Christopher Wheeldon’s Dance Revolution

“It may be too soon to define his signature steps or say what is unmistakably the Wheeldon aesthetic–and it is certainly too soon to say whether his company will meet the critic Arlene Croce’s definition of a great dance company: ‘a vision of the universe and the individual’s place in it.’ But to sit in an audience waiting for the curtain to go up on a Wheeldon premiere is to feel that uncommon crackle of anticipation.”