Wayne McGregor Creates Choreography From His Own DNA Code

The "resident brainbox of British dance" tells David Jays about how he got a lab to sequence his entire genome ("three billion bits of information," McGregor says excitedly, "60 volumes of the Encyclopaedia Britannica"), created a series of "choreographic events," and uses a software algorithm based on his DNA to sequence those "events" differently for every performance. (Yes, he knows that's hard on his dancers.)

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