Wayne McGregor dancers’ workshop

Info on the workshop

Company Wayne McGregor dancers will deliver a high energy technique class followed by teaching of repertoire and choreographic exercises that expose the creative practices used by Wayne McGregor in the studio.

Po-Lin Tung

Born in Yilan, Taiwan, Po-Lin is Atayal, one of the Taiwanese aboriginal tribes. From 2009-2013, Po-Lin studied dance performance at the Taipei National University of the Arts. He toured Taiwan and the United States in 2012 as a member of Fang Yi Sheu and Artists for a year whilst studying in the school. In 2013, he worked with the Gelsey Kirkland Ballet in New York City for one season, followed by the Mexican company Tania Pérez-Salas Compańía de Danza in Mexico City, and the United States from 2014-2015. In 2015, Po-Lin worked as a freelance dancer in New York City with a number of companies, whilst training with Zvi Gotheiner and Jon Ole Olstad. Po-Lin joined Company Wayne McGregor in 2016.

Jessica Wright

Jessica trained at Central School of Ballet, London, before joining D.A.N.C.E., an interdisciplinary programme based in Brussels, Aix-en-Provence and Dresden. During this time she performed with the Forsythe Company in Human Writes and danced in new works by McGregor, Preljocaj and Flamand. She has restaged excerpts of Company Wayne McGregor works Entity and FAR for Milano City Ballet and Compagnie Grenade (Aix en Provence). Jessica also makes dance films in collaboration with choreographer Morgann Runacre-Temple, commissioned by Channel 4, Big Dance and English National Ballet (in partnership with TATE Liverpool and Manchester International Festival). Their films have screened at international festivals including FIFA (Montreal), Cinedans (Netherlands), Agite y Sirva (Mexico) and ScreenDance (Sweden). The Try Out was nominated for two awards at IMZ’s prestigious DanceScreen Festival (2016). Curing Albrecht (2017) was commissioned by ENB as a curtain-raiser to Akram Khan’s Giselle and was subsequently shown on BBC iPlayer, Canal+ TV (France) and at the ICA. It was awarded ‘Best Dance Film’ at the New Renaissance Film Festival (UK) and ‘Best Director’ at Portland Dance Film Festival (USA) in 2017. Jessica joined company Wayne McGregor in 2008.