American Ballet Theatre Fall 2021

The venerable American Ballet Theatre returns to its home base at Lincoln Center for the first time since the shutdown. The first half of the run is devoted to six performances of the old-school full-length ballet Giselle, staged by Kevin McKenzie (with choreography after 19th-century choreographers Jean Coralli, Jules Perrot and Marius Petipa) and set to music by Adolphe Adam. The second week includes the world premiere of Jessica Lang's Tony Bennett Tribute, ZigZag, as well as four new works that premiered digitally during the pandemic—by Alexei Ratmansky, Christopher Rudd, Lauren Lovette and Darrell Grand Moultrie—and the ABT rep standards Pillar of Fire and Some Assembly Required. The principal dancers are Joo Won Ahn, Aran Bell, Isabella Boylston, Skylar Brandt, Herman Cornejo, Thomas Forster, Gillian Murphy, Calvin Royal III, Hee Seo, Christine Shevchenko, Cory Stearns, Devon Teuscher, Cassandra Trenary and James Whiteside. Tickets go on sale to the general public on September 8 at 10am.