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Resident choreographer for the Royal Ballet Wayne McGregor thinks before he moves and contemplates before he choreographs. His work is grounded in science and an ongoing research project, collaborating with neuroscientists, looking for mediation between physical instinct and intention. His long time fascination with the relationship between body and brain creates a choreographic ethos that resists the idea that dance evolves from a vague and passive process. McGregor aims to emphasise the connection between the cerebral and movement, treating dancers as specimens, analysing movement, to create a new dance vocabulary.

These ideas are explored in Entity with Random Dance, coming to the Festival Theatre, in the second year of its international tour. An hour long breathtaking trip through a contrasting soundscape by Coldplay and Massive Attack collaborator Jon Hopkins and composer Joby Talbot (The Divine Comedy), Entity is a staggering blend of bodies, lights, technology and film. Technically astonishing, the work is as cutting edge and hard hitting in style as it is in the ideas it explores. Coming from one of the most prolific figures in contemporary choreography, McGregor’s award winning work is sure to entice as much for its multimedia spectacle as its conceptual intelligence

Read our review of Entity at the Royal Ballet.