Christopher Wheeldon Biography

English choreographer Christopher Wheeldon is Artistic Associate of The Royal Ballet. He trained at The Royal Ballet School and danced with the Company 1991–3. For The Royal Ballet he created the one-act ballets Tryst (2002) DGV: Danse à grande vitesse (2006) Electric Counterpoint (2008) ‘Trespass’ (Metamorphosis: Titian 2012 in collaboration with Alastair Marriott) and Aeternum (2013 winner of the Olivier Award for Best New Dance Production) and the full-length ballets Alice's Adventures in Wonderland in 2011 (The Royal Ballet's first full-length commission in 20 years) and The Winter's Tale in 2014.
Wheeldon was born in Yeovil and trained at The Royal Ballet School. In 1991 he won gold medal at the Prix de Lausanne with a solo of his own creation and that year entered The Royal Ballet where Kenneth MacMillan encouraged him in his choreographic work. In 1993 Wheeldon joined New York City Ballet promoted to soloist in 1998. He created his first work for NYCB Slavonic Dances in 1997 and became the company’s first Resident Choreographer in 2001. Works for NYCB include Polyphonia (2001 winner of a London Critics’ Circle Award and the Olivier Award for Best New Dance Production) An American in Paris (2005) and The Nightingale and the Rose (2007).

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