Due to popular demand, The Joffrey Ballet has announced an extended weekend of performances for two-time Tony Award-winner Christopher Wheeldon's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Marking the first ...

In February, the news broke that Christopher Wheeldon was stepping down as artistic director of Morphoses/the Christopher Wheeldon Company, the internationally acclaimed ballet troupe he founded just ...

Is any golden-boy choreographer more connected than the young Brit Christopher Wheeldon? Although his new company, Morphoses, which debuts at City Center October 19, won’t hire full-time dancers until ...

“The goal from the very beginning was to capture the essence of Michael, but also make a new piece of art,” describes director and choreographer Christopher Wheeldon of his work on “MJ the Musical.” ...

Christopher Wheeldon knows how iconic Michael Jackson’s moves are to the world and to the entertainment industry, so when he stepped in as both director and choreographer for the Broadway show, now ...

Chicago’s Joffrey Ballet will be the first American company to bring John Neumeier’s landmark narrative ballet “Liliom” and Christopher Wheeldon’s “The Sleeping Beauty” to the stage next season, ...

NEW YORK -- For some years now, choreographer Christopher Wheeldon has had the ballet crowd eating from his hand. Few contemporary dance makers have demonstrated Wheeldon's talent, and hardly any have ...

Precocious and prolific, the British choreographer Christopher Wheeldon, at 38, is world renowned. Many on the ballet scene believe he’s the one who will assume George Ballanchine’s mantel and lead ...

Coded into many modern dancers’ genetic makeup is the desire to choreograph and to form a company devoted to that work. That the enterprise may be small-scale and possibly poverty-stricken is no ...

As a child, Christopher Wheeldon was a ballet and musical theater kid, like as not listening to Tchaikovsky while his brothers had Michael Jackson‘s Thriller on the turntable. His idea of an afternoon ...

Hubbard Street Dance Chicago and the Off Broadway revue “Gotta Dance!” shine a light on repertory that is too often overlooked. By Brian Seibert Christopher Wheeldon’s lengthy “The Winter’s Tale,” a ...