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Temps fort de la saison du Ballet de l'Opéra National de Bordeaux, la soirée « Quatre tendances » associe cette année deux créations de Wiest et Casquilho et deux œuvres cultes de McGregor et León & Lighfoot.

À l'image de la Divine Comédie qu'il illustre, le ballet de Wayne McGregor (sur une musique originale de Thomas Adès) est dense, abscons, métaphorique.

Wayne McGregor est de retour à l’Opéra de Paris pour présenter Tree of Codes, en collaboration avec le compositeur électro Jamie xx et le plasticien Olafur Eliasson. Mais aussi sympathique soit-elle à voir, la chorégraphie ne propose pas grand-chose d’autre que son caractère branché, purement décoratif, en fait de concept artistique.  

Avec une soirée mixte réunissant les chorégraphies de Christopher Wheeldon, Wayne McGregor et Pina Bausch, l’Opéra de Paris rend hommage au compositeur et chef d’orchestre contemporain Pierre Boulez.

A l’occasion de sa seconde collaboration artistique avec le Ballet de l’Opéra de Paris, le chorégraphe britannique Wayne McGregor nous propose un voyage chorégraphique dans l’univers du peintre Francis Bacon.

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.

Das Niederländische Nationalballett zeigt zum Saisonauftakt einen aktuellen und kritischen Ballettabend.

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.

Wayne McGregor schafft eine anspruchsvolle Choreographie, die subtil an Geschwindigkeit und Intensität aufnimmt und klassische Posen mit nervösen Zuckungen kombiniert.

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.