fashion Week 2017 and New York
Fashion Week 2014), campaigns (Selfridges), TV
(Brit Awards, 2015 and 2016) and site-specific
performances (Big Dance Trafalgar Square, 2012).
Wayne’s work has earned four Critics’ Circle
National Dance Awards, two Time Out Awards,
two South Bank Show Awards, three Olivier
Awards, a prix Benois de la Danse and two Golden
Mask Awards. In 2011 Wayne was awarded a CBE
for Services to Dance.
Most recently Wayne premiered Autobiography
for Company Wayne McGregor at Sadler’s Wells
London, +/- Human, an immersive art installation
and dance performance at the Roundhouse and
Multiverse for The Royal Ballet