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22
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Wayne McGregor: On The Other Earth
Wayne McGregor: On The Other Earth
The 3D 360 Post-Cinematic Performance Experience. Somerset House off site at Stone Nest.
Wayne McGregor: On The Other Earth, the world's first post-cinematic choreographic installation, 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-degreestereoscopic, 12k LED, 26-million-pixel nVis screen, where 3D imagery is experienced within anenveloping, 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.
On The Other Earth breaks the fourth wall as 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 Invisible Mountain. Never encountered in the same way twice, groups of up to 20 people will experience On The Other Earth’s visual and sonic landscapes unfolding before them in a series of thought-provoking otherworldly encounters and intimate interplay, upending our perceptions of performance and the future of entertainment.
Multiple Strobes and Flashing Lights are used in this performance.
Co-produced by Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong Ballet and Studio Wayne McGregor, London
Co-commissioned by La Biennale di Venezia, Danza; Somerset House, London;Tai Kwun – Centre for Heritage and Arts, Hong Kong
Presented in partnership with Stone Nest.
Opening at Somerset House on 30 October 2025 will be a groundbreaking exhibition dedicated to the polymath practice of internationally renowned choreographer and director Sir Wayne McGregor CBE. Marking the culmination of Somerset House’s 25th birthday celebrations, it will offer a bold exploration of McGregor’s three-decade career.
Entitled Infinite Bodies, this landmark exhibition explores how McGregor’s investigations into the body, movement and cutting-edge digital technologies have radically redefined our perception of physical intelligence. A series of multi-sensory choreographic installations, performances and experiments will take over Somerset House’s Embankment Galleries, including spectacular new commissions.
McGregor’s work has been experienced by millions worldwide. He has been at the forefront of contemporary dance for over thirty years, creating epoch-defining works with his own company of dancers, Company Wayne McGregor. He is Resident Choreographer at the Royal Ballet and Artistic Director of La BIennale di Venezia and choreographed the revolutionary ABBA Voyage concert in London. He has created works which have been performed at some of the most prestigious international venues including Lincoln Center in New York, Milan’s La Scala, Paris Opera Ballet and Sydney Opera House.
Photo credit: Ravi Deepres and Luke Unsworth
Wayne McGregor: On The Other Earth, the world's first post-cinematic choreographic installation, 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-degreestereoscopic, 12k LED, 26-million-pixel nVis screen, where 3D imagery is experienced within anenveloping, 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.
On The Other Earth breaks the fourth wall as 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 Invisible Mountain. Never encountered in the same way twice, groups of up to 20 people will experience On The Other Earth’s visual and sonic landscapes unfolding before them in a series of thought-provoking otherworldly encounters and intimate interplay, upending our perceptions of performance and the future of entertainment.
Multiple Strobes and Flashing Lights are used in this performance.
Co-produced by Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong Ballet and Studio Wayne McGregor, London
Co-commissioned by La Biennale di Venezia, Danza; Somerset House, London;Tai Kwun – Centre for Heritage and Arts, Hong Kong
Presented in partnership with Stone Nest.
Opening at Somerset House on 30 October 2025 will be a groundbreaking exhibition dedicated to the polymath practice of internationally renowned choreographer and director Sir Wayne McGregor CBE. Marking the culmination of Somerset House’s 25th birthday celebrations, it will offer a bold exploration of McGregor’s three-decade career.
Entitled Infinite Bodies, this landmark exhibition explores how McGregor’s investigations into the body, movement and cutting-edge digital technologies have radically redefined our perception of physical intelligence. A series of multi-sensory choreographic installations, performances and experiments will take over Somerset House’s Embankment Galleries, including spectacular new commissions.
McGregor’s work has been experienced by millions worldwide. He has been at the forefront of contemporary dance for over thirty years, creating epoch-defining works with his own company of dancers, Company Wayne McGregor. He is Resident Choreographer at the Royal Ballet and Artistic Director of La BIennale di Venezia and choreographed the revolutionary ABBA Voyage concert in London. He has created works which have been performed at some of the most prestigious international venues including Lincoln Center in New York, Milan’s La Scala, Paris Opera Ballet and Sydney Opera House.
Photo credit: Ravi Deepres and Luke Unsworth
