#christopher wheeldon

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Genevieve should force Tobias to collaborate with another choreographer just so we can see him be artistically tortured in a different way. We’ve seen him struggle to just get dancers to do what he wants ,but what about when there’s another renowned choreographer who doesn’t have the same vision as him?

Bonus points if that choreographer is Christopher Wheeldon. I think his Étoile self should have a slow descent into madness that comes from working with the most neurotic characters, purely for the comedy. He barely handled Cheyenne, how will he handle another choreographer with basically the same approach to the work?

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Marianela Nunez and Matthew Ball in The Winter's Tale (Royal Ballet 2024)

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I went to see Christopher Wheeldon’s Winter’s Tale ballet yesterday and it was really good. Highly recommend. One change to Shakespeare’s play made me absolutely inconsolable: the statue that Paulina unveils at the end is of both Hermione and Mamillius. Except only Hermione comes back to life. In Shakespeare, Hermione’s statue is aged up 16 years, accounting for the amount of time that she has been dead. And perhaps it was just a coincidence based on the dancers that night, but Mamillius looked aged up in the statue, too, though only by a few years—taller, but still undeniably a child. His stone form loomed over the entire reunion scene, colouring the joy with a sense of irreparable loss. At the end of the ballet, Hermione and Perdita exit the stage together, but Leontes goes up to Mamillius’ statue and grabs at it, begging him to come back to life too, until Paulina tells him to go join his wife and daughter. The final image is that of Paulina inclining towards the statue: a child who will never grow up, and a consequence of his actions that Leontes will never be able to make right.

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Roses vs Tarts

Peak genius and creativity (and humour).

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... please ... please my soul craves a ballet of Ainulindalë choreographed by Christopher Wheeldon. Please, I beg you...

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Ella Newton Severgnini and Francisco Serrano in rehearsal for Like Water for Chocolate (Royal Ballet, 2025)

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FUMI KANEKO and VADIM MUNTAGIROV rehearse the roles of King Leontes and Queen Hermione for The Royal Ballet's production of "The Winter's Tale" (2024).

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Isabella Gasparini

Isabella Gasparini as “Alice”, “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland”, based on the novel of the same name (1865) by Lewis Carroll, choreo by Christopher Wheeldon, music by Joby Talbot, costume design by Bob Crowley, The Royal Ballet, London, England.

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