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A visually striking and thought-provoking work requiring continual concentration to absorb.

The combination of spectacular backdrops and evocative film projections are visually stunning and the dancers are superb, but Wayne McGregor's MaddAddam is difficult to follow.

Final verdict on Woolf Works? It’s sprawling, uneven, with parts that are thrilling and other parts that are prosaic and shallow.

Extraordinary dancers performing extraordinary movement, but the noise was too invasive. 

Thomas Adès' score does most of the storytelling in this epic production, though the dancing is superlative.

Outstanding dance, right up there in the top drawer of McGregor’s choreography, but would have been better seen in a less accessorised state.

Every decade or so, The Royal Ballet creates a new work that will endure in its signature collection, and there's little doubt that Woolf Works deserves its place among that elite.   

Australian Ballet's latest triple bill features fresh young talent and new names to watch in creations by Wayne McGregor, Alice Topp and Justin Peck.

McGregor's new creation for the Milanese company imagines Les Noces as a sequel to his take on The Rite of Spring.

After two years of pandemic disruptions, the Australian Ballet celebrates its return to the stage with this gala of impressively-chosen showstopper pas de deux.

Marianela Núñez possesses a shimmering, celestial radiance and Vadim Muntagirov is a Prince in his prime.

An event that will be long-remembered for the importance of the occasion, if not for its content. 

Fêted collaboration lacks substance despite committed performances, and it's Cherkaoui's Faun that captures the human connection.

The second Dance@TheGrange builds on its reputation for fearless programming, with performances from Company Wayne McGregor and Ballet Black, and a standout new work by Ballet Black's Mthuthuzeli November

A new manifesto for Rambert under new management of Benoit Swan Pouffer. 

Alessandra Ferri, the former La Scala Prima Ballerina Assoluta, makes her triumphant return to Milan as the moving incarnation of Virginia Woolf in Wayne McGregor's most mature, complete and striking piece to date.

Audio and film permeate Marriott's new work for The Royal Ballet, recounting the tale of Ted Feltham, a British Soldier uuring World War 1, and his fiancée, Florence Billington. 

At Edinburgh’s Festival Theatre, Wayne McGregor explores what it means to have a life story in Autobiography for the Edinburgh International Festival.

Wayne McGregor brings Cunningham-esque chance back to dance in this innovative and challenging production in which every show will be different 

A random assortment of disassociated ballets performed with variable success - from the sublime to the nondescript. 

Two outstanding world premières honour the centenary of a great composer 

There’s always this hazard in self-produced works: you operate in a bubble where no one tells you that you need to look more outward and less inward.

Boston Ballet opens the 2017-2018 season with a program full of power, grace and artistic unity

Wayne McGregor’s new dance work explores the relation between human bodies and technology as part of his curated installation +/- Human.

With Contrasts, the Mariinsky dancers are put under a multifaceted microscope. 

McGregor delivers a mighty concept through strong leadership and teamwork; creating art, through movement, that possesses both complexity and depth, yet unfolds with arresting clarity.  

A fascinating collaborative, creative effort combines to make this the most important new work to enter the repertoire of The Royal Ballet, thus far, in the twenty-first century

Wayne McGregor's triple bill at the Royal Opera House celebrates his 10th year as Resident Choreographer of the Royal Ballet. His insatiable curiosity and driving creativity has brought challenge, change and occasionally controversy to the cornerstone of British ballet.

The Royal Ballet revives Kenneth MacMillan’s The Invitation, to great public acclaim and with excellent performances in the main roles. The programme also features McGregor's new Obsidian Tear and Wheeldon's Within the Golden Hour.

Wayne McGregor pulls together a stellar all male cast for the Royal Ballet's world première of hisnew work, Obsidian Tear. 

The Sadler’s Wells Sampled evening had the whole building buzzing and dancing with a show of bite size dance appetisers for all tastes and also includes several extra activities.

With a programme inspired by neuroscience and fairytale, the Royal Ballet shows that one is not born, but rather, becomes a woman.

The National Ballet of Canada opens the Danse Danse festival in Montreal with a triple bill of minimalist neoclassical works.

Tree of Codes opens at the Park Avenue Armory in New York - a collaboration between Wayne McGregor, Olafur Eliasson and Jamie xx.

Choreographer Wayne McGregor, music producer Jamie XX and artist Olafur Eliasson fill in Foer's gaps, in a performance of Tree of Codes that brings Random dance and Paris Opera corps and principal dancers together on stage, at the Manchester International Festival.

A diverse program which shows the breadth and depth of the Royal Ballet. 

Dutch National Ballet closes a vibrant season with Cool Britannia, including exciting world premieres by David Dawson and Christopher Wheeldon and a sensational performance of Wayne McGregor's Chroma.

Praise goes to Wayne McGregor, Alessandra Ferri and the Royal Ballet for their bold, modern and innovative treatment of Virginia Woolf's legacy.

Pia Savoie reviews the Australian Ballet in Chroma at the Sydney Opera House, including works by Wayne McGregor, Jiři Kylián, and a new choreography by Stephen Baynes.

Wayne McGregor's Random Dance unites science and dance in Atomos at The Laban Theatre, London. 

Wayne McGregor astounds with his choreographic virtuosity, entrancing soundtrack and mesmerizing set design in FAR: this postmodern look at the body creates a veritable lexicon of movement. At Théâtre Maisonneuve, Montréal.

Grids are the visual design motif of Wayne McGregor’s Atomos, which world premièred this past week at Sadler’s Wells. The 65-minute ballet opens with its ten dancers in a square of light downstage right.

When planning for the 2012/13 season, Artistic Director Mikko Nissinen could not have known how incredibly well-timed Chroma would seem for the Boston community.

FAR stands for Flesh in the Age of Reason, the title of Roy Porter’s last, magisterial work (tagline: “How the Enlightenment transformed the way we see our bodies and souls”). Porter’s book is a history of the relationship between flesh and spirit in the 18th century.

With the triple bill Viscera / Infra / Fool’s Paradise, The Royal Ballet have confirmed the status of their new holy trinity of choreographers: Wayne McGregor, Christopher Wheeldon and Liam Scarlett.

Metamorphosis: Titian 2012 invited artists from different disciplines, mainly the visual arts, dance and music, to respond to Titian's three magnifient paintings of the Diana and Actaeon myth. The results are displayed in an exhibition at the National Gallery (alongside Titian's originals), and in an triple bill of new ballets at the Royal Opera House.

The works in this triple bill were all created by choreographers in their twenties and two of them are new works made for the Royal Ballet this season, making for an evening of fresh, exuberant modern ballet. The Royal Opera House had given over the entire Amphitheatre to student tickets for this performance, so there was a youthful buzz in the audience to match the youthful buzz on stage.

There are triple bills ---and there are triple bills. And this one –the first of The Royal Ballet’s 2011/12 season -- is certainly a top rate one.The programme, put together by Artistic director Monica Mason in her final year at the helm, gives an historical glimpse into the foundations and creative growth of The Royal Ballet over the years.

Wayne McGregor is a rare talent. Supremely intelligent and creative, he has forged a new language of dance, one which is uncompromising and always challenging, especially when he works with his own company Random Dance.