Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Before Polyphonia, which turns 10 this month, Christopher Wheeldon’s pieces for the Royal Ballet, whose school he ...

Miami City Ballet added a striking new facet to its profile with the startling, off-kilter architecture of Christopher Wheeldon’s Polyphonia on its season-opening program. But it was Serenade, the ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Like couture on an elegant woman, good choreography makes good dancers look even better. The Royal Ballet is ...

Since the arrival of Peter Boal in Seattle to assume the artistic control of Pacific Northwest Ballet, all sorts of choreographers have been introduced to the company. However, none is brighter than ...

There was much to admire at Pacific Northwest Ballet Thursday night at McCaw Hall, and some not to admire. Unqualified praise goes to two ballets -- Christopher Wheeldon's "Polyphonia" and Nacho Duato ...

Dive in to the origin story of a ballet that remains on the cutting edge over 20 years later, and see the music of Polyphonia this winter on the Wheeldon + Martins + Peck program opening January 25, ...

They're opposites, but alike in why they fail. Scarlett’s Sweet Violets is an impenetrable jangle of narrative in the old style; McGregor’s Carbon Life an unyielding jangle of amoeba-like dance in the ...

While it’s still too early for a coronation, British-born Christopher Wheeldon’s inventive Polyphonia, created in 2001 for the New York City Ballet, nevertheless endures as an early, breakthrough ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Edward Watson, Olivia Cowley and onstage band with Mark Ronson on bass in Wayne McGregor's Carbon Life. Credit: Photo: Alistair Muir Sex, violence, partial nudity, loud rock music, bad language – this ...