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unusual facts about Wayne McGregor


Jasmine Simhalan

Simhalan has toured and performed in productions of Wayne McGregor (UK), Richard Alston (UK), Laurie Booth (UK), Roger Sinha (Canada), Mavin Khoo (UK), and was also part of the 2001 Basement Jaxx album and Emergency Exit Arts production RungaRung.


Ihsan Rustem

He has created ballets with Karole Armitage, Matthew Bourne, Alexander Ekman, Wayne McGregor, Hofesh Shechter, Cayetano Soto, Ken Ossola, Georg Reischl and danced further works by  Maurice Béjart, William Forsythe, David Parsons and Twyla Tharp, amongst others.

Jules Maxwell

He made the soundtrack for Oscar nominated short film "Dance Lexie Dance” directed by Tim Loane, an old college friend from Queen’s, and also collaborated with Wayne McGregor for the first time on an audacious dance project called “Cybergeneration” for Belfast Festival.

Matthias Sperling

He was a member of Wayne McGregor’s Random Dance Company for five years and also worked with companies including Kerry Nicholls Dance Company and Matthew Bourne’s Adventures in Motion Pictures, besides participating in the Jerwood Bank Project 2006 with Siobhan Davies Dance Company.

Monty Adkins

The most notable of these have been Neurotransmission (1998), an hour-long acousmatic dance score written for Wayne McGregor and Random Dance in 1998, Still Time (2001) for the flutist Alejandro Escuer, Symbiont (2002) a multimedia collaboration with Miles Chalcraft, and nights bright daies (2003) for the Ictus piano and percussion quartet; the latter premiered in June 2004 at the Festival Agora No 7 at IRCAM (Paris, France).

Viviana Durante

She created roles in MacMillan's The Judas Tree and Winter Dreams (based on Anton Chekhov’s Three Sisters), in Wayne McGregor's Fleur de Peux, in Ashley Page's Pursuit, Piano, Bloodlines, ...now languorous, now wild... and Cheating, Lying, Stealing, in Will Tuckett's Present Histories, in David Bintley's Tombeaux and in Amedeo Amodio's Cabiria.


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