company name	Genus plc
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company type	Public ()
foundation	1933
location	Basingstoke, UK
key people	John Hawkins, Chairman Richard Wood, CEO
industry	Biotechnology
revenue	£309.9 million (2011)
operating income	£44.8 million (2011)
net income	£29.2 million (2011)
homepage	www.genusplc.com
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Genus plc () is a British-based business selling products manufactured using biotechnology to cattle and pig farmers. It is headquartered in Basingstoke and is a constituent of the FTSE 250 Index.

History

The business has its origins in the former Breeding & Production Division of the Milk Marketing Board which was established in 1933 and broken up in 1994. In 1999 Genus acquired ABS Global, a company founded by J.R. Prentice in the US as the ''Animal Breeding Service'' in 1941 selling the semen of cattle. In 2005 Genus acquired, through the takeover of Sygen International plc, PIC, a company founded by six pork producers in the UK as the ''Pig Improvement Company'' in 1962.

Operations

The Company has two divisions:

ABS - products for cattle

PIC - products for pigs

References

External links

Official site

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name	Wayne McGregor
birth place	Stockport, England
occupation	Choreographer }}

Wayne McGregor CBE (born 1970) is a British choreographer of contemporary modern dance. His work is highly distinctive in its vocabulary of movement, for its integration of dance with film and visual art, and for his active interest and incorporation of computer technology and biological science. He is the Artistic Director of Wayne McGregor Random Dance, Resident Company at Sadler's Wells Theatre in London; the Resident Choreographer of The Royal Ballet, appointed 2006; and the government’s first Youth Dance Champion, appointed 2008. In 2004 McGregor was a Research Fellow in the Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge.

McGregor is a frequent creator of new work for La Scala Theatre Ballet of Milan; Paris Opera Ballet; Nederlands Dans Theatre of La Hague; San Francisco Ballet; Stuttgart Ballet; New York City Ballet; The Australian Ballet of Melbourne; and English National Ballet of London. He served as Movement Director for ''Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.''

Biography

McGregor was born in Stockport, England, in 1970. He studied dance at Bretton Hall College of the University of Leeds and at the José Limon School in New York. In 1992 he was appointed Choreographer-in-Residence at The Place, London, and in the same year he founded his own company, Wayne McGregor Random Dance. McGregor evolved what was to become his distinctive choreographic style on Random Dance.

His choreography is an extrapolation of his own movement vocabulary: "[It] had its origins in McGregor’s own long, lean and supple physique and in his body’s ability to register movement with peculiar sharpness and speed; at one extreme McGregor’s dancing was a jangle of tiny fractured angles, at the other it was a whirl of seemingly boneless fluidity."

It was during his major trilogy The Millennarium (1997), Sulphur 16 (1998) and Aeon (2000) that the company became a byword for its radical approach to new technology – incorporating animation, digital film, 3D architecture, electronic sound and virtual dancers into the live choreography. Collaborations with leading multi-disciplinary artists enriched the company’s futurist aesthetic and dramatically enlarged the possibilities of dance. In 2001 it was invited to be the first resident company at the new Sadler’s Wells. McGregor was named one of "25 to Watch" in 2001 by ''Dance Magazine''.

His career to date has also taken him beyond the conventional stage, choreographing for films such as Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, creating site-specific installations for Southbank Centre’s The Hayward, The Saatchi Gallery, the Houses of Parliament and for the Pompidou Centre in Paris. Collaborations with artists outside of the dance field have included composers Sir John Tavener, Scanner, Plaid and Joby Talbot/The White Stripes, animatronics experts, Jim Henson’s Creature Workshop and neuro-scientists and heart-imaging specialists. McGregor was the first to curate, in September 2008, the 3-day long new festival for the Royal Opera House, Deloitte Ignite. This came 18 months after his successful Royal Opera House production Chroma (2006).

McGregor was appointed Resident Choreographer of The Royal Ballet in December 2006, the first since Kenneth Macmillan. After Chroma, he went on to create the award-winning Infra (premiered at Covent Garden on 13 November 2008) which was followed by a new staging of his La Scala production of the opera Dido and Aeneas -premiered in spring 09 alongside Acis and Galatea (this marked McGregor’s Royal Opera debut). In 2009, McGregor created Limen for The Royal Ballet, and this will be revived at Covent Garden in October 2011. In 2010/2011, McGregor created new work for New York City Ballet, Stuttgart Ballet and Bolshoi Ballet, with a new full-length for Wayne McGregor | Random Dance premiering at Sadler's Wells in December 2010.

McGregor was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2011 New Year Honours for services to dance.

Works

L'Anatomie de la Sensation, pour Francis Bacon

New full-length for the Paris Opera Ballet. The premiere was at Bastille on 2 July 2011 (postponed from the original date of 29 June due to strikes). Inspired by the paintings of Francis Bacon, to music by British composer Mark Antony-Turnage with a set by Chroma designer John Pawson; Lighting Designer Lucy Carter and Costume Designer Moritz Junge - both McGregor regulars - round off the creative team.

Live Fire Exercise

McGregor's newest work for The Royal Ballet - it premiered on 13 May 2011 - a collaboration with the visual artist John Gerrard, a creator of ‘real-time virtual worlds’, and composer Michael Tippett.

Radiohead - Lotus Flower

The video for the song Lotus Flower by Radiohead features lead singer, Thom Yorke, dancing to the choreography of McGregor. The video was made available on the band's YouTube channel on 18 February 2011 and has received more than 11 million hits; it has also spurned almost 100 'copycat' videos.

FAR

Currently touring the UK and internationally, FAR is the newest full-length by McGregor for his own company, Wayne McGregor | Random Dance. It has music by Brian Eno collaborator Ben Frost, lighting by Lucy Carter, costumes by Moritz Junge and set design by the art and design collective Random iNternational (no relation!). 2011 performances include: London, Laban Theatre (9, 10 March) Aldeburgh, Snape Maltings (18, 19 March) Huddersfield, Lawrence Batley (22 March) Winchester Theatre Royal (18, 19 May) Rome, Italy, Auditorium Conciliazione (1 June) Truro, Hall for Cornwall (21 June) Brighton Dome (26 September) Edinburgh Festival Theatre (4, 5 October) Belfast Festival (14.15 October)

Yantra

McGregor's third work for Stuttgart Ballet - following 'Nautilus' (2003) and 'EDEN|EDEN' (2005). Music by Esa-Pekka Salonen.

Outlier

McGregor's debut for New York City Ballet, with music by British composer Thomas Ades. It premiered at the Lincoln Center on 14 May 2010

Entity

''Entity'' is an hour-long dance piece for Wayne McGregor | Random Dance featuring 10 dancers and soundscape created by Jon Hopkins (Coldplay and Massive Attack collaborator) and award-winning composer Joby Talbot. Entity premiered at the Sadler's Wells Theatre, London in April 2008. In December 2010, Entity became the first full length dance performance available on Apple's iTunes video download service.

Dyad 1909

One of two ballets that McGregor created to celebrate the centenary of the Ballets Russes; the other is ''Dyad 1929'', for The Australian Ballet. ''Dyad 1909'', for Wayne McGregor Random Dance, is inspired by Ernest Shackleton’s Nimrod expedition to the South Pole in 1909, the year that the Ballets Russes was founded. The creative team includes the acclaimed artists and filmmakers Jane and Louise Wilson, longstanding lighting designer Lucy Carter and costume designer Moritz Junge. Icelandic composer Olafur Arnalds provides a newly commissioned score combining piano, strings and electronics.

Limen

''Limen'' is McGregor’s most recent work for The Royal Ballet. It premiered at The Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, in November 2009. It uses the classical vocabulary of 15 dancers, including Edward Watson, Leanne Benjamin, Steven McRae, Sarah Lamb and Eric Underwood. The women dance en pointe lending the work a more classical air than MacGregor's previous Royal Ballet commissions. Its centrepiece is an ethereal pas de deux, danced in bright spotlight against a black backdrop set to a futuristically raw sounds of Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho. McGregor says that Limen - a word that relates to ideas of limits and thresholds - is a meditation on ‘thresholds of life and death, darkness and light, reality and fantasy’. Such borderline territory is akin to that of the work of Japanese contemporary conceptual artist Tatsuo Miyajima, with whom McGregor has collaborated on the sets.

Dido and Aeneas / Acis and Galatea

A new double bill of Purcell and Handel, conceived, directed and choreographed by Royal Ballet Resident Choreographer, Wayne McGregor. The production uniquely combines the forces of both The Royal Opera and The Royal Ballet companies. McGregor’s Dido and Aeneas is based on his production at La Scala, Milan, in 2006. Here it is paired with Handel’s pastoral masque Acis and Galatea. Lead singers include Sarah Connolly (Dido) and Danielle de Niese (Galatea), making her Covent Garden debut. For Acis, the dancers include Edward Watson, Lauren Cuthbertson and Eric Underwood. Set designs are by Hildegard Bechtler; costume designs are by Fotini Dimou and lighting design is by Lucy Carter; The Orchestra of The Age Of Enlightenment is conducted by Christopher Hogwood. Visual animation of a horse, representing the journey of Dido and Aeneas into the underworld, was produced by Mark Hatchard of Hotbox Studios.

Infra

''Infra'' created for The Royal Ballet and premiered in November 2008 at the Royal Opera House. The set for the show included a 18 metre LCD display with animations by British artist Julian Opie who also designed the set. The music for the show was by composer Max Richter. The show had a cast of 12 dancers from the Royal Ballet and also a number of extras with short non-dancing roles.

The BBC aired a special one hour feature which documented the making of Infra, and also showed the work in full.

Chroma

Chroma is McGregor’s 2006 award-winning dance piece for The Royal Ballet. The score, drawn from compositions and arrangements by Joby Talbot and his arrangements of music by The White Stripes, is paired with stark minimalist designs by architect John Pawson.

Awards

2010: Critics Circle National Dance Award for ''Infra'' (Best Choreography - Classical)

2009: International Theatre Institute's Excellence In International Dance

2009: Ballet Tanz's Choreographer Of The Year

2009: Movimentos Award for ''Entity''

2009: Prix Benois de la Danse for ''Infra''

2008: South Bank Show Award for ''Entity'' and ''Infra''

2007: Critics Circle National Dance Award for ''Chroma'' (Best Choreography – Classical)

2007: Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Dance Production for ''Chroma''

2007: South Bank Show Awardfor The Royal Ballet triple bill which featured ''Chroma''

2003: Time Out Live Awards Outstanding Choreography

2001: Time Out Live Awards Outstanding Achievement in Dance Award

Choreographic style

McGregor’s choreography is characterised by dynamic, sharp, often fragmented and often sinuously fluid movement. This movement vocabulary has its origins in McGregor’s own long, lean and supple physique and in his body’s ability to register movement with peculiar sharpness and speed.

Fascination with technology and science

McGregor started playing with computers when he was seven and it was natural for him to incorporate the cyber world into his own choreography. Collaborating with state-of-the-art designers, he experimented with projecting computer generated images onto the stage. In ''Sulphur 16'' (1998) his dancers were dwarfed by the presence of a shimmering virtual giant and danced with a company of digital figures who wove and shimmered among them. In ''Aeon'' (2000) digitally created landscapes transported the dancers to what seemed like other dimensions and other worlds.

On specific occasions McGregor has used technology to alter the conditions under which his work is viewed. ''53 Bytes'' (1997) was created for simultaneous performance by two sets of dancers in Berlin and Canada and it was watched by audiences in both countries by live satellite link. In 2000 McGregor aimed for a wider global public by transmitting a live performance of his ''Trilogy Installation'' over the internet.

Wayne McGregor Random Dance has been the vehicle for McGregor’s ongoing fascination with the mechanisms of the human body. In ''Amu'' (2005) he explored the functions and the symbolism of the heart, in ''Ataxia'' (2004) the connection between brain and body movement and in ''Entity'' (2008) the links between artificial intelligence and choreography.

During ''Entity'' rehearsals, he and the dancers worked alongside six international cognitive scientists and technologists from esteemed institutes including University College London, University of Cambridge, University of California, San Diego and Imperial College London. In January 2009 they traveled to University of California, San Diego and created a new piece of work under ‘lab’ conditions, Dyad 1909; fueling the search for new creative decisions on the part of McGregor and new findings in the brain/body relationship for the scientists.

Credits

Dance performance

''Live Fire Exercise'' for Royal Ballet (2011)

''FAR'' for Wayne McGregor | Random Dance (2010)

''Outlier'' for New York City Ballet (2010)

''Yantra'' for Stuttgart Ballet (2010)

''Limen'' for The Royal Ballet (2009)

''Dyad 1909'' for Wayne McGregor | Random Dance (2009)

''Dyad 1929'' for The Australian Ballet (2009)

''Infra'' for The Royal Ballet (2008)

''Renature'' for NDT1 (2008)

''Entity'' for Wayne McGregor | Random Dance (2008)

''Nimbus'' for The Royal Ballet (2008)

''Genus'' for Paris Opera Ballet (2007)

''[meməri]'' for D.A.N.C.E. (2007)

''Chroma'' for The Royal Ballet (2006)

''Eden|Eden'' for San Francisco Ballet (2006)

''Skindex'' for NDT1 (2006)

''Ossein'' for Wayne McGregor | Random Dance (2006)

''Amu@Durham'' for Wayne McGregor | Random Dance at Durham Cathedral (2006)

''Engram'' for the Royal Ballet (2005)

''Amu'' for Wayne McGregor | Random Dance (2005)

''Eden|Eden'' for Stuttgart Ballet (2005)

''AtaXia'' for Wayne McGregor | Random Dance (2004)

''Series'' for Wayne McGregor | Random Dance at Houses of Parliament, London (2004)

''Dragonfly'' for National Glass Centre, Sunderland (2004)

''Qualia'' for The Royal Ballet (2003)

''Xenathra'' for Wayne McGregor, Dance Umbrella (2003)

''Binocular'' for Adam Cooper Dance Company (2003)

''Polar Sequences'' for Wayne McGregor | Random Dance (2003)

''Nautilus'' for Stuttgart Ballet (2003)

''Bio-logical'' for BodyCraze, Selfridges London/Manchester (2003)

''2 Human'' for English National Ballet (2003)

''Alpha'' for Wayne McGregor | Random Dance (2003)

''PreSentient'' for Rambert Dance Company(2002)

''Game of Halves'' for National Youth Dance Wales (2002)

''BodyScript'' for Connect with Sadler’s Wells (2002)

''Phase Space'' for the Gothenburg Ballet/Random Dance (2002)

''L.O.V.E'' for Imagination Frankfurt (2002)

''Nemesis'' for Wayne McGregor | Random Dance (2002)

''digit01'' for Wayne McGregor | Random Dance (2001)

''HIVE'' for National Youth Dance Wales (2001)

''11 Digital Mantras'' for The Roundhouse London (2001)

''Castlescape'' for East London Dance (2001)

''Codex'' for First Class Air Male - Dance East (2001)

''detritus'' for Rambert Dance Company (2001)

''brainstate'' for Wayne McGregor | Random Dance and The Royal Ballet (2001)

''Velociraptor'' for Dance East/Bury Festival (2001)

''Symbiont(s)'' for The Royal Ballet (2001)

''Aeon'' for Wayne McGregor | Random Dance (2000)

''Fleur de Peux'' for Vivianna Durante, Royal Ballet (2000)

''Telenoia'' for Canary Wharf (2000)

''The Field'' for East London Dance/Greenwich & Docklands International Festival (2000)

''net/work Narrative(s)'' for South East Dance Agency/Brighton International Festival (2000)

''Equation'' for the Centre George Pompidou, Paris (1999)

''Zero Hertz'' for Cork Opera House, Ireland (1999)

''In:terplay'' (Bruce Nauman) for the Hayward Gallery, London (1998)

''Sulphur 16'' for Wayne McGregor | Random Dance (1998)

''Intertense'' for Shobana Jeyasingh Dance Company (1998)

''Medusa'' for Olympic Ballet Company, Milan (1998)

''Trial By Jury'' for Melbourne International Festival (1998)

''Angel'' for the Natural History Museum, London (1998)

''Scottish Opera/Random Collaboration'' for the Galleryof Modern Art, Glasgow (1998)

''Pointe'' for the Saatchi Gallery, London (1997)

''Dance Of The Broadband'' for Le Groupe de la Place Royale, Ottawa (1997)

''The Millennarium'' for Wayne McGregor | Random Dance (1997)

''Skinned Prey'' for 4D (London Contemporary Dance School) (1997)

''x2'' for the Royal Museum, Edinburgh (1997)

''Chameleon'' for the Barbican Centre, London (1997)

''Black on White'' for the South Bank Centre Ballroom, London (1997)

''S.I.N.'' for Shed O, London Docklands (1997)

''Neurotransmission'' for Snape Maltings Concert Hall, Aldeburgh (1997)

''Encoder'' for Shobana Jeyasingh’s Away Game (1996)

''Bach Suite'' for Crusaid Gala (Olivier Theatre, RNT) (1996)

''Ventolin'' for West Yorkshire Playhouse (1996)

''Esc...otherspace'' for Birmingham Hippodrome (1996)

''8 Legs of the Devil'' for Wayne McGregor | Random Dance (1996)

''Urban Savage'' for Ricochet Dance Company (1996)

''Vulture (Reverse Effect)'' commissioned by Cultural Industry (1996)

''Cybergeneration'' for the Belfast International Festival at Queens (1996)

''Installation over 4'' for Selfridges’ Gallery Window

''World Disabled Games (opening)'' for Birmingham International Stadium

''Match Half'' for Nottingham Forrest Stadium

''Slam'' for The Arches, Glasgow (1996)

''Dragonfly'' for the Alternative Hair Show, Drury Lane (1995)

''CeBit Dances'' for Imagination/Ericsson, Hanover (1995)

''Cyborg'' for Wayne McGregor | Random Dance (1995)

''Jacob’s Membrane'' for Wayne McGregor | Random Dance (1995)

''For Bruising Archangel'' for Wayne McGregor | Random Dance (1995)

''AnArkos'' for Wayne McGregor | Random Dance (1995)

''Sever'' for Wayne McGregor | Random Dance (1995)

''9.7 recurring 2%Black'' for National Youth Dance Company (1994)

''Artificial Intelligence'' for National Youth Dance Company (1994)

''Cyberdream'' for The Boys Project, The Place (1994)

''White Out'' for The Boys Project, The Place (1994)

''Vulcan'' for Swindon Youth Dance Company (1994)

''Labrax'' for Wayne McGregor | Random Dance (1994)

''GCSE National Set Study'' for Northern Examinations & Assessment Board (1994)

''Xeno 1 2 3'' for Wayne McGregor | Random Dance (1993)

Film/TV

''Lotus Flower'' for Radiohead (2011)

''La Danse'' by Frederick Wiseman, Zipporah Films (2009)

''In The Spirit of Diaghilev'' for BBC4 (2009)

''The South Bank Show, Wayne McGregor:Across The Threshold'' for ITV1 (2009)

''Infra'' for BBC2 (2008)

''Entity'' for Arte (2008)

''Tremor'' for Channel 4 (2005)

''Harry Potter and The Goblet of Fire'' for Warner Bros (Dir. Mike Newell) (2004)

''Dance USA'' for BBC 4 (2004)

''Dice Life'' for Channel 4 (2004)

''Chrysalis'' for Arte (2002)

''The Dancers Body'' for BBC 2 (2002)

''Nemesis'' for BBC4 (2002)

''Physical Dysfunctional'' for BBC Knowledge (2001)

''Symbiont(s)'' for BBC2 (2001)

''Horizone'' for Dance for the Camera (BBC & ACE) (2001)

''Medusa'' for RaiUno International, Italy

''Bent'' for Channel Four Films, Sarah Radclyffe Prod. (1996)

''Tomorrows World Live'' commissioned for NESTA

''Broadband Documentary'' for Discovery Channel, USA

''The Last Siren'' commissioned by RaiUno International

''Redoxon Commercial'' for Arden Sutherland Dodd

''Eurostar Commercial'' for Arden Sutherland Dodd (1998)

Theatre

''Breakfast at Tiffany's'' for Theatre Royal Haymarket (2009)

''Fram'' for the National Theatre (2008)

''Ring Around The Moon'' for Playhouse Theatre, West End (2007)

''Kirikou & Karaba'' for Casino de Paris (2007)

''Much Ado About Nothing'' for the Peter Hall Company (2006)

''You Can Never Tell'' for the Peter Hall Company (2005)

''Aladdin'' for the Old Vic (2004/5)

''Cloaca'' for the Old Vic (2004)

''Woman in White'' for The Palace Theatre (2004/5)

''A Little Night Music'' for the National Theatre (1995)

''Cleansed'' for the Royal Court Theatre

''Antony and Cleopatra'' for the National Theatre

Opera

''Dido and Aeneas'' for Royal Opera (2009)

''Acis and Galatea'' for Royal Opera (2009)

''Dido and Aeneas'' for La Scala (2006)

''The Midsummer Marriage'' for Chicago Lyric Opera (2005)

''La Bohème'' for Scottish National Opera

''Manon'' for English Touring Opera

''Hansel and Gretel'' for Scottish National Opera

''Rinaldo'' for Grange Park Opera

''The Mikado'' for Grange Park Opera

''Salome'' for English National Opera

''The Marriage of Figaro'' for Scottish Opera

''Orpheus et Eurydice'' for Scottish Opera

''Orpheus et Eurydice'' for Scottish Opera Go Round

References

External links

Random Dance

Royal Opera House

Interview with Wayne McGregor, IAS, University of Minnesota, September 2009

Hotbox Studios

THE OBSERVER, 11 November 2009

THE GUARDIAN, 9 November 2009

THE NEW YORK TIMES, 28 November 2008

THE SUNDAY TIMES CULTURE, 20 April 2008

THE TELEGRAPH, 14 April 2008

THE GUARDIAN, 11 April 2008

THE FINANCIAL TIMES, feature about Wayne McGregor, 5 April 2008

TIME MAGAZINE, feature about Wayne McGregor, 2 April 2008

THE EVENING STANDARD, 1 April 2008

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name	James Genus
background	non_vocal_instrumentalist
birth date	January 20, 1966
Birth place	Hampton, Virginia United States
instrument	Guitar, Bass guitar, upright bass
genre	Jazz
occupation	Musician
years active	1987 - Current
associated acts	Saturday Night Live Band, Out of the Blue
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James Genus (January 20, 1966) is an American jazz bassist. He plays both electric bass guitar and upright bass and currently plays in the Saturday Night Live Band. Genus has performed as a session musician and sideman throughout his career, with an impressive list of artists with whom he has worked.

Genus was born in Hampton, Virginia. He began on guitar at age six and switched to bass at 13. He studied at Virginia Commonwealth University from 1983 to 1987 and played for a summer at Busch Gardens Williamsburg. Then moved to New York City, where he quickly began working with many noted players on the city's jazz scene. He has played with Out of the Blue (1988–89), Horace Silver (1989), Roy Haynes and Don Pullen (1989–91), Nat Adderley (1990), Greg Osby and New York Voices (1990–91), Jon Faddis (1991), T.S. Monk (1991), Benny Golson (1991), Dave Kikoski (1991), Bob Berg (1991–96), Geoffrey Keezer (1992), Lee Konitz (1992), Michael Brecker (1992–96), Bob James (since 1994), Michel Camilo (since 1995), Elysian Fields (since 1995), Branford Marsalis (1996), Chick Corea (1996), Dave Douglas (1996), Uri Caine (1997), Global Theory (1997), Bill Evans (saxophonist) (2005) and Herbie Hancock (2008).

Discography

As Sideman

With Don Pullen

''Random Thoughts'' (Blue Note, 1990)

References

Mark Gilbert, "James Genus". ''Grove Jazz'' online.

External links

Conversation With James Genus, 4/01/2009

Category:American jazz double-bassists Category:American jazz bass guitarists Category:Musicians from Virginia Category:1966 births Category:Living people Category:People from Hampton, Virginia

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