Dance: In the Ear, Out the Foot

A forward-looking traditionalist, Christopher Wheeldon, 31, is ballet's hottest choreographer

Not many people in life," says Christopher Wheeldon, "have been lucky enough to fall into what they're meant to be or meant to do." Wheeldon is emphatically one of the lucky ones. He seemed to know where he was headed even at age 8, when he devised a rudimentary Swan Lake in which little girls hatched into cygnets from giant eggs in a school gym in the provincial town of Yeovil, England. If he could have dreamed up a future for himself then, it would have been exactly what has come true. Today he is the ballet world's most celebrated and...

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