4 Quotes by Christopher Wheeldon

Those Degas paintings tell a story that's poignant and very dark,

There isn't the same culture of young dancers having to wait in line. They throw kids into the big roles, just to give them a chance.

There's a bit of a strange twist to my ending I won't say what. I was anxious not to abandon the romance, the fairy tale, the magic in this ballet but at the same time I wanted to reach that from an everyday world, for him to create that romantic notion of an ideal woman for himself not to go skipping through some fairy-tale woods and stumble across an enchanted swan-woman.

It was great to go out from New York for a long period and separate what was me from all that I'd learned there.