Second Look.(Christopher Wheeldon )

No ballet company in the United States is being watched more closely right now than Morphoses, the troupe that Christopher Wheeldon founded last year. Wheeldon was the first really interesting choreographer to turn up in American ballet after the death of George Balanchine, in 1983. Born in England and trained at the Royal Ballet School, in London, Wheeldon danced at the Royal for two years and then, in 1993, transferred to New York City Ballet. He had begun choreographing in England, but in America he went at it harder, and in 2000, at the age of twenty-eight--very early for a dancer--he quit performing in order to make ballets full time. City Ballet obligingly made him ...