Rita Moreno Set for WORDS ON DANCE with Christopher Wheeldon, 4/27

Words on Dance in association with Symphony Space, will present an evening with CHRISTOPHER WHEELDON, featuring the internationally acclaimed choreographer and director in rarely seen television and film clips and a live conversation conducted by the Academy/Tony/ Emmy/Grammy Award-winning actress/singer/dancer RITA MORENO, April 27, 7:00 PM at Symphony Space, 95th Street and Broadway.

The conversation will take place just two weeks after the opening night of the much-anticipated Broadway musical An American in Paris, directed and choreographed by Mr. Wheeldon, which received rave reviews when it premiered in Paris last December. Clips representing the work of both Mr. Wheeldon and Ms. Moreno (and a look at the Broadway production of An American in Paris, starring Robert Fairchild and Leanne Cope and based on the Oscar-winning 1951 film), will be shown.

In his Words on Dance conversation, Mr. Wheeldon will talk about his extraordinary career, including his memories of training at The Royal Ballet School beginning at the age of 11 and dancing with The Royal Ballet. He arrived at New York City Ballet in 1993, and was a company member before becoming the company's first artist in residence and first resident choreographer. In 2001 his Polyphonia, set to piano compositions by Ligeti and premiered by New York City Ballet, helped solidify his place in ballet history. Anna Kisselgoff of The New York Times pronounced the work "astonishingly fresh ... rich and spare at the same time, familiar in tone but inventively unpredictable." For the past decade and a half Wheeldon has worked extensively on both sides of the Atlantic, choreographing such acclaimed works as Liturgy, After the Rain, Fool's Paradise, Carousel (A Dance),The Nightingale and the Rose, The Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella, Aeternum, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and A Winter's Tale. The latter, a 2014 adaptation of the Shakespeare play with a score by Wheeldon's frequent collaborator Joby Talbot, was hailed as a "triumph" by the London Telegraph and "one of the most fully achieved story ballets to be staged at Covent Garden in years" by The Guardian. In February 2015 A Winter's Tale was screened in more than 400 movie theaters across the U.S. as part of the HD series of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.

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