Wendy Whelan

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A ballerina with the New York City Ballet named Wendy Whelan.

Billiards legend, Jeanette Lee.

Cellist legend, Yo-Yo Ma.

It's like an audience comes.

But the dancers who chose me to do Liturgy by Christopher Wheldon were Wendy Whelan and Adrienne Danchik-Waring.

And they, or Wendy chose me to do liturgy, which is a role creative for her.

And that was really special to work with her on that.

And I used to go into the library and sit under the table and read dance magazine.

I had all of these images of, you know, the back then young Wendy Whalen, Margaret Tracy, Darcy Kistler was still dancing with the company, all of these, these dancers that I'd seen on the pages, but I wanted the opportunity to see them perform and also be around them.

So I, so I wrote, they said, yes, of course, come on in.

And my first morning in New York, I'd arrived the night before and And actually, I walked past the building that I stayed in just the other day and remembered how I'd stood on the toilet for most of the night, leaning out the window, looking at the Empire State Building, because it was right there on the corner of 34th and...