Somerset House marks the culmination of it’s 25th birthday celebrations not with a retrospective, but a living, breathing experiment. Infinite Bodies, a landmark exhibition by choreographer and director Sir Wayne McGregor CBE, turns the building’s Embankment Galleries into a kinetic playground — part group show, part laboratory, and part sensory hallucination.
This isn’t a solo spotlight; it’s a constellation. McGregor gathers an expansive network of collaborators across dance, visual art, sound, film, and technology — from Industrial Light & Magic and Random International to artist Ben Cullen Williams, sound collective Invisible Mountain, and Google Arts & Culture Lab. The result is less a show you look at and more a world you move through, where choreography becomes architecture, and data, light, and sound pulse with human rhythm.
At its core, Infinite Bodies asks how movement can be translated — across mediums, across minds, across time. Company Wayne McGregor’s dancers periodically animate the installations, their gestures rippling through space like live signals. The works hum with interaction: motion sensors, responsive light, generative sound — each visitor becomes another moving part in McGregor’s evolving ecosystem.
A highlight, OMNI, created with Industrial Light & Magic, fuses choreography with cinematic visual effects, dissolving the line between performer and projection. Random International’s kinetic light works, Future Self and No One is an Island, echo back the human body in minimalist flickers, like ghosts of movement caught in code. Ben Cullen Williams’ A Body for AI visualises the merging of flesh and machine — sculptural, haunting, and strangely tender.
Elsewhere, Deepstaria Void envelops audiences in a meditative field of spatialised sound, reprogrammed in real time by Invisible Mountain’s AI audio engine, Bronze. It’s less an installation than a sensory suspension — a place where you don’t just listen, you feel listening happen.
At the centre sits The Living Archive, McGregor’s decades-long digital memory of dance. It’s a choreographic database alive with motion capture, AI experiments, and rehearsal fragments — a testament to process as performance. Visitors can play with AISOMA, the AI choreographer trained on McGregor’s own movement archive, generating new sequences in dialogue with the past.
Photography by Indigo Lewin threads the exhibition with moments of pause. Her portraits capture dancers mid-breath, off-guard, in the quiet rituals of rehearsal — a tender counterpoint to the digital spectacle elsewhere.
Extending beyond Somerset House, McGregor’s On The Other Earth, presented at Stone Nest in London’s West End, refracts this energy into a radical new form. Within Jeffrey Shaw and Sarah Kenderdine’s 360° stereoscopic LED cylinder, audiences step directly into a post-cinematic choreography — a world of hyperreal dancers from Company Wayne McGregor and the Hong Kong Ballet, surrounded by the sonic universe of Invisible Mountain (Oscar-winner Nicolas Becker and producer LEXX). It’s an entirely new dimension of performance — intimate, disorienting, and utterly transportive. MORE
On the Other Earth has been co-produced between Hong Kong Baptist University and Studio Wayne McGregor, and co-commissioned by La Biennale di Venezia, Danza; Somerset House, London; Tai Kwun – Centre for Heritage and Arts, Hong Kong. It is presented in partnership with Stone Nest, London.
The accompanying public programme keeps the show’s collaborative pulse alive: movement workshops, drawing labs, sensory play sessions, and accessible tours for neurodivergent and visually impaired visitors. It’s a rare example of a high-tech exhibition that’s also deeply human — porous, generous, and grounded in touch.
Curated by Dr Cliff Lauson and Philippa Dunn, Infinite Bodies feels like a fitting celebration of Somerset House itself — an institution built on creative collaboration and constant motion. McGregor doesn’t just show us bodies in space; he redefines what a body can be — infinite, shared, and ever in flux.
Wayne McGregor, Infinite Bodies, Until 22nd February 2026 Somerset House, Embankment Galleries Tickets
£21.50/£19 concessions. Money-saving exhibition tickets combined with catalogue and On the Other Earth also available
Throughout the duration of Infinite Bodies, Company Wayne McGregor will be in residence at Somerset House. At different moments throughout the day, Company Wayne McGregor may activate installations, facilitate interactions with works, or rehearse in a small group. Visitors may have the opportunity to watch or interact with the Company, but their appearances are unscheduled and spontaneous.
Catalogue
The exhibition is accompanied by a fully illustrated publication featuring texts from Wayne McGregor, neuroscientist Anil Seth, writer, broadcaster Aleks Krotoski, poet Mary Jean Chan, and Curators Cliff Lauson and Philippa Dunn. Designed by renowned London-based The BonTon, the publication is the first publication to survey McGregor’s creative and experimental work off the stage.
Shop
There is a curated retail offering, exploring Wayne McGregor’s creative influences, artistic collaborations and innovative practices. With an emphasis on the body, emotive computing and artificial intelligence, the shop offering includes clothing, jewellery, homewares, and stationery. From tech accessories to street wear the Infinite Bodies shop allows visitors to take home elements of Wayne McGregor’s creative world.
There is also an extensive selection of books available for both adults and children which explore the many themes within the exhibition alongside bespoke merchandise from tote bags to posters and exclusive artists’ editions from Ben Cullen Williams, Ravi Deepres and Indigo Lewin.
Wayne McGregor, Channel film
Alongside the exhibition, the digital programme premieres a short form documentary film on Channel, Somerset House’s online curated space for art, ideas and the artistic process.
The film focusses on Wayne McGregor’s practise and creative process, unpacking his long spanning exploration of the body and technology. It features an original interview, unseen behind-the-scenes footage, and unique insight into the development of works that will be presented in the exhibition.
Exhibition Design
London-based architectural practice We Not I, designers of Studio Wayne McGregor at Here East, and collaborators on many of McGregor’s best-known works, apply their distinctive creative visual language to Infinite Bodies.
