American Ballet Theatre 2024 Fall Season, Shows, Reviews

byCherilyn J. Lee

January 1, 2020 - Updated on July 19, 2024

American Ballet Theatre

♦ Location: New York, New York – United States

♦ Artistic Director: Susan Jaffe

♦ Orchestra: American Ballet Theatre Orchestra

♦ Affiliated School: ABT Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis School

♦ Founded in 1939 by Lucia Chase

♦ Official Website of American Ballet Theatre

American Ballet Theatre 2024 Fall Season

The American Ballet Theatre 2024 fall season at the David H. Koch Theater in New York City has been announced by Artistic Director Susan Jaffe.

Principal Dancers for the American Ballet Theatre 2024 fall season include:

Joo Won Ahn
Aran Bell
Isabella Boylston
Skylar Brandt
Daniel Camargo
Herman Cornejo
Thomas Forster
Catherine Hurlin
Chloe Misseldine
Gillian Murphy
Calvin Royal III
Hee Seo
Christine Shevchenko
Cory Stearns
Devon Teuscher
Cassandra Trenary
James Whiteside
Roman Zhurbin

Isaac Hernández joins the company as a Guest Artist after which he will become a full-time Principal Dancer in January 2025.

The season opens with the Innovation Past and Present program featuring world premieres by Gemma Bond and Kyle Abraham and Harald Lander’s ode to classical ballet, Études.

Bond’s new work, an “abstract tutu ballet,” will be set to music by Ottorino Respighi after Gioachino Rossini and use set and costume design by Jean-Marc Puissant and lighting design by Clifton Taylor. Abraham’s choreography will blend the classical with the contemporary and use costumes designed by Karen Young and lighting designed by Dan Scully.

PRINCIPAL CASTING (TBA)

The second program, Choreographers of the 20th and 21st Centuries, includes George Balanchine’s Ballet Imperial, Alexei Ratmansky’s Neo, and Twyla Tharp’s In the Upper Room.

Set to Peter Ilyitch Tchaikovsky’s Concerto No. 2 in G for Piano and Orchestra, Ballet Imperial captures the essence of Russia’s Imperial Ballet and features scenery and costumes by Jean-Marc Puissant and lighting by Mark Stanley.

Neo, a pas de deux originally created for a Joyce Theater online presentation and featuring ABT Principal Dancers James Whiteside and Isabella Boylston, will see its company premiere.

Tharp’s In the Upper Room is a nine-part ballet set to music by Philip Glass with costumes by Norma Kamali and lighting by Jennifer Tipton.

PRINCIPAL CASTING (TBA)

The third repertory program of the ABT 2024 fall season, titled Signature Works, displays a diverse range of dance styles and choreography presented in three different arrangements (see the event listing for ABT Signature Works for details).

Natalia Makarova’s The Kingdom of the Shades (after Petipa’s version) is an excerpt of the full-length ballet La Bayadère set to music by Ludwig Minkus.

The remainder of the program is comprised of a combination of In the Upper Room along with a selection of pas de deux including Tharp’s Sinatra Suite (Frank Sinatra), Balanchine’s Sylvia Pas de Deux (Léo Delibes), the duet from Lynne Taylor-Corbett’s Great Galloping Gottschalk (Louis Moreau Gottschalk), a couple from Jessica Lang’s Children’s Songs Dance (Chick Corea), and Ratmansky’s Neo.

PRINCIPAL CASTING (TBA)

Closing the season is the world premiere of Helen Pickett’s Crime and Punishment inspired by Fyodor Dostoevsky drama of the same name. eatures music by Isobel Waller-Bridge, set and costume design by Soutra Gilmour, lighting design by Jennifer Tipton, and video design by Tal Yarden.

“Crime and Punishment is a harrowing journey towards redemption, holding a mirror up to one’s humanity and to the world today.”