Wayne mcgregor works
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AUTOBIOGRAPHY V98 + V99
Company Wayne McGregor
WHERE & WHEN
The Creative School Chrysalis
43 Gerrard St. East
Tuesday, Oct 1
7:30 PM
*Post-Show Artist chat moderated by Robert Binet
Wednesday, Oct 2
7:30 PM
Running Time:
75-minutes without intermission
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Genetic code, AI and choreography merge in a work that re-imagines and remakes itself anew for every performance.
Throughout his career, Wayne McGregor has made choreography that interrogates life through the experience of the body in its multifaceted relationship with technology. In 2017, McGregor turned his attention to the ‘body as archive’ with Autobiography (1.0), the first in a developing series of unique dance portraits inspired and determined by the sequencing of his own genetic code.
Layering choreographic imprints over personal memoir and in dialogue with a specially created algorithm that hijacks McGregor’s DNA data, Autobiography upends the traditional nature of dance-making as artificial intelligence and instinct converge in creative authorship.
In the latest iterations of the work, AISOMA – a new AI tool developed with Google Arts and Culture utilizing machine-learning trained on 100s of hours of McGregor’s choreographic archive – overwrites the configurations of its initial state to present fresh movement options to the p
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Wayne McGregor and “an autobiography”
<first published in “Slipped Disc”, March 13, 2024>
A number of today’s leading choreographers are impressively dual-functional. Alexei Ratmansky, artist in residence at New York City Ballet, makes new ballets but is also in the front line of recreating historically informed versions of the nineteenth-century classics. Matthew Bourne has made a series of hit creations for his own company, New Adventures, while also working as a West End director-choreographer on “Mary Poppins”, “Oliver!” and other West End/Broadway shows. Christopher Wheeldon makes new ballets and is another director-choreographer, in his case with “MJ the Musical” (2022, Broadway, soon to open in London), about the life and music of Michael Jackson. Akram Khan became a leading British contemporary dance choreographer while also performing as an eminent exponent of the classical Indian genre of Kathak (he has added a triple function by making ballets for ballet companies). Justin Peck, resident choreographer of New York City Ballet, also choreographs for Broadway (“
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