#christopher wheeldon

[mywingsareonwheels]

Ah yes, the 2024 filmed performance of The Winter's Tale (Wheeldon/Talbot after Shakespeare) from the Royal Ballet and starring Matthew Ball, Marianela Núñez, Mayara Magri et al is as good as I remember from seeing it live-relayed into the cinema.

In not-unrelated news: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH

(Also the silks use to do the bear remains one of the coolest stage things I've ever seen.)

[spacexcats]

I love ballet so much. This is the perfect expression of it

[arcimboldisworld]

An American in Paris - Grand Théâtre de Genève 20.12.2025 #amazingshow #genf #waynemarshall #orchestredelasuisseromande #musical #gershwin #musicwasmyfirstloveanditwillbemylast

An American in Paris - Grand Théâtre de Genève 20.12.2025

[irate-iguana]

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.

[gothicsynthetic]

Svetlana Lunkina as Paulina in the National Ballet of Canada’s *The Winter’s Tale*, choreographed by Christopher Wheeldon and set to music by Joby Talbot.

Photo by Aleksandar Antonijevic.

[adreamthatsworthkeeping]

This is why you support libraries!!! Hoopla has Christopher Wheeldon's Alice in Wonderland ballet which I've been dying to see since forever!!!

[womaninbed]

Paloma Livellara Vidart performing You Turn Me On I’m a Radio” by Joni Mitchell, choreographed by Christopher Wheeldon

[balletthebestphotographs]

Unity Phelan and Chun Wai Chan

Unity Phelan and Chun Wai Chan 陈镇威, “Liturgy”, choreo by Christopher Wheeldon, music by Avro Pärt (“Fratres”), costume by Holly Hynes, New York City Ballet, David H. Koch Theater, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, New York City, USA.

Note: Original quality of photographs might be affected by compression algorithm of the website where they are hosted.

Source and more info at: Photographer Erin Baiano Website Photographer Erin Baiano on Tumblr Photographer Erin Baiano on Instagram

via Unity Phelan on Instagram