Company Wayne McGregor

Company Wayne McGregor is the performing ensemble at the heart of Wayne McGregor’s wider creative studio, a London-based organisation known internationally for pushing dance into dialogue with science, technology, design, music and visual art. Emerging from the company once known as Random Dance, the group has long occupied a distinctive place in British choreography: intellectually curious, physically extreme and unapologetically contemporary. McGregor’s work asks dancers to operate at the edges of speed, articulation and coordination, producing movement that can feel both hyper-human and strangely machine-like while remaining emotionally charged and theatrically precise.

The company’s repertory is shaped by collaboration. Across stage works, installations, film and digital projects, Company Wayne McGregor frequently works with composers, architects, artists, coders and researchers, treating choreography as part of a broader field of inquiry rather than a closed discipline. That interdisciplinary habit has helped define the company’s aesthetic: sleek, rigorous and adventurous, but never merely decorative. Performances often foreground complex patterning, deep physical intelligence and a restless interest in how bodies process information, sensation and environment. The ensemble’s dancers are therefore interpreters as much as executants, carrying demanding material that depends on acute responsiveness as well as virtuosity.

For Plie, Company Wayne McGregor is essential because it represents one of the clearest examples of dance as contemporary research without sacrificing theatrical impact. Its presence in London, and long association with Sadler’s Wells, connects it to a major UK production ecology, but its influence extends worldwide through touring and cross-sector collaboration. The company shows how ballet-inflected technique and contemporary dance invention can meet in a form that feels genuinely current rather than dutifully modernised.