A British dance impresario in search of ideas

THE Wellcome Genome Campus, the Sanger Institute and the European Bioinformatics Institute are unlikely places to find a choreographer at work. But such research hubs turn out to be a natural habitat for Wayne McGregor. For more than two decades, the British choreographer has been using dancers to explore cognition, mathematics, neuroscience, astronomy, even modernist literature. (“Woolf Works”, a recent award-winning triptych for the Royal Ballet, was based on three novels by Virginia Woolf.)