Christopher Wheeldon, who has ridden a wave of almost universally positive press to his position at the top of the dance world, has lately been feeling the pain of the press’s rougher side. Judith Mackrell says it was bound to happen eventually. “It has been years since anyone planned a new ballet company of the scale and ambition Wheeldon was talking about, [and] even before Morphoses had set foot on stage, the volume of media coverage began to turn counter-productive.”