Christopher Wheeldon has a guilty secret. “I grew up listening to Phantom of the Opera,” he says. “As an 11-year-old, those big blockbuster musicals were everything. Seeing Starlight Express: it was ...

Anyone who has been to the Joffrey Ballet’s Nutcracker in the last decade has seen choreographer Christopher Wheeldon’s work in full artistic force. Now, the prolific English dancemaker, who is known ...

Christopher Wheeldon’s lengthy “The Winter’s Tale,” a ballet based on the Shakespeare play, is filled with bad behavior but also love and forgiveness. By Gia Kourlas Amy Sherman-Palladino’s new series ...

With a repertory so vast, it is not uncommon for dancers to perform in all the works on a New York City Ballet program. Watch as Christopher Wheeldon remembers figuring in a new kind of triple bill ...

In a bold new commission for The Australian Ballet, Oscar© draws on the eventful life and unforgettable writings of the great Irish humourist Oscar Wilde. The eyes of the ballet world will be on the ...

Precocious and prolific, the British choreographer Christopher Wheeldon, at 38, is world renowned. Many on the ballet scene believe he’s the one who will assume George Ballanchine’s mantel and lead ...

Saturday’s season-launching matinée marked the 62nd performance of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland at Covent Garden – which, for a work created as recently as 2011, is quite something. If that ...

Coded into many modern dancers’ genetic makeup is the desire to choreograph and to form a company devoted to that work. That the enterprise may be small-scale and possibly poverty-stricken is no ...

Wheeldon had been captivated by Manning’s paintings when he’d visited “Both Sides Now,” her debut exhibition with the Pace Gallery, at the Los Angeles space, in the fall of last year. Mesmerized by ...

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