Christopher Wheeldon

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Tudor, Millepied, Ratmansky, and Wheeldon at ABT

Expanding the envelope
NEW YORK — American Ballet Theatre devoted only four performances of its two-month spring season at the Metropolitan Opera House to a mixed bill of short ballets.
By MARCIA B. SIEGEL | June 06, 2011

Sustainability

Merce Cunningham in the Park Avenue Armory; Christopher Wheeldon at City Center
If you wanted to know what happened at the Merce Cunningham memorial a week ago Wednesday in the Park Avenue Armory, you could get a thousand answers.
By MARCIA B. SIEGEL | November 04, 2009

State of the art

Boston Ballet’s third ‘Night of Stars’
Maybe it’s the economy, but Boston Ballet’s third-annual season-opening gala was a sober evening, without the orchestral overture that graced the first two affairs.
By JEFFREY GANTZ | October 17, 2008

Winged feet

Dance around town
Dance highlights from the fall season.
By DEBRA CASH | September 11, 2008

Quo vadis?

Boston Ballet’s ‘Next Generation’
“Next Generation” is the kind of ballet-program title that might have you asking yourself what happened to “This Generation."
By JEFFREY GANTZ | March 10, 2008

Twinkle, twinkle

Boston Ballet’s ‘Night of Stars’
For some 15 years now, Boston Ballet has danced like a major international ballet company, and Mikko Nissinen wants to be sure everybody’s aware of that.
By JEFFREY GANTZ | January 31, 2008

Chris and friends

Wheeldon’s Morphoses at City Center
The hype was huge, but Wheeldon seems to have a modest agenda.
By MARCIA B. SIEGEL | October 29, 2007

Two tales retold

NYCB’s The Nightingale and the Rose, ABT’s Sleeping Beauty
The big ballet companies are shackled tighter than ever to the idea of the story ballet.
By MARCIA B. SIEGEL | June 12, 2007

Sight and insight

Boston Ballet’s ‘New Visions’
“New Visions” is the kind of title ballet-company directors come up with for programs that are sort of new and are hoping for vision.
By JEFFREY GANTZ | March 07, 2007

Building blocks

Nacho Duato, Jorma Elo, Marc Bamuthi Joseph
New ballets must be one of the world’s most expensive consumable products.
By MARCIA B. SIEGEL | March 06, 2007

Dancing across the city

Between the opening of the new ICA and Bank of America's de-funding of Celebrity Series, will Boston be a city on the move or on the make in 2007?
The ICA’s Barbara Lee Family Foundation Theater, with its sprung wood dance floor and wrap-around windows framing the harbor, is positioned to become Boston dance’s most significant venue.
By DEBRA CASH | December 27, 2006

Hit and miss

Visiting and home teams swing for the fences
Boston Ballet didn’t need Mark Morris’s blessing in 1999, and it doesn’t need it now.
By JEFFREY GANTZ | March 22, 2006