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Wayne McGregor's Installation On The Other Earth

by Maria Luisa Buzzi

His art is as rapid and fast flowing as are his thoughts. The choreographer Wayne McGregor is a torrent of ideas, curiosity and sheer brilliance: with his talent for breaking new ground in the arts and technological experimentation, he is committed to finding a new place for the dancer's body in the new frontiers made possible by digital media in the third millennium. A longtime sci-fi fan, McGregor seems not to have lost any of his childhood enthusiasm for discoveries and unexplored worlds, not to mention technological innovation in all its forms. This passion shone through at a young age in one of his first solo pieces, Cyborg. His artistic practice later embraced neuroscience, algorithms and genetic code sequencing (as in Autobiography, a beautiful piece from 2017). It is therefore ...

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