Wayne McGregor

Wayne McGregor is a pioneering choreographer and director who founded Wayne McGregor | Random Dance in 1992 and served as choreographer-in-residence at The Place, London. Appointed Research Fellow at the University of Cambridge's Experimental Psychology Department in 2004, he later became the first modern dance maker to serve as Resident Choreographer of The Royal Ballet starting in 2006.

Education:

• University College, Bretton Hall
• José Limon School, New York

His research explores the convergence of dance, technology, and cognitive science through radical interdisciplinary collaborations. McGregor investigates body-brain interactions, digital performance interfaces, and the neuroscience of movement, creating works that merge computational systems with human kinetics. His methodology involves real-time motion capture, AI-driven choreographic agents, and neuroscientific frameworks to deconstruct dance cognition.

His scientific and artistic accolades include:

• CBE (Commander of the Order of the British Empire) - 2011
• Critics Circle Award for Amu
• Critics Circle Award for Chroma
• Critics Circle Award for Infra
• South Bank Show Award for Entity and Infra (2009)
• Benois De La Danse for Infra (2009)
• Movimentos Award for Entity (2009)
• International Theatre Institute Award for Excellence in Dance (2009)
• Arts Foundation Fellowship (1998)
• Time Out Award for Outstanding Achievement (2001)
• Time Out Award for Outstanding Achievement (2003)
• Laurence Olivier Award (2007)

McGregor leads Wayne McGregor | Random Dance while maintaining research partnerships with Cambridge's cognition laboratories and UC San Diego's cognitive science department, where his creative processes serve as live experiments in embodied cognition and collaborative intelligence.