List of Morphoses productions

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 Morphoses.[2]

Contents

Productions

City Center, October 1–5, 2008

program one, October 1–3

Polyphonia

[Review 1]

  • Wendy Whelan
  • Tiler Peck
  • Beatriz Stix-Brunell
  • Teresa Reichlen
Monotones II
Commedia

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

Six Fold Illuminate

[Review 1] [Review 3]

    • Emily Molnar's choreography
    • Reich's Variations for Winds, Strings and Keyboards
    • costumes by Narciso Rodriguez
    • lighting by Pierre Lavoie

program two, October 4–5

Commedia

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

One

[Programs 1] [Programs 2]

  • Annabelle Lopez Ochoa's choreography
    • Ter Vedhuis' music
    • costumes by Benjamin Briones
    • lighting by Lopez Ochoa
  • Rubinald Pronk
Monotones II
  • Tyler Angle
  • Adrian Danchig-Waring
Shutters Shut
    • Lightfoot León's choreography
    • text by Gertrude Stein
    • costumes and lighting by Lightfoot León
Fools’ Paradise

Guggenheim Museum, March 8–9, 2009

Commedia

Fall for Dance, September–October 2009

Softly as I Leave You

  • Rubinald Pronk

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
Softly as I Leave You
    • Lightfoot León’s choreography
    • Part's and Bach's music
  • Rubinald Pronk
Bolero
    • Alexei Ratmansky’s choreography
    • Ravel's music
new Harbour ballet

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

    • all piano program
Continuum
Softly as I Leave You
new Wheeldon ballet

notes

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

Dancers

2008 New York City Center

notes

  1. ^ a b c d guest artist

2009 Fall for Dance

  • Rubinald Pronk

2009 New York City Center

Reviews

  1. ^ a b c d NY Times by Roslyn Sulcas, October 2, 2008
  2. ^ Village Voice by Deborah Jowitt, October 7, 2008
  3. ^ a b 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. http://www.morphoses.org/?page=history. Retrieved May 4, 2010. 
  2. ^ NY Times, Daniel J. Wakin and Alastair macaulay, February 22, 2010

References

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