christopher wheeldon especially; Alternate Universe - Ballet; freddie dances for the royal ballet; jim is a composer; Violinist; and conductor; there is nothing that boy can't do; this is actually a drabble but it's beautiful; Rehearsals; freddie listening to jim play; fluorescent verse one shot; set about 6 months after the end of fluorescent Works Upcoming Bio Press Contact Open Menu Close Menu. Acclaimed choreographer Christopher Wheeldon returns to Boston this spring to stage the Company premiere of his A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Meet the dynamic choreographer and get excited to see his work on stage. Strapless, The Royal Ballet, Royal Opera House, review: Lacking personality of Christopher Wheeldon’s other works. He is known for his work on Center Stage (2000), An American in Paris - The Musical (2018) and Alice i Eventyrland (2020). His productions have almost always received high marks from critics, and ballet companies across the country consider it an honor to work with the thirty two year old. The two new works that premiered there, one by Jamar Roberts and the other by Christopher Wheeldon, might easily be translated to a live performance – in fact, I hope they will be when things return to normal, as they will one day. Called ballet's hottest choreographer in 2004, Christopher Wheeldon has choreographed more than thirty ballets in five years. Home Works Upcoming Bio Press Contact Open Menu Close Menu. He's a natural-born choreographer. Christopher Wheeldon: Center Stage. Regarded as one of Wheeldon’s breakthrough contemporary works, Polyphonia’s four couples wind their way through ten eerily melodious Ligeti selections, including music made famous by Stanley Kubrick’s Eyes Wide Shut. The rest of this all-Wheeldon programme is very much stronger. It was announced that Christopher Wheeldon was the winner of both the Best Classical Choreography award and a Benois de la Danse in the Choreographers’ category in 2015. In November 2006 Wheeldon announced the formation of Morphoses/The Wheeldon Company , a transatlantic company with a US base at New York City Center and in the UK at Sadler's Wells Theatre, London. 1. As of May, 2003, Wheeldon had composed at least 23 works. Works for NYCB include Polyphonia (London Critics’ Circle Award and Olivier Award for Best New Dance Production) and The Nightingale and the Rose. This chapter examines Christopher Wheeldon’s British works in the light of his two formative training and performing experiences, with The Royal Ballet and with the New York City Ballet. Christopher Wheeldon. Christopher Wheeldon, Artistic Associate of The Royal Ballet, created his adaptation of Shakespeare’s late great romance The Winter’s Tale for The Royal Ballet in 2014. Comparing the aesthetics of these companies in the 1980s and 1990s, it examines how Wheeldon consciously drew on both influences: American speed and attack, and British lyricism and drama. Christopher Wheeldon was born as Christopher Peter Wheeldon. As a kid, Wheeldon spent his summers directing homegrown performances with neighborhood friends.
