Christopher Wheeldon: “Most of the boys at the ballet school were locked up, scared that our parents would deny us.”
One weekend in the early 1990s on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, 19-year-old dancer Christopher Wheeldon found himself on a loose end. He had recently moved from London to join the New York City Ballet. “I hadn’t made any friends yet and I remember a very lonely Sunday afternoon going to the movies,” Wheeldon says. “There …