Unlike a lot of choreographers, I don’t always start with the music. I often start with a visual artist, and then find music that fits the world of that visual artist. Wayne McGregor Read Quote
I like to practise. With every new piece, you make mistakes and you learn. So it’s important to get on and have another go. Wayne McGregor Read Quote
Everyone is always telling me that I must be exhausted, but I’ve learned how to use my time well, and that includes holidays to recharge. I always try to give myself big chunks of time to think about what the next project is going to be. Wayne McGregor Read Quote
If you put yourself in a place where you’re having to work at understanding something, then you keep yourself awake to all possible choices. How the body will look like in the future, the ethics of the body: those are questions that really fascinate me. Let’s get the dialogue going. Wayne McGregor Read Quote
I’ve always been just as interested in making people think as I am in making them feel, and one of the things this scientific process allows me to do is make the audience look differently at dance. Wayne McGregor Read Quote
Entity’ is not about science. The process behind it may dictate the nature of the piece, but it’s not like a dance about Einstein where I’m trying to convert his ideas into movement and communicate that to an audience. Wayne McGregor Read Quote
I always try to keep a little bit of space in the year to work with other people. Because I love doing musicals, films and plays – projects where I’m not in charge, where I’ve got somebody else telling me what to do and I have to work with their vision. Wayne McGregor Read Quote
I think it’s the responsibility of a major opera house not only to cultivate debate and get people thinking, but also to be interfaced with things that challenge them. To challenge its audience and not just deliver things that they know, even though some of those things are wonderful. Wayne McGregor Read Quote