Restless Creature: Wendy Whelan

In all its beauty and all its grueling pain, this is an inside look at the ballet world and veteran dancer Wendy Whelan, who managed to stay a professional ballerina an entire decade longer than most dancers. And that is what makes this documentary more interesting than your usual ballet fare, in that you're following a dancer who is atypical in the world. An anomaly. And you'll become her biggest fan in the process!

Wendy Whealan has been a professional ballerina longer than most. She stayed for 3 decades with New York City ballet. But at this time the pressure put on her body starts showing as she gets a serious hip injury.

In this documentary we watch her make the decision about retirement, see her last time on stage with New York City Ballet and also plan the future to come after it.

It is very well done that shows us a lot of insight into her career as well as it does show us all the emotions such as insecurities and finding herself. And we see that this is not the end. The era with NYC Ballet may be over but there is still a bright future ahead.