# 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. It was known as Morphoses/The Wheeldon Company until February 2010, when Wheeldon announced that he was leaving the company.

## Productions
### City Center, October 1–5, 2008
#### program one, October 1–3
##### Polyphonia

** 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

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

##### Six Fold Illuminate

** 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

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

##### One

* 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

** 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
** 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
** Rachmaninoff's music

#### notes

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

## Dancers
### 2008 New York City Center
#### notes

* 1 2 3 4 guest artist

### 2009 New York City Center
## Reviews

* 1 2 3 4 NY Times by Roslyn Sulcas, October 2, 2008
* ↑ Village Voice by Deborah Jowitt, October 7, 2008
* 1 2 Village Voice by Deborah Jowitt, October 7, 2008
* ↑ NY Times review by Gia Kourlas, October 30, 2009
* ↑ 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

* ↑ "History". Morphoses. Retrieved May 4, 2010.
* ↑ NY Times, Daniel J. Wakin and Alastair macaulay, February 22, 2010
* ↑ 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)
* ↑ Cameron, Penny (1999). A twist in the tale : five short stories. Pearson Education. ISBN 0-582-41816-X. OCLC 754874523.
* ↑ 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
* ↑ 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