Viewing Wayne McGregor: Infinite Bodies at Somerset House

Wayne McGregor: Infinite Bodies opens at Somerset House this week, a major survey taking over the Embankment Galleries representing the thirty-year practice of the choreographer Sir Wayne McGregor CBE.

This immersive exhibition draws attention to McGregor’s lifelong investigation of the body — its capacity for intelligence, movement and interaction. McGregor has always worked at the intersection between choreography, digital technologies and spatial experience and this exhibition reflects this in motion capture, artificial intelligence, robotics and immersive installations, alongside live, unscheduled interventions by his company of dancers, Company Wayne McGregor. The whole experience is designed to encourage a completely new understanding of dance and how we engage with it.

Also among the highlights is a new commission created with Industrial Light & Magic, melding choreographic imagery and high-end visual effects; and a major off-site immersive work titled On The Other Earth, staged at Stone Nest in London’s West End, which employs a 360° cylindrical LED environment to envelop the audience in movement, sound and spatial choreography. A vivid, enlightening account of McGregor’s groundbreaking, radical and interdisciplinary practice.