Go behind the scenes with the ILM team that collaborated with Sir Wayne McGregor on Omni, a beautifully-rendered, screen-based dance presented at life-size that is part of the Infinite Bodies exhibit currently at Somerset House.
The first thing visitors encounter inside Wayne McGregor: Infinite Bodies at London’s Somerset House is darkness. A vast LED screen fills the room, its shifting light reflected across the faces of those watching. The space is quiet at first, then sound begins to breathe into the room. Two figures slowly emerge. Their bodies twist, merge, and reform, suspended in a deep digital expanse that feels both intimate and endless. It is OMNI, a collaboration between choreographer Wayne McGregor and Industrial Light & Magic, and it sets the emotional, thematic, and sensory tone for everything that follows.
As an entry point, OMNI does not explain itself in conventional terms. It does not offer narrative, character, or spectacle in a familiar cinematic sense. Instead, it presents presence. Motion without edges. Energy without beginning or end. Viewers gather instinctively. Some stand for seconds. Others for many minutes. The work opens and closes in cycles, dissolving into darkness before returning again, as if inhaling and exhaling. It is an installation that encourages stillness before it encourages movement (more)