Internationally acclaimed choreographer Christopher Wheeldon first trained at The Royal Ballet School and then joined the Royal Ballet in 1991 and New York City Ballet (NYCB) in 1993, where he was named Soloist in 1998. He was the first-ever Artist in Residence for NYCB in 2000/01 and became Resident Choreographer in 2001. In 2007, he founded Morphoses/The Wheeldon Company and was appointed Associate Artist at Sadler’s Wells Theatre in London. Currently, he is Artistic Associate for The Royal Ballet.

Wheeldon’s works have won the Benois de la Danse, were part of the London 2012 Olympics Closing Ceremony and have been presented by many world renowned ballet and opera companies.

His many successes include the Martin E. Segal Award, American Choreography Award, Dance Magazine Award, London Critic’s Circle Award, Olivier Award, Leonide Massine Prize, Tony Award for Best Choreography and an Outer Critics Award for Best Choreography and Direction. In 2016, Wheeldon was made an Honorary Fellow of American Academy of Arts and Science and was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE).

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A répétiteur for Christopher Wheeldon, Jason Fowler has worked with international companies like The Royal Ballet, Sadler’s Wells Theatre, Dortmund Ballet, Royal Ballet of Flanders and The Australian Ballet to stage Wheeldon’s ballets all over the globe. He began his ballet training at the Dallas Ballet Center when he was eight years old and later attended the School of American Ballet in 1993. Fowler then became an Apprentice with New York City Ballet in 1995, joined as a member of Corps de Ballet in 1996 and was named Soloist in 2006. He performed numerous featured and principal roles, including works by George Balanchine and Jerome Robbins, as well as taught master classes and workshops. Fowler also choreographed ballets for Dallas Ballet Company and was the Ballet Master for Morphoses/The Wheeldon Ballet in addition to being a teacher and répétiteur.

Trey McIntyre is a renowned choreographer and photographer, whose
choreographic works have been performed by Stuttgart Ballet, American Ballet Theatre, Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, New York City Ballet, The Washington Ballet, San Francisco Ballet and more.

Born in Kansas, US, McIntyre trained at North Carolina School of the Arts and Houston Ballet Academy. He started as Choreographic Apprentice for Houston Ballet in 1989 and later became the Company's Choreographic Associate. As a freelance artist for over 25 years, he has produced over 100 works.

McIntyre is a United States Artists Fellow and the recipient of numerous awards: Choo San Goh Award for Choreography, Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Society of Arts and Letters and grants for choreography from the National Endowment for the Arts. In 2005, he founded his dance company Trey McIntyre Project with tremendous success. In 2014, the company transformed and has focused more on feature-length documentaries.

For his most recent works, please visit: patreon.com/treymcintyre

Erin Mahoney Du is currently an adjunct faculty member at George Mason University and a faculty member at Berrend Dance Centre. She also served as repititeur of Septime Webre’s and Trey McIntyre’s ballets.Received formal ballet training at Princeton Ballet School, Mahoney Du was a dancer with American Repertory Ballet, The Washington Ballet and The Suzanne Farrell Ballet where she performed many leading and soloist roles in classical and neoclassical ballets by George Balanchine, Paul Taylor, William Forsythe, Nacho Duato, Twyla Tharp, Christopher Wheeldon, Trey McIntyre, and Septime Webre and more.Mahoney Du joined American Dance Institute in 2008 and was School Director during 2010 to Spring 2015. She became one of the Co-Directors of the Future Artist Initiative in 2016 and has been an adjunct faculty member and guest teacher at Towson University.

Septime Webre is an internationally recognised ballet director, choreographer, educator and advocate. He joined Hong Kong Ballet as its Artistic Director in July 2017 after 17 years as Artistic Director of The Washington Ballet in Washington DC, US from 1999-2016. Previously he served as Artistic Director of the American Repertory Ballet, based in Princeton, New Jersey, US from 1993-1999. In addition, Webre has served as the Artistic Director of Halcyon, a Washington DC-based foundation, launching an annual international Festival for Creativity in Washington DC in June 2018.

During Webre’s tenure at The Washington Ballet, the institution’s budget grew by 500%, and it enjoyed unprecedented advances in the scope and quality of its work on stage, in the size and reach of its professional school and in the development of several far-reaching community engagement programmes that he founded. Webre also launched an array of artistic initiatives, including The American Experience, which developed great works of literature like The Great Gatsby and Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises into full-length ballets.

As a choreographer, Webre’s works appear in the repertoires of ballet companies throughout North America, including Pacific Northwest Ballet, Les Grands Ballets Canadiens, Colorado Ballet, Ballet West, Atlanta Ballet, Cincinnati Ballet, Ballet Austin, Ballet Memphis, Milwaukee Ballet, Kansas City Ballet, Ballet Concierto de Puerto Rico, and many others, and he has worked frequently in theatre as well as opera. His new work for HKB, Romeo + Juliet, set in 1960s Hong Kong, will have its world premiere in June 2021. As a dancer, Webre was featured in solo and principal roles from the classical repertoire as well as in contemporary works by choreographers such as Twyla Tharp, Paul Taylor and Merce Cunningham. He has served on the board of Dance/USA and on the juries of a number of international ballet competitions, including those in Varna, Bulgaria, Istanbul, Cape Town, New York and Seoul. Webre's work has received numerous honors, grants and awards. He holds a degree in History/Pre-Law from the University of Texas at Austin and is the seventh son in a large, boisterous Cuban-American family.

Originally from Taiwan, David Liu began formal training in both dance and figure skating in the US at age eight. He attended the School of American Ballet on full scholarship, and was selected by George Balanchine to train in a special class for young talented dancers. Liu continued to study dance at the Jose Limon Institute and performed professionally with Coreoarte Dance Company and H.T. Chen and Dancers, and later guest performed with City Contemporary Dance Company (CCDC). He has also choreographed for CCDC, Hong Kong Ballet and Singapore Dance Theatre.Liu completed his Gaga teacher certification in 2012 and obtained a Master of Fine Arts Degree in Dance in 2014. He was the Artistic Director of the 2015 Hong Kong Dance Award and currently teaches Gaga at The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts.