02 November 2019 (Sat), 19:00 World famous Bolshoi Ballet and Opera theatre (established 1776) - Small Stage - Modern Ballet Tours of Company Wayne McGregor (Great Britain) "Autobiography" (Ballet in one act) Tickets available only at OperaAndBallet.com
Running time: 1 hour 20 minutes (till 20:20)
Schedule for Tours of Company Wayne McGregor (Great Britain) "Autobiography" (Ballet in one act) 2022
Choreography: Wayne McGregor Ballet company: Company Wayne McGregor (Great Britain) Composer: Jlin Set Designer: Ben Cullen Williams Light Designer: Lucy Carter Costume Designer: Aitor Throup
Modern Ballet in 1 acts
Premiere of this production: 4 October 2017, Sadler’s Wells/ London
Joint project with the Golden Mask National Theatre Festival
Wayne McGregor, who has been occupying top positions in the top list of British and world choreographers for more than 20 years, literally turned his gaze inward, allowing geneticists to completely decipher their genome. His own genotype as an autobiographical text became the impulse to create a ballet - thinking about himself, life, past and future.
Ballet in one act Company Wayne McGregor / UK DanceInversion International Festival of Contemporary Dance presents
Autobiography 2017
Dramaturgy Uzma Hameed
Autobiography Algorithm Nick Rothwell
Originally danced by Rebecca Bassett-Graham, Jordan James Bridge, Travis Clausen-Knight, Louis McMiller, Daniela Neugebauer, Jacob O’Connell, James Pett, Fukiko Takase, Po-Lin Tung, Jessica Wright
For 25 years, British choreographer and director Wayne McGregor has made choreography that interrogates life through the experience of the body. Now McGregor turns his attention to the body as archive, with a dance portrait illuminated by the sequencing of his own genome. In a continuous reimagining, Autobiography is constantly reinvented; the order of the dance pieces algorithmically-assembled from a collection of 23 choreographic volumes which unfold uniquely at each performance.
McGregor is joined by an impressive set of collaborators: electronic musician and producer Jlin (who regularly performs the score live at performances), visual artist Ben Cullen-Williams (winner of 2018 D&AD award for Autobiography's set design) , lighting designer Lucy Carter, artist and designer Aitor Throup (costumes) and dramaturg Uzma Hameed. The Autobiography algorithm which determines the performance order was developed in collaboration with Nick Rothwell.
WINNER Yellow Pencil for Stage Design Ben Cullen Williams for Studio Wayne McGregor
D&AD Awards, 2018
WINNER Best Contemporary Performance
Danza&Danza Magazine Awards, Italy, 2018
WINNER Gross Family Prize 2018 Wayne McGregor and Jlin in recognition of an outstanding new collaboration between dance and music.
The Charles and Joan Gross Family Foundation
Schedule for Tours of Company Wayne McGregor (Great Britain) "Autobiography" (Ballet in one act) 2022
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