List of Morphoses productions

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
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]

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

Commedia
    • Christopher Wheeldon’s choreography
    • Stravinsky's music

Softly as I Leave You
    • Lightfoot León’s choreography
    • Pärt and Bach's music

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

Dancers

2008 New York City Center

notes
  1. guest artist

2009 Fall for Dance

2009 New York City Center

Reviews
  1. NY Times by Roslyn Sulcas, October 2, 2008
  2. Village Voice by Deborah Jowitt, October 7, 2008
  3. 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)
  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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