Body doubles for the ABBAtars in the show on the red carpet ahead of the ABBA Voyage opening performance at the Abba Arena in Stratford.
May 26th, 2022
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ABBA VOYAGE PREMIERE POST (no spoilers)
Still walking on air after what can only be described as a magical night. Nearly two years after we were cast to be the body doubles of the greatest pop group there ever was, we got to see the result of so much hard work. There was A LOT of tears and A LOT of joy.
It has been the privilege of my life to be a small part of this project, which I cannot overstate is the result of a HUGE, COLLABORATIVE effort by THOUSANDS of people, led by some of the most fearsome creative minds in the industry. Being in the movement department, those minds for us were @studiowaynemcgregor and @dowling5713 . We got to spend MONTHS working with them, trying to unlock what has never been done on this scale before, attempting to put ABBA's stage presence in a bottle. Recreating each of their movement, watching hundreds of hours of footage. I have learned so much from Wayne, Sarah and their team. I love them dearly and hope it's not the last we work together.
Then there are the other doubles. A bunch of 8 youngsters, dancers, musicians, composers from all across the globe, snatched from the jaws of lockdown to be thrust into this crazy, secret thing. We lived together and relied on each other to find a way to navigate this whirlwind, and became fast friends along the way. I know you're reading this. I love you all so much.
May 29, 2022
Nearly two years after being whisked away from lockdown to be part of #abbatar crew, I've seen for the first time what @abba had in store for us.
"A concert like no other" is a very appropriate tagline for this. You won't have seen anything like it. Not to that scale.
I've been aware of the setlist and some of the effects from the presentation we had in the rehearsal room with @studiowaynemcgregor and @baillie_walsh back in 2020 and I was still caught off-guard, still in awe of how they managed to pull it off.
To see the huge crowd lose their minds at the songs and effects was very special, especially after the tough times we've had. Special mention to the live band who were on fire!!!
This job gave me some amazing friends, made me grow as a performer and musician and allowed me to meet my idols. To be a tiny part of it brings me so much pride;
But in that room, I was no longer an abbatar. I was just one of 3000 fans grateful to be alive in the same timeline as ABBA.
May 29, 2022
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Back in the summer of 2020 I whipped off my PPE and headed to London to work for ABBA!
Wow. How to put any of this in to words!? I cannot express how grateful I am to have had such an incredible experience and to work with such wonderful talented people to bring the ABBA voyage show to life! To see it last week sat between the real Abba and the king of Sweden was just the most mental thing ever, and I’m proud to say the show is 100% INCREDIBLE!
I want to thank @studiowaynemcgregor and
And, here’s to the most amazing colleagues, friends and body doubles I could ever wish to meet!! @sonya_with_a_why @urpi_lc @imleoelso @livausten @jameswpattison @willycbob @allmanttuff . Please enjoy some snaps of us in rehearsals, donning the red carpet and being mistaken for the blossoms!
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ABBA Voyage - Wayne McGregor
Wayne McGregor on Hell, the human body — and Abba
The choreographer talks about his ambitious new production The Dante Project — and next year’s highly anticipated reunion show
© Alastair Levy
I grew up in Stockport in the 1970s and I pretty much learned to dance to Abba songs
There is little sense of inertia around McGregor’s numerous other activities, now that the brakes on cultural undertakings are easing. This week there is also the premiere of No One is an Island, by his company Studio Wayne McGregor in collaboration with Random International, at Frieze London. The show concerns the relationship between movement and technology, another favourite and fertile area for McGregor’s choreography.
It is billed as a “future-oriented reflection on how the human mind empathises with artificial intelligence and automated processes”, featuring two dancers and a “robotic instrument”. Like many of McGregor’s works, it flirts with the barriers between abstraction and figuration and searches for beauty in the interaction between man and machine. He bridles when his work is described, as it has been, as cold and impersonal. “We are not trying to take people out of the equation,” he says firmly. “We are looking at the supplementation of human endeavour.”
Abba in the motion-capture suits used for their forthcoming London show, choreographed by Wayne McGregor
Seemingly a million miles away from that area of intellectual inquiry, is the return of Abba. McGregor has been charged with choreographing the group’s rapturously anticipated comeback concert Voyage next May, to be performed by the band members’ digital avatars at London’s Olympic Park. He is sworn to secrecy on the details, but becomes the closest he gets to puppyish as he talks about the project. “I grew up in Stockport in the 1970s and I pretty much learned to dance to Abba songs. I did my ballroom lessons and my Latin American lessons to Abba songs. So I have a very long connection with the music.”
He describes the “honour” of being asked to work with the group. “That music is so joyful, and so apposite for right now. And that outpouring of love [when the concert and album were announced]! It felt like all my worlds had come together.
“To move between these different worlds,” he says more seriously, “is really important. Being challenged to do things in different ways, that pushes you. It makes you stay . . . ” — he snaps his fingers — “awake! I love that.”
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