Compañía Wayne McGregor

Deepstaria

* Programme subject to change

Founded in 1993 by choreographer and director Sir Wayne McGregor, the company emerged from the creative drive of his early projects and choreographic research centred on thinking through the body.

Based at London’s Sadler’s Wells Theatre, the company has created over thirty works and toured in more than fifty countries. Its performances are known for inhabiting unconventional spaces, such as the Venice Biennale of Dance, Frieze London, Barbican Curve, Roundhouse, and Secret Cinema, as well as high-profile events including The BRIT Awards, London and New York Fashion Weeks, and the BBC Proms.

It is part of Studio Wayne McGregor, an organisation that brings together McGregor’s artistic collaborations across dance, visual arts, film, theatre, opera, fashion and music videos. The studio also supports international commissions, specialised education programmes, artist development, and research at the intersection of art, science and technology.

 

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“Wayne McGregor’s hyperkinetic choreography with extreme extensions can sometimes seem overloaded, but in Deepstaria it brought a balletic clarity to his company’s spinning and shifting journey through different worlds: a bottomless black cosmos, an aquatic landscape, and a more human terrain. Here, the human body —so fragile and small, yet so strong— conveyed a message of resilience and hope.”

Gia Kourlas, The New York Times

“Deepstaria, which takes its name from a species of jellyfish —itself named after Jacques Cousteau’s submarine— invites us to delve into the void, using cutting-edge technology to create a sense of deep darkness and to ‘disrupt traditional hierarchies of perception'.”

The Telegraph

“By going beyond ourselves, we seek the knowledge that enlightens and develops our human condition. At the same time, these spaces of infinite darkness, almost like a womb, feel strangely familiar, resonating with forgotten connections deep within and perhaps awakening faint echoes of unconscious states of being, floating in places before and after.”

– Wayne McGregor

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