Originally created on Associate Artistic Director Wendy Whelan, Christopher Wheeldon's This Bitter Earth explores the haunting melodies in Dinah Washington's rendition of 'This Bitter Earth' and Max Richter's 'On the Nature of Daylight'. The work premiered at the 2012 Vail Dance Festival while Whelan and Angle were performing with Fang-Yi Sheu & Artists, founded by the longtime Martha Graham Dance principal dancer. This Bitter Earth premiered on our stage later the same year, during the first Fa

Christopher Wheeldon set his propulsory pas de deux This Bitter Earth to a remix of Dinah Washington’s song by the same name. That track was also featured on the soundtrack for the 2010 psychological thriller Shutter Island. See the ballet this spring: nycballet.com/1920 | New York City Ballet