Claudia Schreier & Company
Samuel Akins grew up in Birmingham Alabama, where he began his dance training at the Alabama School of Fine Arts. At fourteen, he moved to New York to continue training at the School of American Ballet. After four years at SAB, Mr. Akins moved to Los Angeles to join Los Angeles Ballet where he is entering his fourth season. He has danced in original productions of Swan Lake, Giselle, Don Quixote, The Nutcracker and Sleeping Beauty as well as in pieces choreographed by contemporary choreographers and by George Balanchine.
Jared Angle was born in Altoona, Pennsylvania where he began his early dance training at age six at the Allegheny Ballet Academy. He entered the School of American Ballet, the official school of New York City Ballet, in the fall of 1996. In 1997, Mr. Angle received the Rudolf Nureyev Scholarship to continue his training at SAB for the 1997-1998 school year. Mr. Angle became an apprentice with New York City Ballet in March 1998 and joined the Company as a member of the Corps de Ballet in July 1998. He was promoted to the rank of Soloist in February 2001. On November 11, 2005, Mr. Angle was promoted to principal dancer following a performance during a Company visit to Denmark for the reopening of the Tivoli Concert Hall.
Michael Breeden was born in Lexington, KY. He graduated from the School of American Ballet and then danced for Pennsylvania Ballet, Oregon Ballet Theatre and The Suzanne Farrell Ballet. Mr. Breeden danced with Miami City Ballet for eleven years, performing principal roles in works by George Balanchine (Symphony in Three Movements, Divertimento No. 15), Jerome Robbins (Dances At a Gathering), Justin Peck (Heatscape, Year of the Rabbit), Liam Scarlett (Euphotic), Paul Taylor (Company B), and Twyla Tharp (In the Upper Room). He has recently relocated to New York City to pursue new creative interests.
Gilbert Bolden III is a recent graduate of The School of American Ballet. He began his dance training at the age of nine but began pursuing ballet seriously at thirteen when he started attending Idyllwild Arts Academy in California. After two years, he transferred to The Rock School for Dance Education in Philadelphia and was then accepted into SAB's Winter Term. At SAB, he danced leading roles in Jerome Robbins's Fanfare, George Balanchine's The Four Temperaments, Christopher Wheeldon's Scenes De Ballet, and in multiple choreography projects. Mr. Bolden will be joining the New York City Ballet as an apprentice for their 2017-18 season.
Holly Curran trained and graduated from the Rock School in Philadelphia under the direction of Bo and Stephanie Spasoff. Since then, she has danced with Ballet Austin, BalletFleming, Ballet Montana, New Chamber Ballet, Terra Firma Dance Theatre, the Lyric Opera Of Chicago, the Metropolitan Opera, and the Little Orchestra Society. As a dancer in the Columbia Ballet Collaborative, she has performed in works by Michele Wiles, Roya Carreras, Charles Askegard, and Caitlin Trainor, as well as George Balanchine’s Serenade. She has worked additionally with Thang Dao, Alex Ketley, Alessio Silvestrin, Christopher Rudd, Helen Pickett, Tim Rushton, Edgar Zendejas, Itzik Galili, Steven Hoggett, and Matthew Brookoff.
Cameron Dieck joined the Corps de Ballet of New York City Ballet in 2008 after training at the School of American Ballet. Mr. Dieck has performed featured roles in George Balanchine’s Coppélia, The Four Temperaments, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Nutcracker, Orpheus, Slaughter on Tenth Avenue, Swan Lake, and Tschaikovsky Piano Concerto No. 2; Peter Martins’ The Sleeping Beauty and Swan Lake; and Jerome Robbins’ The Concert, Glass Pieces, and Moves. He has originated corps roles in Peter Martins’ Ocean’s Kingdom, Justin Peck’s The Most Incredible Thing, Benjamin Millepied’s Why am I not where you are, Alexei Ratmansky’s Namouna, A Grand Divertissement, and Christopher Wheeldon’s American Rhapsody.
Da’Von Doane began his training at the Salisbury Studio of Dance and at the Atlantic Contemporary Ballet Theatre. In 2008, Mr. Doane joined the Dance Theatre of Harlem Ensemble, and in the fall of 2009, he began dancing and touring as part of Dance Theatre of Harlem. Since then, he has performed roles such as Agon and Tchaikovsky Pas de Deux by George Balanchine, the “Black Swan Pas de Deux” from Swan Lake, and contemporary ballets created by choreographers such as Nacho Duato, Robert Garland, Helen Pickett, Donald Byrd, Arthur Mitchell, Darrel Moultrie, Francesca Harper, and John Alleyne. As a guest artist, Mr. Doane has performed with companies such as Classical Contemporary Ballet Theatre and Ballet Noir. In 2014, Mr. Doane was named one of Dance Magazine’s “Top 25 to Watch,” and he recently performed in the Vail International Dance Festival’s International Evenings of Dance as well as the Now:Premiers Program.
Cassidy Hall began her training at Pioneer Valley Ballet in Northampton, Massachusetts with Thomas Vacanti and Maryanne Kodzis. She attended summer courses at American Ballet Theatre, San Francisco Ballet, School of American Ballet and Pacific Northwest Ballet on scholarship. She continued her training at the School of American Ballet before joining Pennsylvania Ballet II, where she performed in works by Balanchine, Wheeldon, Petipa and Neenan. Ms. Hall now dances for The Suzanne Farrell Ballet and attends Columbia University.
Elinor Hitt was born in Washington, D.C., and received her dance training at the Washington School of Ballet. At age sixteen, Elinor was accepted to the School of American Ballet in New York. Upon graduation, she joined the Pennsylvania Ballet, dancing in ballets by George Balanchine, William Forsythe, and Christopher Wheeldon. She is currently a member of the Corps de Callet with The Suzanne Farrell Ballet where she has performed featured roles in Balanchine ballets, notably Stars and Stripes and Gounod Symphony. Elinor is pursuing a degree in English at Columbia University.
Gabriel Hyman graduated with honors from the Ailey/Fordham BFA Program in Dance as a Bill and Melinda Gates Millennium Scholar and a Glorya Kaufman Dance Scholar. He attended summer programs under full scholarship at The Ailey School, The School at Jacob's Pillow, and Nederlands Dans Theater. Mr. Hyman performed for President Obama and other international delegates at Germany's Hannover Messe 2016 and has been a featured dancer in Jennah Bell's music video, "John Forbid.” He has also appeared on Good Morning America as well as on Cosmopolitan Body's "Yoga for Dancers.” Most recently, Mr. Hyman has toured with Jeremy McQueen’s “The Black Iris Project” and Ailey II.
Ramona Kelley is from Berkeley, CA where she began her training at Berkeley Ballet Theater. She went on to earn a BFA in Dance from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts where she performed works by Ronald K Brown and William Forsythe. Ms. Kelley danced the principal role of 'Betsy' in the touring production of Twyla Tharp's Come Fly Away. She has performed and toured extensively with Twyla Tharp Dance, Oakland Ballet, The Phantom of the Opera (25th Anniversary Tour) and Cherylyn Lavagnino Dance among others.
Evelyn Kocak studied for three years on scholarship at The School of American Ballet before joining New York City Ballet as an apprentice in 2004. Ms. Kocak joined the Staatsballett Berlin as a member of the Corps de Ballet in 2006, and she danced there for four seasons. She returned to the states to join Pennsylvania Ballet for the 2010-2011 season and was promoted to Soloist for the 2012-2013 season. As a freelance artist, Ms. Kocak has most recently danced with the Seattle Symphony and Tom Gold Dance.
Francis Lawrence was born in Melbourne, Australia, and he studied with Lorraine Blackbourn before furthering his studies at the Australian Ballet School. He has danced with The Australian Ballet Company, New York Theatre Ballet, Grand Rapids Ballet and is currently in his sixth season with Dance Theatre of Harlem. Mr. Lawrence has performed in various classical ballets and also modern and contemporary repertoire by choreographers such as George Balanchine, Nacho Duato, Twyla Tharp, Jiri Kylian, Jose Limon, Alvin Ailey, Paul Taylor, Ulysses Dove, Lew Christensen, John Neumeier, Olivier Weavers, Mario Radacovsky, Donald Byrd, Darrel Grand Moultrie and Robert Garland. Mr. Lawrence is also an active teacher and choreographer.
Tiffany Mangulabnan was born and raised in Manila, Philippines. She studied ballet at the Philippine Ballet Theatre Conservatoire before going on to dance professionally with the Philippine Ballet Theatre, where she was a Principal Dancer from 2010-2012. In 2012, Ms. Mangulabnan moved to New York City and danced with BalletNext under the direction of Michele Wiles until 2016. She currently works as a freelance dancer in NYC with choreographers such as Emery LeCrone, Julia Gleich, Matthew Brookoff and Stuart Loungway. She also co-directs, choreographs and dances for konverjdans, the contemporary ballet company she co-founded with Jordan Miller and Amy Saunder in 2016.
Jordan Miller moved to New York at the age of sixteen to study at the School of American Ballet. She joined the New York City Ballet two years later and performed as an apprentice for several seasons. As a freelance dancer, Ms. Miller has danced professionally with renowned companies such as The Pennsylvania Ballet, Aspen Santa Fe Ballet, The Ashley Bouder Project, BalletNext, Gleich Dances and Brookoff Dance Repertory Ensemble. In 2016, she co-founded konverjdans, a contemporary ballet company that celebrates the convergence of different backgrounds and experiences by creating work in collaboration with artists from both musical and visual realms.
Amber Neff began her training in New York at The Dance Design School, where she completed the RAD vocational examinations. She went on to train at the HARID Conservatory on full scholarship and later graduated from the the Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis School at American Ballet Theater. Ms. Neff has danced with Boston Ballet, Richmond Ballet, and the Eglevsky Ballet, and is currently performing with The Suzanne Farrell Ballet, New Chamber Ballet, Intermezzo Dance Company and Claudia Schreier & Company.
Jasmine Perry grew up in Charlotte, NC where she began her ballet training at North Carolina Dance Theater under Patricia McBride and Jean-Pierre Bonnefoux. At fourteen, she began attending the School of American Ballet, and she also attended various summer training programs such as Pacific Northwest Ballet, Houston Ballet, and Miami City Ballet. Upon graduation, Ms. Perry joined Los Angeles Ballet, where she has performed in various Balanchine and classical repertory. Most recently, to celebrate composer John Adams’ 70th birthday, Ms. Perry was a guest solo artist in Adam’s opera Nixon in China. This is her third season as an artist with Los Angeles Ballet.
Unity Phelan was born in Princeton, New Jersey and began her dance training at the age of five at the Princeton Ballet School, where her teachers included Douglas Martin, Maria Youskevitch, and Mary Barton. During the summers of 2008 and 2009, Ms. Phelan attended the summer sessions at the School of American Ballet, the official school of New York City Ballet, and enrolled as a full-time student in fall of 2009. She became an apprentice with NYCB in December 2012 and joined the Company as a member of the Corps de Ballet in November 2013. In February 2017, Ms. Phelan was promoted to Soloist.
Elizabeth Claire Walker trained at the Ballet School of Stamford and JKO School at ABT before joining Los Angeles Ballet in 2006. In 2007, she began her studies at Harvard University, continuing as a freelance dance career while earning her college degree. She was the 2011 recipient of the Suzanne Farrell Dance Prize for Outstanding Artistry in the Field of Dance upon graduation. Since returning to Los Angeles Ballet, Ms. Walker has performed leading roles in the Balanchine, classical, and contemporary repertory, leading to her recent promotion to Soloist.
Craig Wasserman received his ballet training at The School of American Ballet on scholarship. While at SAB, Wasserman appeared in New York City Ballet’s productions of George Balanchine’s The Nutcracker™, Swan Lake, and Romeo and Juliet. Mr. Wasserman joined Pennsylvania Ballet in 2012. His Principal roles include Basilio in Don Quixote, The Cavalier in George Balanchine’s The Nutcracker, and Conrad in Le Corsaire. He has also performed many featured roles, including Jerome Robbins’ Fancy Free (Second Sailor), Trey McIntyre’s The Accidental, Wayne McGregor’s Chroma, Liam Scarlett’s Asphodel Meadows Justin Peck’s Chutes and Ladders (Pas de Deux), and George Balanchine’s The Four Temperments (Sangunic), Tarantella, and Emeralds.
Wendy Whelan danced for New York City Ballet from 1984-2014. She has performed virtually every major Balanchine role and worked closely with choreographers such as Jerome Robbins. She has also originated leading roles in works by many of today’s leading choreographers. In 2015, Ms. Whelan began developing new collaborations within the contemporary dance world, most recently for Joyce Theater Productions, BAM Nextwave Festival and the Royal Opera House. theatrical release of her new documentary Restless Creature: Wendy Whelan, based on Whelan's transition from classical to contemporary dance, is now playing in cinemas across the country.
Jared Angle was born in Altoona, Pennsylvania where he began his early dance training at age six at the Allegheny Ballet Academy. He entered the School of American Ballet, the official school of New York City Ballet, in the fall of 1996. In 1997, Mr. Angle received the Rudolf Nureyev Scholarship to continue his training at SAB for the 1997-1998 school year. Mr. Angle became an apprentice with New York City Ballet in March 1998 and joined the Company as a member of the Corps de Ballet in July 1998. He was promoted to the rank of Soloist in February 2001. On November 11, 2005, Mr. Angle was promoted to principal dancer following a performance during a Company visit to Denmark for the reopening of the Tivoli Concert Hall.
Michael Breeden was born in Lexington, KY. He graduated from the School of American Ballet and then danced for Pennsylvania Ballet, Oregon Ballet Theatre and The Suzanne Farrell Ballet. Mr. Breeden danced with Miami City Ballet for eleven years, performing principal roles in works by George Balanchine (Symphony in Three Movements, Divertimento No. 15), Jerome Robbins (Dances At a Gathering), Justin Peck (Heatscape, Year of the Rabbit), Liam Scarlett (Euphotic), Paul Taylor (Company B), and Twyla Tharp (In the Upper Room). He has recently relocated to New York City to pursue new creative interests.
Gilbert Bolden III is a recent graduate of The School of American Ballet. He began his dance training at the age of nine but began pursuing ballet seriously at thirteen when he started attending Idyllwild Arts Academy in California. After two years, he transferred to The Rock School for Dance Education in Philadelphia and was then accepted into SAB's Winter Term. At SAB, he danced leading roles in Jerome Robbins's Fanfare, George Balanchine's The Four Temperaments, Christopher Wheeldon's Scenes De Ballet, and in multiple choreography projects. Mr. Bolden will be joining the New York City Ballet as an apprentice for their 2017-18 season.
Holly Curran trained and graduated from the Rock School in Philadelphia under the direction of Bo and Stephanie Spasoff. Since then, she has danced with Ballet Austin, BalletFleming, Ballet Montana, New Chamber Ballet, Terra Firma Dance Theatre, the Lyric Opera Of Chicago, the Metropolitan Opera, and the Little Orchestra Society. As a dancer in the Columbia Ballet Collaborative, she has performed in works by Michele Wiles, Roya Carreras, Charles Askegard, and Caitlin Trainor, as well as George Balanchine’s Serenade. She has worked additionally with Thang Dao, Alex Ketley, Alessio Silvestrin, Christopher Rudd, Helen Pickett, Tim Rushton, Edgar Zendejas, Itzik Galili, Steven Hoggett, and Matthew Brookoff.
Cameron Dieck joined the Corps de Ballet of New York City Ballet in 2008 after training at the School of American Ballet. Mr. Dieck has performed featured roles in George Balanchine’s Coppélia, The Four Temperaments, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Nutcracker, Orpheus, Slaughter on Tenth Avenue, Swan Lake, and Tschaikovsky Piano Concerto No. 2; Peter Martins’ The Sleeping Beauty and Swan Lake; and Jerome Robbins’ The Concert, Glass Pieces, and Moves. He has originated corps roles in Peter Martins’ Ocean’s Kingdom, Justin Peck’s The Most Incredible Thing, Benjamin Millepied’s Why am I not where you are, Alexei Ratmansky’s Namouna, A Grand Divertissement, and Christopher Wheeldon’s American Rhapsody.
Da’Von Doane began his training at the Salisbury Studio of Dance and at the Atlantic Contemporary Ballet Theatre. In 2008, Mr. Doane joined the Dance Theatre of Harlem Ensemble, and in the fall of 2009, he began dancing and touring as part of Dance Theatre of Harlem. Since then, he has performed roles such as Agon and Tchaikovsky Pas de Deux by George Balanchine, the “Black Swan Pas de Deux” from Swan Lake, and contemporary ballets created by choreographers such as Nacho Duato, Robert Garland, Helen Pickett, Donald Byrd, Arthur Mitchell, Darrel Moultrie, Francesca Harper, and John Alleyne. As a guest artist, Mr. Doane has performed with companies such as Classical Contemporary Ballet Theatre and Ballet Noir. In 2014, Mr. Doane was named one of Dance Magazine’s “Top 25 to Watch,” and he recently performed in the Vail International Dance Festival’s International Evenings of Dance as well as the Now:Premiers Program.
Cassidy Hall began her training at Pioneer Valley Ballet in Northampton, Massachusetts with Thomas Vacanti and Maryanne Kodzis. She attended summer courses at American Ballet Theatre, San Francisco Ballet, School of American Ballet and Pacific Northwest Ballet on scholarship. She continued her training at the School of American Ballet before joining Pennsylvania Ballet II, where she performed in works by Balanchine, Wheeldon, Petipa and Neenan. Ms. Hall now dances for The Suzanne Farrell Ballet and attends Columbia University.
Elinor Hitt was born in Washington, D.C., and received her dance training at the Washington School of Ballet. At age sixteen, Elinor was accepted to the School of American Ballet in New York. Upon graduation, she joined the Pennsylvania Ballet, dancing in ballets by George Balanchine, William Forsythe, and Christopher Wheeldon. She is currently a member of the Corps de Callet with The Suzanne Farrell Ballet where she has performed featured roles in Balanchine ballets, notably Stars and Stripes and Gounod Symphony. Elinor is pursuing a degree in English at Columbia University.
Gabriel Hyman graduated with honors from the Ailey/Fordham BFA Program in Dance as a Bill and Melinda Gates Millennium Scholar and a Glorya Kaufman Dance Scholar. He attended summer programs under full scholarship at The Ailey School, The School at Jacob's Pillow, and Nederlands Dans Theater. Mr. Hyman performed for President Obama and other international delegates at Germany's Hannover Messe 2016 and has been a featured dancer in Jennah Bell's music video, "John Forbid.” He has also appeared on Good Morning America as well as on Cosmopolitan Body's "Yoga for Dancers.” Most recently, Mr. Hyman has toured with Jeremy McQueen’s “The Black Iris Project” and Ailey II.
Ramona Kelley is from Berkeley, CA where she began her training at Berkeley Ballet Theater. She went on to earn a BFA in Dance from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts where she performed works by Ronald K Brown and William Forsythe. Ms. Kelley danced the principal role of 'Betsy' in the touring production of Twyla Tharp's Come Fly Away. She has performed and toured extensively with Twyla Tharp Dance, Oakland Ballet, The Phantom of the Opera (25th Anniversary Tour) and Cherylyn Lavagnino Dance among others.
Evelyn Kocak studied for three years on scholarship at The School of American Ballet before joining New York City Ballet as an apprentice in 2004. Ms. Kocak joined the Staatsballett Berlin as a member of the Corps de Ballet in 2006, and she danced there for four seasons. She returned to the states to join Pennsylvania Ballet for the 2010-2011 season and was promoted to Soloist for the 2012-2013 season. As a freelance artist, Ms. Kocak has most recently danced with the Seattle Symphony and Tom Gold Dance.
Francis Lawrence was born in Melbourne, Australia, and he studied with Lorraine Blackbourn before furthering his studies at the Australian Ballet School. He has danced with The Australian Ballet Company, New York Theatre Ballet, Grand Rapids Ballet and is currently in his sixth season with Dance Theatre of Harlem. Mr. Lawrence has performed in various classical ballets and also modern and contemporary repertoire by choreographers such as George Balanchine, Nacho Duato, Twyla Tharp, Jiri Kylian, Jose Limon, Alvin Ailey, Paul Taylor, Ulysses Dove, Lew Christensen, John Neumeier, Olivier Weavers, Mario Radacovsky, Donald Byrd, Darrel Grand Moultrie and Robert Garland. Mr. Lawrence is also an active teacher and choreographer.
Tiffany Mangulabnan was born and raised in Manila, Philippines. She studied ballet at the Philippine Ballet Theatre Conservatoire before going on to dance professionally with the Philippine Ballet Theatre, where she was a Principal Dancer from 2010-2012. In 2012, Ms. Mangulabnan moved to New York City and danced with BalletNext under the direction of Michele Wiles until 2016. She currently works as a freelance dancer in NYC with choreographers such as Emery LeCrone, Julia Gleich, Matthew Brookoff and Stuart Loungway. She also co-directs, choreographs and dances for konverjdans, the contemporary ballet company she co-founded with Jordan Miller and Amy Saunder in 2016.
Jordan Miller moved to New York at the age of sixteen to study at the School of American Ballet. She joined the New York City Ballet two years later and performed as an apprentice for several seasons. As a freelance dancer, Ms. Miller has danced professionally with renowned companies such as The Pennsylvania Ballet, Aspen Santa Fe Ballet, The Ashley Bouder Project, BalletNext, Gleich Dances and Brookoff Dance Repertory Ensemble. In 2016, she co-founded konverjdans, a contemporary ballet company that celebrates the convergence of different backgrounds and experiences by creating work in collaboration with artists from both musical and visual realms.
Amber Neff began her training in New York at The Dance Design School, where she completed the RAD vocational examinations. She went on to train at the HARID Conservatory on full scholarship and later graduated from the the Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis School at American Ballet Theater. Ms. Neff has danced with Boston Ballet, Richmond Ballet, and the Eglevsky Ballet, and is currently performing with The Suzanne Farrell Ballet, New Chamber Ballet, Intermezzo Dance Company and Claudia Schreier & Company.
Jasmine Perry grew up in Charlotte, NC where she began her ballet training at North Carolina Dance Theater under Patricia McBride and Jean-Pierre Bonnefoux. At fourteen, she began attending the School of American Ballet, and she also attended various summer training programs such as Pacific Northwest Ballet, Houston Ballet, and Miami City Ballet. Upon graduation, Ms. Perry joined Los Angeles Ballet, where she has performed in various Balanchine and classical repertory. Most recently, to celebrate composer John Adams’ 70th birthday, Ms. Perry was a guest solo artist in Adam’s opera Nixon in China. This is her third season as an artist with Los Angeles Ballet.
Unity Phelan was born in Princeton, New Jersey and began her dance training at the age of five at the Princeton Ballet School, where her teachers included Douglas Martin, Maria Youskevitch, and Mary Barton. During the summers of 2008 and 2009, Ms. Phelan attended the summer sessions at the School of American Ballet, the official school of New York City Ballet, and enrolled as a full-time student in fall of 2009. She became an apprentice with NYCB in December 2012 and joined the Company as a member of the Corps de Ballet in November 2013. In February 2017, Ms. Phelan was promoted to Soloist.
Elizabeth Claire Walker trained at the Ballet School of Stamford and JKO School at ABT before joining Los Angeles Ballet in 2006. In 2007, she began her studies at Harvard University, continuing as a freelance dance career while earning her college degree. She was the 2011 recipient of the Suzanne Farrell Dance Prize for Outstanding Artistry in the Field of Dance upon graduation. Since returning to Los Angeles Ballet, Ms. Walker has performed leading roles in the Balanchine, classical, and contemporary repertory, leading to her recent promotion to Soloist.
Craig Wasserman received his ballet training at The School of American Ballet on scholarship. While at SAB, Wasserman appeared in New York City Ballet’s productions of George Balanchine’s The Nutcracker™, Swan Lake, and Romeo and Juliet. Mr. Wasserman joined Pennsylvania Ballet in 2012. His Principal roles include Basilio in Don Quixote, The Cavalier in George Balanchine’s The Nutcracker, and Conrad in Le Corsaire. He has also performed many featured roles, including Jerome Robbins’ Fancy Free (Second Sailor), Trey McIntyre’s The Accidental, Wayne McGregor’s Chroma, Liam Scarlett’s Asphodel Meadows Justin Peck’s Chutes and Ladders (Pas de Deux), and George Balanchine’s The Four Temperments (Sangunic), Tarantella, and Emeralds.
Wendy Whelan danced for New York City Ballet from 1984-2014. She has performed virtually every major Balanchine role and worked closely with choreographers such as Jerome Robbins. She has also originated leading roles in works by many of today’s leading choreographers. In 2015, Ms. Whelan began developing new collaborations within the contemporary dance world, most recently for Joyce Theater Productions, BAM Nextwave Festival and the Royal Opera House. theatrical release of her new documentary Restless Creature: Wendy Whelan, based on Whelan's transition from classical to contemporary dance, is now playing in cinemas across the country.