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Wayne McGregor CBE (born 1970) is a British choreographer of contemporary modern dance. His work is known for its particular vocabulary of movement, for its integration of dance with film and visual art, and for its incorporation of computer technology and biological science.〔() www.randomdance.org >Wayne McGregor >About〕 He is the Artistic Director of Wayne McGregor Random Dance, Resident Company at Sadler's Wells Theatre in London and the Resident Choreographer of The Royal Ballet, appointed 2006;〔() Norman Lebrecht, "How Wayne will change the Royal Ballet," 5 December 2006, scena.org.〕 He is Professor of Choreography at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance 〔() Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance (6 March 2014)〕 and holds an honorary doctor of science degree from Plymouth University. He was the government’s first Youth Dance Champion, appointed 2008.〔British Government Department of Culture, Media and Sport, Media Release ("Award-winning choreographer Wayne McGregor appointed country's first ‘Dance Champion’ for young people by Margaret Hodge" )〕 In 2004 McGregor was a Research Fellow in the Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge. His work continues to explore the relationship between movement and brain science.〔() Conversation with Matt Chafee at University of Minnesota〕 McGregor has created new work for international companies including La Scala Theatre Ballet of Milan; Paris Opera Ballet; Nederlands Dans Theatre; San Francisco Ballet; Stuttgart Ballet; New York City Ballet; The Australian Ballet; and English National Ballet of London. He served as Movement Director for ''Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire'' and choreographed music videos for Radiohead ("Lotus Flower") and Atoms for Peace ("Ingenue"). ''Woolf Works'' for The Royal Ballet was his first full-length piece for the company, drawing on the writings of Virginia Woolf with music by Max Richter. McGregor premiered ''Tree of Codes'', a new contemporary ballet created in collaboration with artist Olafur Eliasson and producer/composer Jamie xx at the Manchester International Festival (which commissioned the work) on Friday 3 July 2015. Inspired by the Jonathan Safran Foer artwork of the same name, ''Tree of Codes'' featured dancers from his own company with soloists from the Paris Opera Ballet. ==Biography== McGregor was born in Stockport, England, in 1970. He studied dance at Bretton Hall College of the University of Leeds and at the José Limon School in New York. In 1992 he was appointed Choreographer-in-Residence at The Place, London, and in the same year he founded his own company, Wayne McGregor | Random Dance. McGregor evolved what was to become his distinctive choreographic style on Random. His choreography is an extrapolation of his own movement vocabulary: "() had its origins in McGregor’s own long, lean and supple physique and in his body’s ability to register movement with peculiar sharpness and speed; at one extreme McGregor’s dancing was a jangle of tiny fractured angles, at the other it was a whirl of seemingly boneless fluidity."〔() www.randomdance.org >Wayne McGregor >Biography〕 It was during his major trilogy The Millennarium (1997), Sulphur 16 (1998) and Aeon (2000) that the company became known for its radical approach to new technology – incorporating animation, digital film, 3D architecture, electronic sound and virtual dancers into the live choreography. Collaborations with leading multi-disciplinary artists helped to form the company’s futurist aesthetic. In 2001 it was invited to be the first resident company at the new Sadler’s Wells. McGregor was named one of "25 to Watch" in 2001 by ''Dance Magazine''.〔 〕 His career to date has also included choreographing for films such as "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire", creating site-specific installations for Southbank Centre’s The Hayward, The Saatchi Gallery, the Houses of Parliament and for the Pompidou Centre in Paris. Collaborations with artists outside of the dance field have included composers Sir John Tavener, Scanner, Plaid and Joby Talbot/The White Stripes, animatronics experts, Jim Henson’s Creature Workshop and neuroscientists and heart-imaging specialists. McGregor was the first to curate, in September 2008, the three-day-long new festival for the Royal Opera House, Deloitte Ignite. This came 18 months after his Royal Opera House production "Chroma" (2006). McGregor was appointed Resident Choreographer of The Royal Ballet in December 2006, the first since Kenneth MacMillan. His productions for The Royal Ballet include the award-winning ''Infra'' (2008), ''Limen'' (2009), ''Live Fire Exercise'' (2011), ''Carbon Life'' (2012), ''Machina'' for ''Metamorphosis: Titian 2012'' (2012), "Raven Girl" with author Audrey Niffenegger (2013), and most recently "Tetractys - The Art of Fugue" (2014) with designs by Tauba Auerbach, set to the music of J.S. Bach. In 2009 he presented a new staging of his La Scala production of the opera Dido and Aeneas, alongside Acis and Galatea (this marked McGregor’s Royal Opera debut). He also directed ''Sum'' for The Royal Opera (2012). Recently McGregor has created "Atomos" (2013), ''UNDANCE'' (2011) and "FAR" (2010) for Wayne McGregor | Random Dance, as well new work for San Francisco Ballet, Australian Ballet, Stuttgart Ballet, New York City Ballet and Paris Opera Ballet. McGregor was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2011 New Year Honours for services to dance. In 2013 McGregor was given an Honorary Doctorate of Science from Plymouth University.〔http://www1.plymouth.ac.uk/graduation/honorarydegrees/honoraries2013/Pages/Wayne-McGregor%20CBE.aspx〕 In March 2014 he was appointed Professor of Choreography at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance 〔() Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance (6 March 2014)〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Wayne McGregor」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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