List of Morphoses productions

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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[]

• • Frederick Ashton’s choreography
  • Satie's Trois Gymnopédie
  • costumes and lighting by Ashton

Commedia[]

^{[Programs 1][Review 1][Review 2]}

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

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]}

• • 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]}

• Annabelle Lopez Ochoa's choreography
  • Jacob Ter Vedhuis' music
  • costumes by Benjamin Briones
  • lighting by Lopez Ochoa

Monotones II[]

• • Frederick Ashton’s choreography
  • Satie's Trois Gymnopédie
  • costumes and lighting by Ashton

Shutters Shut[]

• • Lightfoot León's choreography
  • text by Gertrude Stein
  • costumes and lighting by Lightfoot León

Fools’ Paradise[]

• Christopher Wheeldon’s choreography
  • music by Joby Talbot, adapted for string orchestra from his score for the British Film Institute's release of silent film The Dying Swan
  • costumes by Narciso Rodriguez
  • lighting by Penny Jacobus

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's music

Softly as I Leave You[]

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

Bolero[]

• • Alexei Ratmansky’s choreography
  • Ravel's music

new Harbour ballet[]

• • Tim Harbour’s choreography ^{[Programs 3]}
  • Edwards' music

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[]

Dancers[]

2008 New York City Center[]

notes[]

2009 Fall for Dance[]

2009 New York City Center[]

Reviews[]

• 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[]

References[]

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

External links[]

• Morphoses, official website
• City Center, official website
• Sadler's Wells, official website
  • Morphoses on the Sadler's Wells website
• Vail International Dance Festival: Morphoses dancer bios
• Archival footage of Morphoses performing at the Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival in 2012