Christopher Wheeldon: 'Most boys at ballet school were closeted, terrified our parents would disown us'
As his version of Like Water for Chocolate opens at the Royal Opera House, the choreographer talks about how the ballet world is changing " and why he took on the Michael Jackson musical One weekend in the early 1990s on Manhattan's Upper West Side, 19-year-old dancer Christopher Wheeldon found himself at a loose end. He had recently moved from London to join New York City Ballet. "I hadn't really made any friends ye…