Morphoses is a ballet company, co-founded in 2007 by Christopher Wheeldon and Lourdes Lopez. Morphoses is a guest resident company at the New York City Center and at Sadler's Wells Theatre in London.[1] It was known as Morphoses/The Wheeldon Company until February 2010, when Wheeldon announced that he was leaving the company.[2]

Productions

City Center, October 1–5, 2008

program one, October 1–3

Polyphonia

[Review 1]

    • Christopher Wheeldon’s choreography
    • Ligeti's eponymous music
    • costumes by Holly Hynes
    • lighting by Mark Stanley
Monotones II
Commedia

[Programs 1][Review 1][Review 2]

Six Fold Illuminate

[Review 1][Review 3]

program two, October 4–5

Commedia

[Programs 1][Review 1][Review 3]

  • Christopher Wheeldon’s choreography
    • Stravinsky’s Pulcinella Suite
    • costumes by Isabel Toledo
    • sets by Ruben Toledo
    • lighting by Penny Jacobus
One

[Programs 1][Programs 2]

Monotones II
    • Frederick Ashton’s choreography
    • Satie's Trois Gymnopédie
    • costumes and lighting by Ashton
Shutters Shut
Fools’ Paradise

Guggenheim Museum, March 8–9, 2009

Commedia

    • Christopher Wheeldon’s choreography
    • Stravinsky's music

Fall for Dance, September–October 2009

Softly as I Leave You

    • Lightfoot León’s choreography
    • Pärt and Bach's music

City Center, October 29, – November 1, 2009

program one, Thursday and Saturday, October 29 and 31

[Review 4][Review 5]

    • accompanied by the Philharmonic Orchestra of the Americas
Commedia
    • Christopher Wheeldon’s choreography
    • Stravinsky[6]'s music
Softly as I Leave You
    • Lightfoot León's choreography
    • Pärt and Bach's music
Bolero
new Harbour ballet

program two, Friday and Sunday, October 30 and November 1

    • all piano program
Continuum
    • Christopher Wheeldon’s choreography
    • Ligeti's music
Softly as I Leave You
    • Lightfoot León’s choreography
    • Pärt and Bach's music
new Wheeldon ballet
    • Christopher Wheeldon’s choreography [Programs 3]
    • Rachmaninoff's music

notes

  1. 1 2 3 New York City premiere
  2. ↑ Annabelle Lopez Ochoa's One replaced Sir Frederick Ashton’s The Dream Pas de Deux due to injury.
  3. 1 2 US premiere

Dancers

2008 New York City Center

notes

  1. 1 2 3 4 guest artist

2009 Fall for Dance

2009 New York City Center

Reviews

  1. 1 2 3 4 NY Times by Roslyn Sulcas, October 2, 2008
  2. ↑ Village Voice by Deborah Jowitt, October 7, 2008
  3. 1 2 Village Voice by Deborah Jowitt, October 7, 2008
  4. ↑ NY Times review by Gia Kourlas, October 30, 2009
  5. ↑ NY Post review by Leigh Witchel, October 30, 2009
  • Village Voice by Deborah Jowitt, November 10, 2009
  • Sulcas, Roslyn, 2009, "New Troupe Faces a Hard Reality," International Herald Tribune, October 24–25, pp. 15 & 19.

Footnotes

  1. ↑ "History". Morphoses. Retrieved May 4, 2010.
  2. ↑ NY Times, Daniel J. Wakin and Alastair macaulay, February 22, 2010
  3. ↑ Wonderland., Wheeldon, Christopher, choreographer (expression) Talbot, Joby, composer (expression) Crowley, Bob, set designer. Mason, Monica, director. MacFarlane, Oliver, producer. Haswell, Jonathan, film director. Cuthbertson, Lauren, 1984- dancer. Polunin, Sergei, dancer. Watson, Edward, 1976- dancer. Yanowsky, Zenaida, dancer. Saunders, Christopher, dancer. McRae, Steven, dancer. Underwood, Eric (Dancer) Beale, Simon Russell, dancer. Cervera, Ricardo, dancer. McNally, Kristen, dancer. Trzensimiech, Dawid, dancer. Wordsworth, Barry, conductor. Austin, Christopher, composer (expression) Wright, Nicholas, 1940- screenwriter. Katz, Natasha, lighting designer. Eveleigh, Steve, film editor. Ballet adaptation of (work): Carroll, Lewis, 1832-1898. Alice's adventures in, Alice's adventures in Wonderland, OCLC 905607974, retrieved June 16, 2022 {{citation}}: |first= has generic name (help)CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  4. ↑ Cameron, Penny (1999). A twist in the tale : five short stories. Pearson Education. ISBN 0-582-41816-X. OCLC 754874523.
  5. ↑ Lavoie, Jean-Pierre (April 22, 2011), "[PARTIE 4 Introduction]", Vieillir au pluriel, Presses de l'Université du Québec, pp. 385–392, doi:10.2307/j.ctv18ph6h8.26, retrieved June 16, 2022
  6. ↑ Cook, Nicholas (July 24, 2003), "Stravinsky conducts Stravinsky", The Cambridge Companion to Stravinsky, Cambridge University Press, pp. 175–191, doi:10.1017/ccol9780521663304.010, ISBN 9780521663779, retrieved June 16, 2022

References

  • Playbill, City Center, October 1 and 4, 2008
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