Christopher Wheeldon
Christopher Wheeldon
Christopher Peter Wheeldon OBEis an English international choreographer of contemporary ballet...
ProfessionDancer
Date of Birth22 March 1973
abandon across anxious ballet bit create ending everyday fairy himself ideal magic notion reach romance romantic strange stumble time twist woman woods
There's a bit of a strange twist to my ending I won't say what. I was anxious not to abandon the romance, the fairy tale, the magic in this ballet but at the same time I wanted to reach that from an everyday world, for him to create that romantic notion of an ideal woman for himself not to go skipping through some fairy-tale woods and stumble across an enchanted swan-woman.
paintings poignant
Those Degas paintings tell a story that's poignant and very dark,