Christopher Wheeldon
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At the end of my career ... if I can look back and say Lauren was my muse, I'll consider myself very lucky.
It was, 'Let's play around and discover who this character is.'
We had a huge success (in 2011) with the Joffrey Ballet ... We had over 2,000 people buy tickets, and they said, we want to see great, American and international ballet companies. So here are three huge, famous, international ballet companies. That’s a giant step for us.More quotes »
Around the web
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My Muse and me
painter Chantal Joffe (right) with Megan Watkins. Photograph: Felix Clay for the Guardian In 2010, when choreographer Christopher Wheeldon began working on his acclaimed version of Alice in Wonderland for the Royal Ballet, he had just one ballerina in mind from Guardian Unlimited Read more »
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Alvin Ailey, Joffrey and ABT part of Music Center's 2012-13 season
Wheeldon’s acclaimed version of “Alice in Wonderland,” danced by the National Ballet of Canada, plus an array of repertory programs by Alvin Ailey, the Joffrey Ballet and the American Ballet Theatre, are among the highlights of the 2012-2013 Music Center season from Los Angeles Times Read more »
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Royal Ballet triple bill – review
Royal Ballet's current triple bill looks like a mission statement. A tried and tested work by Christopher Wheeldon, a boundary-probing experiment by Wayne McGregor and a vivid new story-ballet from young gun Liam Scarlett. This is the triumvirate of choreographers from Guardian Unlimited Read more »
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Rap, murder and classic dance share Royal Ballet triple bill
Ballet, Carbon Life/Sweet Violets/Polyphonia, is a triple bill by three celebrated British choreographers, Liam Scarlett, Christopher Wheeldon and Wayne McGregor. Royal Ballet director Monica Mason, in her final season with the company before retiring, commissioned from The First Post Read more »
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Carbon Life/Sweet Violets/Polyphonia, Royal Opera House, London
Liam Scarlett’s Sweet Violets is a mess of bad and good ideas about Walter Sickert, Jack the Ripper and an artist at work. Christopher Wheeldon’s 2001 Polyphonia , which opens the evening, is sleek and just right. Danced to a Rachmaninoff trio, Sweet Violets from The Independent Read more »
