Archive - January 2026

Light, action and expression

The exhibition Wayne McGregor: Infinite Bodies features – amongst other exhibits - dancers from Company Wayne McGregor rehearsing, performing, and experimenting in an interactive three-dimensional installation. Two dancers both performed and became instruments, each on one side of a brass grid of 10,000 LED lights that reflected and echoed the movements of the dancers (and of the visitors). I was perhaps watching – and was part of – a demonstration of, or metaphor for, some of the features of the best leadership: meticulously prepared so as to be precise in enactment and yet sensitive in response, capitalising on the potential of technology and yet deeply human, both collaborative and independent, responsive to what was emergent and yet clear on boundaries, sensitive to what lay beyond those boundaries and reflective of what was happening within them. I’m reflecting too on the nature of movement, flex and dynamism, and their role in delivering, assuring and maintaining leadership, not to mention the infinite need for creativity and light (both literal and figurative).

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