Autobiography

AUTOBIOGRAPHY

W. McGregor

Choreography:

Wayne McGregor in collaboration with the dancers

Set Design and Projection:
Ben Cullen Williams

Music:
Jlin

Lighting Design:
Lucy Carter

Dramaturgy:
Uzma Hameed

What does it mean to write your own life-story? For twenty-five years, Wayne McGregor has been making choreography that interrogates life through the experience of the body, moving intelligently in space and time. His practice has been far-reaching and sought out collaborators from a diverse range of artistic and scientific fields to investigate the nature of embodied cognition.

Now McGregor turns his attention to the body as archive, as he embarks on a cycle of choreographic portraits illuminated by the sequencing of his own genome. The first of these studies, Autobiography, is an abstract meditation on aspects of self, life, writing, refracting both remembered pasts and speculative futures.

Palimpsesting McGregor’s choreographic imprint over personal memoir and genetic code in a continuous re-imagining, Autobiography unfolds uniquely for each and every performance. Life, writing itself anew.

Music is by electronic musician Jlin. Lighting is by long-standing collaborator and award-winning lighting designer Lucy Carter.

Source: waynemcgregor.com