Q&A: Wayne McGregor

The choreographer is working on a new ballet for this year’s Manchester international festival, titled Tree of Codes. Here he talks about working with artist Olafur Eliasson and musician Jamie xx and moulding literature into new forms• The Guardian is the festival’s media partnerIn Jonathan Safran Foer’s Tree of Codes, he took Bruno Schulz’s book, Street of Crocodiles, and physically cut words out from the text to leave a new story on the page. Why did you think that would be a good st