Contemporary | Guest Artist
Led by Antoine Vereecken
Wayne McGregor CBE (Most Excellent Order of the British Empire) is a multi-award-winning British choreographer and director. He is Artistic Director of Studio Wayne McGregor, encompassing creative collaborations in dance, film, music, visual art, technology and science; a touring company of dancers Company Wayne McGregor; and learning and research programmes. Wayne McGregor is also Resident Choreographer at The Royal Ballet, Director of Dance for the Venice Biennale until 2024, and is regularly commissioned by, and has works in the repertories of the most important ballet companies around the world including Paris Opera Ballet, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, New York City Ballet, Bolshoi Ballet, Royal Danish Ballet and San Francisco Ballet. He has choreographed for theatre, opera, film: Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Sing, Mary Queen of Scots, music videos: Radiohead, The Chemical Brothers, fashion: Nick Knight for SHOWstudio, Soma for COS, Gareth Pugh at London Fashion Week, campaigns: Selfridges, Boots No 7, and TV. McGregor is Professor of Choreography at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance, has Honorary Doctorates from Plymouth University, University of Leeds, University of Chester, University of the Arts London, and is an Honorary Fellow of the British Science Association. He has won four Critics’ Circle National Dance Awards, two Time Out Awards, two South Bank Show Awards, three Olivier Awards, a Prix Benois de la Danse and two Golden Mask Awards. In 2011 McGregor was awarded a CBE for Services to Dance and in 2021 was honoured with a Lifetime Achievement Award at the Prix de Lausanne.
Antoine Vereecken
Born in Gent, Belgium, Antoine Vereecken trained at the Royal Ballet School of Antwerp. From 1993–1997 he performed with les ballets C de la B. In 1997, he joined Danse de la Renaissance in Frankfurt and later joined the Kibbutz Contemporary Dance Company, Israel. From 2001-2003, Vereecken performed with the Richard Alston Dance Company and danced for Company Wayne McGregor, from 2004–2011. Since 2011, he has been the Principal Restager at Studio Wayne McGregor and has worked on projects including the film Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire and opera Dido and Aeneas (La Scala), as well as re-staging McGregor’s repertoire with companies including National Ballet of Canada, The Bolshoi Ballet, The Mariinsky Ballet, Dutch National Ballet, and Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater. In 2012 he won the Isadora Duncan Award for his re-staging of Chroma at the San Francisco Ballet.