''Rococo Variations'' is the last ballet made by

Christopher Wheeldon Christopher Peter Wheeldon (born 22 March 1973) is an English international choreographer of contemporary ballet. Early life Born in Yeovil, Somerset, to an engineer and a physical therapist, Wheeldon began training to be a ballet dancer at th ...

during his tenure as

New York City Ballet New York City Ballet (NYCB) is a ballet company founded in 1948 by choreographer George Balanchine and Lincoln Kirstein. Balanchine and Jerome Robbins are considered the founding choreographers of the company. Léon Barzin was the company's fir ...

's first resident choreographer; it was made to Tschaikovsky's '' Variations on a Rococo Theme'' for violoncello and orchestra in A major Op. 33 (1876–77). The premiere took place on Thursday, 7 February 2008 at the New York State Theater,

Lincoln Center Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts (also simply known as Lincoln Center) is a complex of buildings in the Lincoln Square neighborhood on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. It has thirty indoor and outdoor facilities and is host to 5 ...

, with costumes by Holly Hynes.

Original cast

Sterling Hyltin Sterling Hyltin is an American ballet dancer. She was a principal dancer at the New York City Ballet. Early life and training Hyltin was born in Amarillo, Texas. She wanted to be a figure skater, and would train before school started. However, H ...

* Sara Mearns * Giovanni Villalobos * Adrian Danchig-Waring

References

*''Repertory Week'', NYCB, Spring season, 2008 repertory, week 5 *''

Playbill ''Playbill'' is an American monthly magazine for Audience, theatergoers. Although there is a subscription issue available for home delivery, most copies of ''Playbill'' are printed for particular productions and distributed at the door as the ...

'', New York City Ballet, Thursday, 29 May 2008

Reviews

NY Times
by Alastair Macaulay, 9 February 2008
Village Voice
by Deborah Jowitt, 5 February 2008 {{col-end Ballets by Christopher Wheeldon Ballets to the music of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 2008 ballets New York City Ballet repertory Ballets designed by Holly Hynes