The Wayne McGregor Collection (3-DVD) – Royal Ballet
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The Wayne McGregor Collection (3-DVD) – Royal Ballet
Composers: Thomas Adès, Max Richter, Kaija Saariaho, Joby Talbot, Jack White
Artists: The Royal Ballet & Opera
Choreographer: Wayne McGregor
Video Format: NTSC 16:9
Audio Format: LPCM 2.0 / DTS Digital Surround
Region: All Regions
Subtitles for Chroma, Infra, Limen (bonus material only): French, German, Spanish
Subtitles for The Dante Project (bonus material only): English, French, German, Japanese, Korean
Number of Discs: 3
Studio: Opus Arte
Release Date: June 6, 2025
Run Times: Chroma, Infra, Limen (84 minutes + 14 minutes bonus material); Woolf Works (103 minutes + 15 minutes bonus material); The Dante Project (104 minutes + 11 minutes bonus material)
In a showcase for the genius of The Royal Ballet’s resident choreographer, this collection brings together some of Wayne McGregor’s most outstanding and internationally acclaimed works, comprising three ballets: Chroma, Infra, Limen (recorded 2008), Woolf Works (2017), and The Dante Project (2021).
The diversity of Wayne McGregor’s astonishing invention is demonstrated first through Chroma, Infra, and Limen. Intimate yet universal, both light and dark, vigorous and lyrical, these three ballets reveal McGregor’s passion for exploring the inner workings of the human body and mind, providing visual, sensual, and kinesthetic stimulus for the viewer.
In Woolf Works, McGregor’s first full-length work for The Royal Ballet, the distinctive stream-of-consciousness writing of Virginia Woolf takes new form in a work of luminous beauty.
Inspired by another celebrated literary figure, The Dante Project follows an epic journey through the afterlife, a monumental reinvention of Dante Alighieri’s The Divine Comedy, by turns terrifying, poetic, and dazzling.
McGregor’s gift for collaboration lies at the heart of his practice and is demonstrated here with an extraordinary team of trailblazing artistic minds, including Thomas Adès, Tacita Dean, Max Richter, Julian Opie, and John Pawson. This collection also affords viewers a prized opportunity to admire the remarkable artistry of Royal Ballet dancers past and present.
History
Ballet
In classic or contemporary ballet, dancing may tell a story, express a mood, or simply reflect the music in movement. Ballet as part of staged performances originated in the Italian Renaissance courts of the 15th and 16th centuries and from there spread to France. The creation of classical ballet as we know it today occurred during the reign of the art-loving French king Louis XIV in the mid-17th century. During the Romantic era, ballet technique evolved to express new ideas, most notably with women dancing en point, or on their toes, allowing them to appear weightless and otherworldly.
Among the choreographers who helped bring ballet into the modern age by exploring new visual and dramatic styles are George Balanchine, Antony Tudor and—bridging the worlds of classical dance and Broadway—Agnes de Mille and Jerome Robbins.
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