Morphoses is a ballet company co-founded in 2007 by Christopher Wheeldon

Christopher Wheeldon

Christopher Wheeldon is an international choreographer of contemporary ballet. Born in Somerset, England, to an engineer and a physical therapist, Wheeldon began training to be a ballet dancer at the age of 8. He attended the Royal Ballet School between the ages of 11 and 18...

 and Lourdes Lopez. Morphoses is a guest resident company at the New York City Center

New York City Center

New York City Center is a 2,750-seat Moorish Revival theater located at 131 West 55th Street between 6th and 7th Avenues in Manhattan, New York City. It is one block south of Carnegie Hall...

 and at Sadler's Wells Theatre

Sadler's Wells Theatre

Sadler's Wells Theatre is a performing arts venue located in Rosebery Avenue, Clerkenwell in the London Borough of Islington. The present day theatre is the sixth on the site since 1683. It consists of two performance spaces: a 1,500 seat main auditorium and the Lilian Baylis Studio, with extensive...

 in London. It was known as Morphoses/The Wheeldon Company, until February, 2010, when Wheeldon announced that he was leaving Morphoses.

Polyphonia

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/03/arts/dance/03morp.htmlNY Times by Roslyn Sulcas

Roslyn Sulcas

Roslyn Sulcas is a dance critic for the New York Times. She grew up in Cape Town, South Africa, and studied English literature in college, receiving a post-graduate degree from York University in England. While finishing her thesis she lived in Paris, where she began writing for the British Dance...

, October 2, 2008]

• • Christopher Wheeldon
    Christopher Wheeldon
    Christopher Wheeldon is an international choreographer of contemporary ballet. Born in Somerset, England, to an engineer and a physical therapist, Wheeldon began training to be a ballet dancer at the age of 8. He attended the Royal Ballet School between the ages of 11 and 18...
    
    ’s choreography
  • Ligeti's
    György Ligeti
    György Sándor Ligeti was a composer of contemporary classical music. Born in a Hungarian Jewish family in Transylvania, Romania, he briefly lived in Hungary before becoming an Austrian citizen.-Early life:...
    
     eponymous music
  • costumes by Holly Hynes
    Holly Hynes
    Holly Hynes is an accomplished costume designer with over 170 ballets to her credit, including more than 60 at New York City Ballet. Ms. Hynes' designs are also on view in companies around the world, including American Ballet Theatre; National Ballet of Canada; The Kirov Ballet of St...
    
    
  • lighting by Mark Stanley

• Wendy Whelan
  Wendy Whelan
  Wendy Whelan is a principal dancer with the New York City Ballet and guest artist with Morphoses/The Wheeldon Company.-Early life:A native of Louisville, Kentucky , she began her dance training with local teacher Virginia Wooton at the age of three...
  
  
• Tiler Peck
• Beatriz Stix-Brunell
  Beatriz Stix-Brunell
  Beatriz Stix-Brunell is a ballet dancer presently dancing with The Royal Ballet. She previously danced with Morphoses.Stix-Brunell trained at the School of American Ballet from 2000 to 2005, when she was admitted to L'Ecole de Danse de l'Opera de Paris where she danced in the Demonstrations de...
  
  
• Teresa Reichlen

• Tyler Angle
• Gonzalo Garcia
• Craig Hall
• Jason Fowler
  Jason Fowler (dancer)
  Jason Fowler studied ballet at the Dallas Ballet Center and entered the School of American Ballet in 1993. While there he danced selections from Balanchine's Agon, Cortège Hongrois, The Nutcracker and A Midsummer Night's Dream...
  
  

Monotones II

• • Frederick Ashton’s choreography
  • Satie's
    Erik Satie
    Éric Alfred Leslie Satie was a French composer and pianist. Satie was a colourful figure in the early 20th century Parisian avant-garde...
    
     Trois Gymnopédie
    Gymnopédie
    The Gymnopédies, published in Paris starting in 1888, are three piano compositions written by French composer and pianist Erik Satie.These short, atmospheric pieces are written in 3/4 time, with each sharing a common theme and structure...
    
    
  • costumes and lighting by Ashton

• Maria Kowroski
  Maria Kowroski
  Maria Kowroski is a principal ballerina at the New York City Ballet.Ms. Kowroski's training in ballet began at the School ofthe Grand Rapids Ballet and subsequently the School of American Ballet in 1992; became an apprentice with New York City Ballet in 1994 and joined the corps de ballet in 1995....
  
  

• Rubinald Pronk
  Rubinald Pronk
  Rubinald Rofino Pronk, born and raised in The Hague, is a danseur performing with the Morphoses/The Wheeldon Company. He trained at the Royal Conservatory of Dance and joined the Dutch National Ballet at age 16 and was promoted to soloist...
  
  
• Edward Watson
  Edward Watson (dancer)
  Edward Watson, born in Bromley, in 1976, trained at The Royal Ballet School, he joined the Royal Ballet company in 1994 he is a principal dancer and at the National Dance Awards in 2008 won 'Best Male Dancer'.-Early years:...
  
  

Commedia

New York City premiere http://www.villagevoice.com/2008-10-08/dance/bill-t-jones-adapts-a-poetic-puppet-play-christopher-wheeldon-deploys-some-jazz-age-harlequins/Village Voice by Deborah Jowitt

Deborah Jowitt

Deborah Jowitt is an American dance critic, author, and choreographer. Her career in dance began as a performer and choreographer. Jowitt has received several awards for her work, including a Bessie for her work in dance criticism.Beginning in 1967, she wrote a weekly dance column for the Village...

, October 7, 2008]

• • Christopher Wheeldon
    Christopher Wheeldon
    Christopher Wheeldon is an international choreographer of contemporary ballet. Born in Somerset, England, to an engineer and a physical therapist, Wheeldon began training to be a ballet dancer at the age of 8. He attended the Royal Ballet School between the ages of 11 and 18...
    
    ’s choreography
  • Stravinsky’s
    Igor Stravinsky
    Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky ; 6 April 1971) was a Russian, later naturalized French, and then naturalized American composer, pianist, and conductor....
    
     Pulcinella Suite
  • costumes by Isabel Toledo
    Isabel Toledo
    Isabel Toledo is a Cuban-American fashion designer based in New York.-Personal life:Isabel Toledo was born in Cuba and moved to New Jersey where she attended high school and met her future husband and collaborator, Ruben Toledo...
    
    
  • sets by Ruben Toledo
    Isabel Toledo
    Isabel Toledo is a Cuban-American fashion designer based in New York.-Personal life:Isabel Toledo was born in Cuba and moved to New Jersey where she attended high school and met her future husband and collaborator, Ruben Toledo...
    
    
  • lighting by Penny Jacobus

• Leanne Benjamin
  Leanne Benjamin
  Leanne Benjamin is a principal dancer with the Royal Ballet in London.Born in Rockhampton, Australia in 1964, she trained at the Royal Ballet School and won the Adeline Genée Gold Medal and Prix de Lausanne. She joined the Company in 1992 becoming a Principal by the spring of that Season...
  
  
• Beatriz Stix-Brunell
  Beatriz Stix-Brunell
  Beatriz Stix-Brunell is a ballet dancer presently dancing with The Royal Ballet. She previously danced with Morphoses.Stix-Brunell trained at the School of American Ballet from 2000 to 2005, when she was admitted to L'Ecole de Danse de l'Opera de Paris where she danced in the Demonstrations de...
  
  
• Céline Cassone
  Céline Cassone
  Céline Cassone is a French-born ballerina dancing with the Morphoses/The Wheeldon Company and Benjamin Millepied's Danses Concertantes ], December 12, 2008] at the Joyce Theater during their 2008 seasons. She at the Conservatoire National d’Avignon and began her dance career at the Deutsche Oper...
  
  
• Drew Jacoby
  Drew Jacoby
  Drew Jacoby is a principal guest artist with Dutch National Ballet.-Career:She trained at the School of American Ballet, the San Francisco Ballet and Pacific Northwest Ballet. At PNB she performed ballets by George Balanchine, Kent Stowell, Val Caniparoli and Michael Smuin...
  
  

• Rory Hohenstein
  Rory Hohenstein
  Rory Hohenstein is a danseur with the Joffrey Ballet. Born in Washington, DC, he began his training at the Kirov Academy of Ballet. Before finishing high school, he joined Le Jeune Ballet de France in Paris where completed his studies. He joined the San Francisco Ballet in July of 2000 and six...
  
  
• Edwaard Liang
  Edwaard Liang
  Edwaard Liang is a Tawanese-American dancer and choreographer. He grew up in Marin County, California.-Training:He began dance training at the age of five at Marin Ballet. In 1989, Liang entered the School of American Ballet....
  
  
• Rubinald Pronk
  Rubinald Pronk
  Rubinald Rofino Pronk, born and raised in The Hague, is a danseur performing with the Morphoses/The Wheeldon Company. He trained at the Royal Conservatory of Dance and joined the Dutch National Ballet at age 16 and was promoted to soloist...
  
  
• Edward Watson
  Edward Watson (dancer)
  Edward Watson, born in Bromley, in 1976, trained at The Royal Ballet School, he joined the Royal Ballet company in 1994 he is a principal dancer and at the National Dance Awards in 2008 won 'Best Male Dancer'.-Early years:...
  
  

Six Fold Illuminate

http://www.villagevoice.com/2008-10-08/dance/bill-t-jones-adapts-a-poetic-puppet-play-christopher-wheeldon-deploys-some-jazz-age-harlequins/Village Voice by Deborah Jowitt

Deborah Jowitt

Deborah Jowitt is an American dance critic, author, and choreographer. Her career in dance began as a performer and choreographer. Jowitt has received several awards for her work, including a Bessie for her work in dance criticism.Beginning in 1967, she wrote a weekly dance column for the Village...

, October 7, 2008]

• • Emily Molnar
    Emily Molnar
    Emily Molnar, noted by Maclean's magazine as one of Canada's "new generation of ballet sensations", is the artistic director of Ballet BC where she has been steering the company into a new era of innovation and collaboration since July 2009...
    
    's choreography
  • Reich's
    Steve Reich
    Stephen Michael "Steve" Reich is an American composer who together with La Monte Young, Terry Riley, and Philip Glass is a pioneering composer of minimal music...
    
     Variations for Winds, Strings and Keyboards
  • costumes by Narciso Rodriguez
    Narciso Rodriguez
    Narciso Rodriguez III is an American fashion designer.Rodriguez is the first child and only son of Cuban parents Narciso Rodríguez II, a longshoreman, and Rawedia María Rodríguez who are of Canarian descent. He grew up in Newark, New Jersey. His parents were against Narciso entering fashion: "They...
    
    
  • lighting by Pierre Lavoie

• Drew Jacoby
  Drew Jacoby
  Drew Jacoby is a principal guest artist with Dutch National Ballet.-Career:She trained at the School of American Ballet, the San Francisco Ballet and Pacific Northwest Ballet. At PNB she performed ballets by George Balanchine, Kent Stowell, Val Caniparoli and Michael Smuin...
  
  
• Céline Cassone
  Céline Cassone
  Céline Cassone is a French-born ballerina dancing with the Morphoses/The Wheeldon Company and Benjamin Millepied's Danses Concertantes ], December 12, 2008] at the Joyce Theater during their 2008 seasons. She at the Conservatoire National d’Avignon and began her dance career at the Deutsche Oper...
  
  

• Edwaard Liang
  Edwaard Liang
  Edwaard Liang is a Tawanese-American dancer and choreographer. He grew up in Marin County, California.-Training:He began dance training at the age of five at Marin Ballet. In 1989, Liang entered the School of American Ballet....
  
  
• Edward Watson
  Edward Watson (dancer)
  Edward Watson, born in Bromley, in 1976, trained at The Royal Ballet School, he joined the Royal Ballet company in 1994 he is a principal dancer and at the National Dance Awards in 2008 won 'Best Male Dancer'.-Early years:...
  
  
• Rubinald Pronk
  Rubinald Pronk
  Rubinald Rofino Pronk, born and raised in The Hague, is a danseur performing with the Morphoses/The Wheeldon Company. He trained at the Royal Conservatory of Dance and joined the Dutch National Ballet at age 16 and was promoted to soloist...
  
  
• Rory Hohenstein
  Rory Hohenstein
  Rory Hohenstein is a danseur with the Joffrey Ballet. Born in Washington, DC, he began his training at the Kirov Academy of Ballet. Before finishing high school, he joined Le Jeune Ballet de France in Paris where completed his studies. He joined the San Francisco Ballet in July of 2000 and six...
  
  

Commedia

New York City premiere http://www.villagevoice.com/2008-10-08/dance/bill-t-jones-adapts-a-poetic-puppet-play-christopher-wheeldon-deploys-some-jazz-age-harlequins/Village Voice by Deborah Jowitt

Deborah Jowitt

Deborah Jowitt is an American dance critic, author, and choreographer. Her career in dance began as a performer and choreographer. Jowitt has received several awards for her work, including a Bessie for her work in dance criticism.Beginning in 1967, she wrote a weekly dance column for the Village...

, October 7, 2008]

• • Christopher Wheeldon
    Christopher Wheeldon
    Christopher Wheeldon is an international choreographer of contemporary ballet. Born in Somerset, England, to an engineer and a physical therapist, Wheeldon began training to be a ballet dancer at the age of 8. He attended the Royal Ballet School between the ages of 11 and 18...
    
    ’s choreography
  • Stravinsky’s
    Igor Stravinsky
    Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky ; 6 April 1971) was a Russian, later naturalized French, and then naturalized American composer, pianist, and conductor....
    
     Pulcinella Suite
  • costumes by Isabel Toledo
    Isabel Toledo
    Isabel Toledo is a Cuban-American fashion designer based in New York.-Personal life:Isabel Toledo was born in Cuba and moved to New Jersey where she attended high school and met her future husband and collaborator, Ruben Toledo...
    
    
  • sets by Ruben Toledo
    Isabel Toledo
    Isabel Toledo is a Cuban-American fashion designer based in New York.-Personal life:Isabel Toledo was born in Cuba and moved to New Jersey where she attended high school and met her future husband and collaborator, Ruben Toledo...
    
    
  • lighting by Penny Jacobus

• Leanne Benjamin
  Leanne Benjamin
  Leanne Benjamin is a principal dancer with the Royal Ballet in London.Born in Rockhampton, Australia in 1964, she trained at the Royal Ballet School and won the Adeline Genée Gold Medal and Prix de Lausanne. She joined the Company in 1992 becoming a Principal by the spring of that Season...
  
  
• Beatriz Stix-Brunell
  Beatriz Stix-Brunell
  Beatriz Stix-Brunell is a ballet dancer presently dancing with The Royal Ballet. She previously danced with Morphoses.Stix-Brunell trained at the School of American Ballet from 2000 to 2005, when she was admitted to L'Ecole de Danse de l'Opera de Paris where she danced in the Demonstrations de...
  
  
• Céline Cassone
  Céline Cassone
  Céline Cassone is a French-born ballerina dancing with the Morphoses/The Wheeldon Company and Benjamin Millepied's Danses Concertantes ], December 12, 2008] at the Joyce Theater during their 2008 seasons. She at the Conservatoire National d’Avignon and began her dance career at the Deutsche Oper...
  
  
• Drew Jacoby
  Drew Jacoby
  Drew Jacoby is a principal guest artist with Dutch National Ballet.-Career:She trained at the School of American Ballet, the San Francisco Ballet and Pacific Northwest Ballet. At PNB she performed ballets by George Balanchine, Kent Stowell, Val Caniparoli and Michael Smuin...
  
  

• Rory Hohenstein
  Rory Hohenstein
  Rory Hohenstein is a danseur with the Joffrey Ballet. Born in Washington, DC, he began his training at the Kirov Academy of Ballet. Before finishing high school, he joined Le Jeune Ballet de France in Paris where completed his studies. He joined the San Francisco Ballet in July of 2000 and six...
  
  
• Edwaard Liang
  Edwaard Liang
  Edwaard Liang is a Tawanese-American dancer and choreographer. He grew up in Marin County, California.-Training:He began dance training at the age of five at Marin Ballet. In 1989, Liang entered the School of American Ballet....
  
  
• Rubinald Pronk
  Rubinald Pronk
  Rubinald Rofino Pronk, born and raised in The Hague, is a danseur performing with the Morphoses/The Wheeldon Company. He trained at the Royal Conservatory of Dance and joined the Dutch National Ballet at age 16 and was promoted to soloist...
  
  
• Edward Watson
  Edward Watson (dancer)
  Edward Watson, born in Bromley, in 1976, trained at The Royal Ballet School, he joined the Royal Ballet company in 1994 he is a principal dancer and at the National Dance Awards in 2008 won 'Best Male Dancer'.-Early years:...
  
  

One

Annabelle Lopez Ochoa's One replaced Sir Frederick Ashton’s The Dream Pas de Deux due to injury.

• Annabelle Lopez Ochoa
  Annabelle Lopez Ochoa
  Annabelle Lopez Ochoa is an international choreographer based out of Amsterdam, Netherlands.-Dance Background:Ochoa, who is half-Colombian and half-Belgian, completed her dance training at the Royal Ballet Academy in Antwerp, Belgium. She appeared with various German companies before eventually...
  
  's choreography
  • Ter Vedhuis' music
  • costumes by Benjamin Briones
  • lighting by Lopez Ochoa
    Annabelle Lopez Ochoa
    Annabelle Lopez Ochoa is an international choreographer based out of Amsterdam, Netherlands.-Dance Background:Ochoa, who is half-Colombian and half-Belgian, completed her dance training at the Royal Ballet Academy in Antwerp, Belgium. She appeared with various German companies before eventually...
    
    

• Drew Jacoby
  Drew Jacoby
  Drew Jacoby is a principal guest artist with Dutch National Ballet.-Career:She trained at the School of American Ballet, the San Francisco Ballet and Pacific Northwest Ballet. At PNB she performed ballets by George Balanchine, Kent Stowell, Val Caniparoli and Michael Smuin...
  
  

• Rubinald Pronk
  Rubinald Pronk
  Rubinald Rofino Pronk, born and raised in The Hague, is a danseur performing with the Morphoses/The Wheeldon Company. He trained at the Royal Conservatory of Dance and joined the Dutch National Ballet at age 16 and was promoted to soloist...
  
  

Monotones II

• • Frederick Ashton’s choreography
  • Satie's
    Erik Satie
    Éric Alfred Leslie Satie was a French composer and pianist. Satie was a colourful figure in the early 20th century Parisian avant-garde...
    
     Trois Gymnopédie
    Gymnopédie
    The Gymnopédies, published in Paris starting in 1888, are three piano compositions written by French composer and pianist Erik Satie.These short, atmospheric pieces are written in 3/4 time, with each sharing a common theme and structure...
    
    
  • costumes and lighting by Ashton

• Wendy Whelan
  Wendy Whelan
  Wendy Whelan is a principal dancer with the New York City Ballet and guest artist with Morphoses/The Wheeldon Company.-Early life:A native of Louisville, Kentucky , she began her dance training with local teacher Virginia Wooton at the age of three...
  
  

• Tyler Angle
• Adrian Danchig-Waring

Shutters Shut

• • Lightfoot León's choreography
  • text by Gertrude Stein
    Gertrude Stein
    Gertrude Stein was an American writer, poet and art collector who spent most of her life in France.-Early life:...
    
    
  • costumes and lighting by Lightfoot León

• Christine Thomassen guest artist

• Andreas Heise 

Fools’ Paradise

• Christopher Wheeldon
  Christopher Wheeldon
  Christopher Wheeldon is an international choreographer of contemporary ballet. Born in Somerset, England, to an engineer and a physical therapist, Wheeldon began training to be a ballet dancer at the age of 8. He attended the Royal Ballet School between the ages of 11 and 18...
  
  ’s choreography
  • Saint-Saëns'
    Camille Saint-Saëns
    Charles-Camille Saint-Saëns was a French Late-Romantic composer, organist, conductor, and pianist. He is known especially for The Carnival of the Animals, Danse macabre, Samson and Delilah, Piano Concerto No. 2, Cello Concerto No. 1, Havanaise, Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso, and his Symphony...
    
     The Dying Swan
    The Dying Swan
    The Dying Swan is a ballet choreographed by Mikhail Fokine in 1905 to Camille Saint-Saëns's cello solo Le Cygne from Le Carnaval des Animaux as a pièce d'occasion for the ballerina Anna Pavlova. The short ballet follows the last moments in the life of a swan, and was first presented in St....
    
    
  • orchestrated by Joby Talbot
    Joby Talbot
    Joby Talbot is a British composer.Born in Wimbledon, London, Talbot studied composition at Royal Holloway and Bedford New College at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama under Brian Elias and Simon Bainbridge....
    
    
  • costumes by Narciso Rodriguez
    Narciso Rodriguez
    Narciso Rodriguez III is an American fashion designer.Rodriguez is the first child and only son of Cuban parents Narciso Rodríguez II, a longshoreman, and Rawedia María Rodríguez who are of Canarian descent. He grew up in Newark, New Jersey. His parents were against Narciso entering fashion: "They...
    
    
  • lighting by Penny Jacobus

• Wendy Whelan
  Wendy Whelan
  Wendy Whelan is a principal dancer with the New York City Ballet and guest artist with Morphoses/The Wheeldon Company.-Early life:A native of Louisville, Kentucky , she began her dance training with local teacher Virginia Wooton at the age of three...
  
  
• Maria Kowroski
  Maria Kowroski
  Maria Kowroski is a principal ballerina at the New York City Ballet.Ms. Kowroski's training in ballet began at the School ofthe Grand Rapids Ballet and subsequently the School of American Ballet in 1992; became an apprentice with New York City Ballet in 1994 and joined the corps de ballet in 1995....
  
  
• Teresa Reichlen
• Tiler Peck
• Céline Cassone
  Céline Cassone
  Céline Cassone is a French-born ballerina dancing with the Morphoses/The Wheeldon Company and Benjamin Millepied's Danses Concertantes ], December 12, 2008] at the Joyce Theater during their 2008 seasons. She at the Conservatoire National d’Avignon and began her dance career at the Deutsche Oper...
  
  

• Craig Hall
• Edwaard Liang
  Edwaard Liang
  Edwaard Liang is a Tawanese-American dancer and choreographer. He grew up in Marin County, California.-Training:He began dance training at the age of five at Marin Ballet. In 1989, Liang entered the School of American Ballet....
  
  
• Adrian Danchig-Waring
• Gonzalo Garcia

Commedia

• • Christopher Wheeldon
    Christopher Wheeldon
    Christopher Wheeldon is an international choreographer of contemporary ballet. Born in Somerset, England, to an engineer and a physical therapist, Wheeldon began training to be a ballet dancer at the age of 8. He attended the Royal Ballet School between the ages of 11 and 18...
    
    ’s choreography
  • Stravinsky's
    Igor Stravinsky
    Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky ; 6 April 1971) was a Russian, later naturalized French, and then naturalized American composer, pianist, and conductor....
    
     music

Softly as I Leave You

• • Lightfoot León’s choreography
  • Pärt's
    Arvo Pärt
    Arvo Pärt is an Estonian classical composer and one of the most prominent living composers of sacred music. Since the late 1970s, Pärt has worked in a minimalist style that employs his self-made compositional technique, tintinnabuli. His music also finds its inspiration and influence from...
    
     and Bach's
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    Johann Sebastian Bach was a German composer, organist, harpsichordist, violist, and violinist whose sacred and secular works for choir, orchestra, and solo instruments drew together the strands of the Baroque period and brought it to its ultimate maturity...
    
     music

• Drew Jacoby
  Drew Jacoby
  Drew Jacoby is a principal guest artist with Dutch National Ballet.-Career:She trained at the School of American Ballet, the San Francisco Ballet and Pacific Northwest Ballet. At PNB she performed ballets by George Balanchine, Kent Stowell, Val Caniparoli and Michael Smuin...
  
  

• Rubinald Pronk
  Rubinald Pronk
  Rubinald Rofino Pronk, born and raised in The Hague, is a danseur performing with the Morphoses/The Wheeldon Company. He trained at the Royal Conservatory of Dance and joined the Dutch National Ballet at age 16 and was promoted to soloist...
  
  

program one, Thursday and Saturday, October 29 and 31

NY Times review by Gia Kourlas, October 30, 2009 NY Post review by Leigh Witchel, October 30, 2009

• • accompanied by the Philharmonic Orchestra of the Americas

Commedia

• • Christopher Wheeldon
    Christopher Wheeldon
    Christopher Wheeldon is an international choreographer of contemporary ballet. Born in Somerset, England, to an engineer and a physical therapist, Wheeldon began training to be a ballet dancer at the age of 8. He attended the Royal Ballet School between the ages of 11 and 18...
    
    ’s choreography
  • Stravinsky's
    Igor Stravinsky
    Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky ; 6 April 1971) was a Russian, later naturalized French, and then naturalized American composer, pianist, and conductor....
    
     music

Softly as I Leave You

• • Lightfoot León’s choreography
  • Part's
    Arvo Pärt
    Arvo Pärt is an Estonian classical composer and one of the most prominent living composers of sacred music. Since the late 1970s, Pärt has worked in a minimalist style that employs his self-made compositional technique, tintinnabuli. His music also finds its inspiration and influence from...
    
     and Bach's music

• Drew Jacoby
  Drew Jacoby
  Drew Jacoby is a principal guest artist with Dutch National Ballet.-Career:She trained at the School of American Ballet, the San Francisco Ballet and Pacific Northwest Ballet. At PNB she performed ballets by George Balanchine, Kent Stowell, Val Caniparoli and Michael Smuin...
  
  

• Rubinald Pronk
  Rubinald Pronk
  Rubinald Rofino Pronk, born and raised in The Hague, is a danseur performing with the Morphoses/The Wheeldon Company. He trained at the Royal Conservatory of Dance and joined the Dutch National Ballet at age 16 and was promoted to soloist...
  
  

new Harbour ballet

• • Tim Harbour’s choreography US premiere
  • Edwards' music

Continuum

• • Christopher Wheeldon
    Christopher Wheeldon
    Christopher Wheeldon is an international choreographer of contemporary ballet. Born in Somerset, England, to an engineer and a physical therapist, Wheeldon began training to be a ballet dancer at the age of 8. He attended the Royal Ballet School between the ages of 11 and 18...
    
    ’s choreography
  • Ligeti
    György Ligeti
    György Sándor Ligeti was a composer of contemporary classical music. Born in a Hungarian Jewish family in Transylvania, Romania, he briefly lived in Hungary before becoming an Austrian citizen.-Early life:...
    
    's music

Softly as I Leave You

• • Lightfoot León’s choreography
  • Pärt's
    Arvo Pärt
    Arvo Pärt is an Estonian classical composer and one of the most prominent living composers of sacred music. Since the late 1970s, Pärt has worked in a minimalist style that employs his self-made compositional technique, tintinnabuli. His music also finds its inspiration and influence from...
    
     and Bach's
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    Johann Sebastian Bach was a German composer, organist, harpsichordist, violist, and violinist whose sacred and secular works for choir, orchestra, and solo instruments drew together the strands of the Baroque period and brought it to its ultimate maturity...
    
     music

new Wheeldon ballet

• • Christopher Wheeldon
    Christopher Wheeldon
    Christopher Wheeldon is an international choreographer of contemporary ballet. Born in Somerset, England, to an engineer and a physical therapist, Wheeldon began training to be a ballet dancer at the age of 8. He attended the Royal Ballet School between the ages of 11 and 18...
    
    ’s choreography
  • Rachmaninoff's music

2008 New York City Center

• Beatriz Stix-Brunell
  Beatriz Stix-Brunell
  Beatriz Stix-Brunell is a ballet dancer presently dancing with The Royal Ballet. She previously danced with Morphoses.Stix-Brunell trained at the School of American Ballet from 2000 to 2005, when she was admitted to L'Ecole de Danse de l'Opera de Paris where she danced in the Demonstrations de...
  
  
• Céline Cassone
  Céline Cassone
  Céline Cassone is a French-born ballerina dancing with the Morphoses/The Wheeldon Company and Benjamin Millepied's Danses Concertantes ], December 12, 2008] at the Joyce Theater during their 2008 seasons. She at the Conservatoire National d’Avignon and began her dance career at the Deutsche Oper...
  
  
• Christine Thomassen guest artist
• Drew Jacoby
  Drew Jacoby
  Drew Jacoby is a principal guest artist with Dutch National Ballet.-Career:She trained at the School of American Ballet, the San Francisco Ballet and Pacific Northwest Ballet. At PNB she performed ballets by George Balanchine, Kent Stowell, Val Caniparoli and Michael Smuin...
  
  
• Leanne Benjamin
  Leanne Benjamin
  Leanne Benjamin is a principal dancer with the Royal Ballet in London.Born in Rockhampton, Australia in 1964, she trained at the Royal Ballet School and won the Adeline Genée Gold Medal and Prix de Lausanne. She joined the Company in 1992 becoming a Principal by the spring of that Season...
  
  
• Maria Kowroski
  Maria Kowroski
  Maria Kowroski is a principal ballerina at the New York City Ballet.Ms. Kowroski's training in ballet began at the School ofthe Grand Rapids Ballet and subsequently the School of American Ballet in 1992; became an apprentice with New York City Ballet in 1994 and joined the corps de ballet in 1995....
  
  
• Teresa Reichlen
• Tiler Peck
• Wendy Whelan
  Wendy Whelan
  Wendy Whelan is a principal dancer with the New York City Ballet and guest artist with Morphoses/The Wheeldon Company.-Early life:A native of Louisville, Kentucky , she began her dance training with local teacher Virginia Wooton at the age of three...
  
  

• Adrian Danchig-Waring
• Andreas Heise
• Craig Hall
• Edwaard Liang
  Edwaard Liang
  Edwaard Liang is a Tawanese-American dancer and choreographer. He grew up in Marin County, California.-Training:He began dance training at the age of five at Marin Ballet. In 1989, Liang entered the School of American Ballet....
  
  
• Edward Watson
  Edward Watson (dancer)
  Edward Watson, born in Bromley, in 1976, trained at The Royal Ballet School, he joined the Royal Ballet company in 1994 he is a principal dancer and at the National Dance Awards in 2008 won 'Best Male Dancer'.-Early years:...
  
  
• Gonzalo Garcia
• Jason Fowler
  Jason Fowler (dancer)
  Jason Fowler studied ballet at the Dallas Ballet Center and entered the School of American Ballet in 1993. While there he danced selections from Balanchine's Agon, Cortège Hongrois, The Nutcracker and A Midsummer Night's Dream...
  
  
• Rory Hohenstein
  Rory Hohenstein
  Rory Hohenstein is a danseur with the Joffrey Ballet. Born in Washington, DC, he began his training at the Kirov Academy of Ballet. Before finishing high school, he joined Le Jeune Ballet de France in Paris where completed his studies. He joined the San Francisco Ballet in July of 2000 and six...
  
  
• Rubinald Pronk
  Rubinald Pronk
  Rubinald Rofino Pronk, born and raised in The Hague, is a danseur performing with the Morphoses/The Wheeldon Company. He trained at the Royal Conservatory of Dance and joined the Dutch National Ballet at age 16 and was promoted to soloist...
  
  
• Tyler Angle

2009 Fall for Dance

• Drew Jacoby
  Drew Jacoby
  Drew Jacoby is a principal guest artist with Dutch National Ballet.-Career:She trained at the School of American Ballet, the San Francisco Ballet and Pacific Northwest Ballet. At PNB she performed ballets by George Balanchine, Kent Stowell, Val Caniparoli and Michael Smuin...
  
  

• Rubinald Pronk
  Rubinald Pronk
  Rubinald Rofino Pronk, born and raised in The Hague, is a danseur performing with the Morphoses/The Wheeldon Company. He trained at the Royal Conservatory of Dance and joined the Dutch National Ballet at age 16 and was promoted to soloist...
  
  

2009 New York City Center

• Carrie Lee Riggins
  Carrie Lee Riggins
  Carrie Lee Riggins is a ballerina dancing with Morphoses/The Wheeldon Company; she formerly danced for New York City Ballet having trained at their affiliated School of American Ballet.- External links : **...
  
  
• Danielle Rowe
  Danielle Rowe
  Danielle Rowe is an Australian ballet dancer.Rowe was born on 28 June 1982 in Shepparton, Victoria, and trained in Newcastle and Adelaide. She joined The Australian Ballet in 2001. She won the Telstra People's Choice Award in both 2003 and 2005 and in 2008 became a Principal Artist with the company...
  
  
• Drew Jacoby
  Drew Jacoby
  Drew Jacoby is a principal guest artist with Dutch National Ballet.-Career:She trained at the School of American Ballet, the San Francisco Ballet and Pacific Northwest Ballet. At PNB she performed ballets by George Balanchine, Kent Stowell, Val Caniparoli and Michael Smuin...
  
  
• Gabrielle Lamb
  Gabrielle Lamb
  Gabrielle Lamb is a ballerina dancing with the Morphoses/The Wheeldon Company. She trained at the Boston Ballet School before joining Les Grands Ballets Canadiens in 2000, where she was promoted to soloist in two years later...
  
  
• Melissa Barak
  Melissa Barak
  Melissa Barak is a choreographer and ballerina, dancing with the Los Angeles Ballet since 2006 and with Morphoses/The Wheeldon Company; she formerly danced for New York City Ballet having trained at their affiliated School of American Ballet....
  
  
• Rachel Sherak
  Rachel Sherak
  Rachel Sherak is a ballerina dancing with Morphoses/The Wheeldon Company and formerly with the Carolina Ballet. She began studying dance at the North Atlanta Dance Academy and then the School of American Ballet...
  
  
• Wendy Whelan
  Wendy Whelan
  Wendy Whelan is a principal dancer with the New York City Ballet and guest artist with Morphoses/The Wheeldon Company.-Early life:A native of Louisville, Kentucky , she began her dance training with local teacher Virginia Wooton at the age of three...
  
  

• Andrew Crawford
  Andrew Crawford (dancer)
  Andrew Crawford is an Australian danseur performing with the Morphoses/The Wheeldon Company, having previously danced with the Monte Carlo Ballet and the Dutch National Ballet.He is the brother of halfpipe Snowboarder Holly Crawford.- External links :...
  
  
• Edwaard Liang
  Edwaard Liang
  Edwaard Liang is a Tawanese-American dancer and choreographer. He grew up in Marin County, California.-Training:He began dance training at the age of five at Marin Ballet. In 1989, Liang entered the School of American Ballet....
  
  
• Juan Pablo Ledo
  Juan Pablo Ledo
  Juan Pablo Ledo is a principal dancer at Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires and performs with the Morphoses/The Wheeldon Company, having previously danced with the Contemporary Ballet of San Martin Theatre and Julio Bocca's Ballet Argentino.- External links : *...
  
  
• Lucas Segovia
  Lucas Segovia
  Lucas Segovia is a danseur performing with the Morphoses/The Wheeldon Company and formerly danced with the Washington Ballet and Julio Bocca's Boccatango .- External links :*...
  
  
• Matthew Prescott
  Matthew Prescott
  Matthew Prescott, born and raised in Idaho, is a danseur performing with the Morphoses/The Wheeldon Company. He attended the Joffrey/New School University in New York City and in 2000 was invited to join the Joffrey Ballet...
  
  
• Rory Hohenstein
  Rory Hohenstein
  Rory Hohenstein is a danseur with the Joffrey Ballet. Born in Washington, DC, he began his training at the Kirov Academy of Ballet. Before finishing high school, he joined Le Jeune Ballet de France in Paris where completed his studies. He joined the San Francisco Ballet in July of 2000 and six...
  
  
• Rubinald Pronk
  Rubinald Pronk
  Rubinald Rofino Pronk, born and raised in The Hague, is a danseur performing with the Morphoses/The Wheeldon Company. He trained at the Royal Conservatory of Dance and joined the Dutch National Ballet at age 16 and was promoted to soloist...
  
  
• Ty Gurfein
  Ty Gurfein
  Ty Gurfein is a danseur performing with the Morphoses/The Wheeldon Company. He trained at the School of American Ballet from age 9 on full scholarship, studying with Peter Boal and Olga Kostritsky. At SAB Ty danced with New York City Ballet in Swan Lake, Sleeping Beauty and George Balanchine’s The...
  
  

Reviews

• http://www.villagevoice.com/2009-11-10/dance/christopher-wheeldon-not-quite-top-chef/Village Voice by Deborah Jowitt
  Deborah Jowitt
  Deborah Jowitt is an American dance critic, author, and choreographer. Her career in dance began as a performer and choreographer. Jowitt has received several awards for her work, including a Bessie for her work in dance criticism.Beginning in 1967, she wrote a weekly dance column for the Village...
  
  , November 10, 2009]
• Sulcas, Roslyn, 2009, "New Troupe Faces a Hard Reality," International Herald Tribune, October 24-25, pp. 15 & 19.

External links

• Morphoses, official website
• City Center, official website
• Sadler's Wells, official website
  • Morphoses on the Sadler's Wells website
• Vail International Dance Festival: Morphoses dancer bios

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