Christopher Wheeldon

Thank God It's Thursday: The High Strung Plays Guantanamo Bay, Beyoncé Discounts What You Pay, and Woody Allen's So Far Away

Mike Ragogna | Posted 06.27.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Alessandra Ferri, Broken Social Scene, Charity, Spoletto 52, Woody Allen, Gitmo, Guantanamo, Jacksonville, Derek Berk, Los Campesinons, Pina Bausch, Alexei Ratmansky, Tanztheater Wuppertal, London, England, The High Strung, Guantanamo Bay, Ticketmaster, Feeding America, Wayne McGregor, Robert Wilson, Super Furry Animals, Park the Van Records, Detroit, Florida, Memorial Day, Krapp's Last Tape, Library, Beyoncé, General Mills, Madison Sqare Garden, American Ballet Theatre, Christopher Wheeldon, Las Vegas, Thierry Mugler, New York, Giorgio Ferrara, Festival Dei 2 Mondi, David Newfield, telegraph.co.uk, Hamburger Helper, O2, Gianni Schicchi, Entertainment News, Samuel Beckett, O2 Arena, Spoletto, Zagreb, Entertainment News
Mike Ragogna

This installment of Thank God It's Thursday plucks some recent press releases (left mostly intact) that might make you say "OMG" or "WTF", or possibly, "Swear you'll never, ever do this again."

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Christopher Wheeldon is Trying Very Hard to Make Ballet Hip, Sexy and Accessible, But Will He Be Successful?

Tonya Plank | Posted 11.07.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Ballet, Beatriz Stix-Brunell, Maria Kowroski, Lightfoot Leon, Drew Jacoby, Frederick Ashton, Fashion, Rubinald Pronk, Wendy Whelan, Les Ballets Russes, Christopher Wheeldon, Emily Molnar, New York City Ballet, Morphoses, Entertainment News
Tonya Plank

Of all ballet artists, Wheeldon one of the most sought-after choreographers in the world these days and seems to be trying the hardest to bring ballet back.

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Bless This House

Norman MacAfee | Posted 09.20.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Leos Janacek, Dmitri Shostakovich, Tyler Angle, Ballet, Michelle Williams, Bruno Moretti, Alexei Ratmansky, Salzburg Festival, Brussels Opera House La Monnaie, The Rake’s Progress, W. H. Auden, Robert Wilson, Ashley Bouder, Paris Opera, Philip Glass, Igor Stravinsky, Benjamin Britten, GéRard Mortier, Opera, George Balanchine, Charles Wuorinen, Peter Martins, Film, Christopher Wheeldon, Peter Gelb, Rudolph Bing, Goeran Gentele, The Markopulos Case, Pierre Boulez, Mauro Bigonzetti, Brokeback Mountain, Metropolitan Opera House, Pelléas Et MéLisande, Einstein on the Beach, Wendy Whelan, Death in Venice, Heath Ledger, Gesamtkunstwerk, Debussy, Entertainment News
Norman MacAfee

The New York State Theater at Lincoln Center, home of the New York City Opera, is dark as it undergoes a year of renovation. It is a house of past and perhaps future artistic importance in two art forms.

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Is Ballet Dead? Never! New York City Ballet Presents an Enticing Evening of New Work

Tonya Plank | Posted 06.18.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: River of Light, Ballet, Rococo Variations, Peter Martins, Christopher Wheeldon, Alexei Ratmansky, Gonzalo Garcia, Mauro Bigonzetti, Maria Kowroski, Benjamin Millepied, Ashley Bouder, Contemporary Ballet, Wendy Whelan, Concerto DSCH, New York City Ballet, Joaquin De Luz, Oltremare, Dancers, Nycb, Ballerina, Dance, Theater Review, Entertainment News
Tonya Plank

I had a wonderful night at New York City Ballet the other night. The program, titled "Here and Now", focused on some of the company's newest works, and was kind of a celebration of the future, of 21st Century ballet.

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