LONDON.- This October, Somerset House presents Infinite Bodies, a landmark exhibition by internationally acclaimed choreographer and director Sir Wayne McGregor CBE. Marking the culmination of Somerset House’s 25th birthday celebrations, it brings together a dynamic constellation of collaborators across dance, visual arts and sound, exploring bold new expressions of the body across space, time, and technology. A series of multi-sensory installations, performances and experiments will take over Somerset House’s Embankment Galleries, including spectacular new commissions. Company Wayne McGregor, McGregor’s world-class company of dancers, will be in residence at Somerset House periodically activating the installations and facilitating interactions.
Presented offsite, in partnership with Stone Nest in London’s West End, McGregor unveils On The Other Earth, a radical new installation to extend the experience of Infinite Bodies beyond Somerset House. As the world’s first post-cinematic choreographic installation, it refracts, evolves and reimagines dance performance in a startlingly original new form of experience.
Set within Jeffrey Shaw and Sarah Kenderdine’s radically immersive, panoramic, 360-degree stereoscopic, 12k LED, 26-million-pixel nVis screen, where 3D imagery is experienced within an enveloping, large-scale cylindrical architecture of eight metres wide and four metres tall. Created in collaboration with artists Ravi Deepres and Theresa Baumgartner, and combining dance, choreography, digital imaging, spatialised sound, and AI, McGregor once again redefines how we think about movement, the body, and performance.
In On The Other Earth, visitors are invited into the heart of the dance, connecting in close contact with the hyperreal dancers of Company Wayne McGregor and the Hong Kong Ballet in a physicalised sound environment designed by In rible Mountain, the collective comprised of Oscar-winning sound designer Nicolas Becker (Gravity, Arrival, Sound of Metal) and renowned music producer LEXX. In groups of just 20, audiences are surrounded by shifting visual and sonic landscapes, where a series of thought-provoking otherworldly scenes and moments of intimate interplay unfold in every direction, expanding perceptions of performance and the future of entertainment.
Back at Somerset House, Infinite Bodies provides audiences with a series of major choreographic installations and commissions exploring movement, perception and technology in McGregor’s evolving creative world.
