American Ballet Theatre’s Summer Season 2026 at the Metropolitan Opera House
American Ballet Theatre’s Summer Season 2026 will feature a new staging of Don Quixote, as well as the return of Onegin, Swan Lake, and Sylvia.
Kevin McKenzie
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American Ballet Theatre’s programme for Fall Gala honouring Misty Copeland
American Ballet Theatre announces programme to honour Misty Copeland at Fall Gala celebration on Wednesday 22 October 2025 at the Lincoln Center.
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New York Premiere of Wayne McGregor’s Woolf Works highlights American Ballet Theatre’s Summer Season
ABT’s Summer Season – from 18 June until 20 July 2024 – features New York Premiere of Wayne McGregor’s Woolf Works.
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New York premiere of Wheeldon’s Like Water for Chocolate opens American Ballet Theatre’s Summer Season
American Ballet Theatre’s summer season in June/July featuring NYC premiere of Like Water for Chocolate, Giselle, Swan Lake, and Romeo and Juliet.
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Alexei Ratmansky will leave American Ballet Theatre after 13 years
American Ballet Theatre (ABT) announced today that Alexei Ratmansky will be stepping down as Artist in Residence at the end of his contract in June 2023.
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Casting Announced for American Ballet Theatre’s 2022 Fall Season
Casting for American Ballet Theatre’s 2022 Fall season has been announced today by Artistic Director Kevin McKenzie.
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Stella Abrera becomes Acting Artistic Director of The American Ballet Theatre School
Stella Abrera, former Principal Dancer with American Ballet Theatre, becomes Acting Artistic Director of the ABT Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis School.
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Susan Jaffe named Artistic Director of American Ballet Theatre
Former American Ballet Theatre Principal Dancer Susan Jaffe has been named the company’s next Artistic Director.
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Daniil Simkin and Daniel Camargo join American Ballet Theatre as guest artists
Daniil Simkin and Daniel Camargo will join the American Ballet Theatre as guest artists during the 2022 Summer Season and on tour.
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Cynthia Harvey to leave the American Ballet Theatre School
Cynthia Harvey has led ABT’s Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis School since 2016 and will leave her role at the end of the school year in May 2022.
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Touché! Les Étoiles gala features a homosexual pas de deux
Interview with the choreographer Christopher Rudd about his gay pas de deux for two men Touché, created for American Ballet Theatre and now to be seen in Rome.
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American Ballet Theatre: Together Tonight – an 80th Anniversary YouTube celebration
May 2020 was to have been a special month for the American Ballet Theatre – the time to celebrate its 80th anniversary.
American Ballet Theatre – known as Ballet Theatre from 1939 until 1957 – was founded in 1939 by Lucia Chase and Richard Pleasant and its first performance was on 11 January 1940.
Chase was its director, together with Oliver Smith, from 1945 to 1980. Mikhail Baryshnikov took over until 1989. Smith returned with Jane Hermann from 1990 to 1992, when Kevin McKenzie took over as artistic director, a position her still holds.
ABT will present American Ballet Theatre: Together Tonight, a virtual celebration in support of the ABT Crisis Relief Fund on its YouTube Channel…
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ABT dancer who hauled a homeless man off the subway tracks is awarded the New York State Liberty Medal
American Ballet Theatre dancer Gray Davis has been awarded the New York State Liberty Medal. It is the highest civilian honour bestowed by a Member of the New York State Senate. The medal is in recognition of Davis’s daring rescue of a 58-year-old homeless man who had been pushed onto the subway tracks on 3 June 2017….
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Herman Cornejo answers the Gramilano Questionnaire… Dancers’ Edition
Q&A When did you start dancing?I was 8 years old. It was a normal day when my sister’s teacher, Wasil Tupin, saw me at the door. I was enjoying the music and watching my sister dance to the rhythm, and he invited me to come to class the next day. Why did you start dancing?Music took…
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Natalia Osipova and Ivan Vasiliev’s presence scuppers the Mikhailovsky’s New York plans
The Mikhailovsky Theater scored a coup last fall by luring Natalia Osipova and Ivan Vasiliev from the Bolshoi, and it was to have brought them to the United States this summer for a run of shows at Lincoln Center, said Arts Beat. Now those plans have been scrapped because American Ballet Theater has exercised a no-compete clause involving…
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Who is Rothbart? An evil Mephistopheles or “a large lump of diseased moss”?
Swan Lake’s Rothbart is an extraordinary important character; his power and evilness must be believable if we are to empathise with poor Odette. Yet often the role is almost laughable in its insignificance or its hammy “baddie” acting with lots of cape swishing. The La Scala production for a few years – the Vladimir Bourmeister choreography with Roberta Guidi di Bagno’s dreary sets…
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Play Misty for me – Prince borrows ABT ballerina Misty Copeland
The American Ballet Theatre hired Misty Copeland when she was just 18. I had never, ever, thought, I’m black, and no one else looks like me. At ABT, I realized, Oh, I do have this other thing that could work against me or for me. I always thought my talent would take me as far as…
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