American Ballet Theatre

American Ballet Theatre

American Ballet Theatre , based in New York City, was one of the foremost ballet companies of the 20th century. It continues as a leading dance company in the world today...

dances Fall and Spring seasons each year in New York CIty and tours; this is the list of ballets for the 2009 Fall season, beginning Wednesday, October 7, and ending Saturday, October 10 and subsequent tours to Orange County and Beijing.

Friday, October 2, gala

Times Union by Joseph Dalton, October 3 Times Herald-Record by Sandy Tomcho, October 2 Poughkeepsie Journal by Kathianne Boniello, October 1 Hudson Valley Chronogram by Erica Scrodin, September 28 Times Union Joseph Dalton, Sunday, September 27

• • Seven Sonatas by Alexei Ratmansky
    Alexei Ratmansky
    Alexei Osipovich Ratmansky is a choreographer and former ballet dancer. He is artist in residence at the American Ballet Theatre and the former director of the Bolshoi Ballet. Ratmansky trained under Pyotr Pestov and Anna Markeyeva at the Bolshoi Ballet School...
    
     to music of Domenico Scarlatti
    Domenico Scarlatti
    Giuseppe Domenico Scarlatti was an Italian composer who spent much of his life in the service of the Portuguese and Spanish royal families. He is classified as a Baroque composer chronologically, although his music was influential in the development of the Classical style...
    
    

• Julie Kent
• Jacquelyn Reyes
• Stella Abrera

• David Hallberg
• Herman Cornejo
• Gennadi Saveliev

• • One of Three by Azure Barton to music of Maurice Ravel
    Maurice Ravel
    Joseph-Maurice Ravel was a French composer known especially for his melodies, orchestral and instrumental textures and effects...
    
    

• • Everything Doesn't Happen at Once by Benjamin Millepied
    Benjamin Millepied
    Benjamin Millepied is a French danseur, best known for his work as choreographer in the movie Black Swan .-Early life:...
    
     to music of David Lang
    David Lang (composer)
    David Lang is an American composer living in New York City. He was awarded the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Music for The Little Match Girl Passion.-Biography:...
    
    

Wednesday, October 7, gala

NY Times by Gia Kourlas, October 8 http://www.villagevoice.com/2009-10-13/dance/abt-offers-up-new-ballets-by-alexei-ratmansky-aszure-barton-and-benjamin-millepied-plus-bonus-jerome-robbins/Village Voice by Deborah Jowitt

Deborah Jowitt

Deborah Jowitt is an American dance critic, author, and choreographer. Her career in dance began as a performer and choreographer. Jowitt has received several awards for her work, including a Bessie for her work in dance criticism.Beginning in 1967, she wrote a weekly dance column for the Village...

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• • Seven Sonatas by Alexei Ratmansky
    Alexei Ratmansky
    Alexei Osipovich Ratmansky is a choreographer and former ballet dancer. He is artist in residence at the American Ballet Theatre and the former director of the Bolshoi Ballet. Ratmansky trained under Pyotr Pestov and Anna Markeyeva at the Bolshoi Ballet School...
    
     to music of Domenico Scarlatti
    Domenico Scarlatti
    Giuseppe Domenico Scarlatti was an Italian composer who spent much of his life in the service of the Portuguese and Spanish royal families. He is classified as a Baroque composer chronologically, although his music was influential in the development of the Classical style...
    
    

• Julie Kent
• Jacquelyn Reyes
• Stella Abrera

• David Hallberg
• Herman Cornejo
• Gennadi Saveliev

• • One of Three by Azure Barton to music of Maurice Ravel
    Maurice Ravel
    Joseph-Maurice Ravel was a French composer known especially for his melodies, orchestral and instrumental textures and effects...
    
    

• company

• • The Dying Swan
    The Dying Swan
    The Dying Swan is a ballet choreographed by Mikhail Fokine in 1905 to Camille Saint-Saëns's cello solo Le Cygne from Le Carnaval des Animaux as a pièce d'occasion for the ballerina Anna Pavlova. The short ballet follows the last moments in the life of a swan, and was first presented in St....
    
    

• Veronika Part

• • Everything Doesn't Happen at Once by Benjamin Millepied
    Benjamin Millepied
    Benjamin Millepied is a French danseur, best known for his work as choreographer in the movie Black Swan .-Early life:...
    
     to music of David Lang
    David Lang (composer)
    David Lang is an American composer living in New York City. He was awarded the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Music for The Little Match Girl Passion.-Biography:...
    
    

• Isabella Boylston
  Isabella Boylston
  Isabella Boylston is an American ballet dancer and a soloist with American Ballet Theatre .-Life and career:Boylston was born in Sun Valley, Idaho and has been dancing since she was 3 years old. She studied at the of Colorado Ballet. During that time, she won a gold medal at the 2001 Youth...
  
  

• Marcelo Gomes
  Marcelo Gomes (dancer)
  Marcelo Gomes is a Principal Dancer with the American Ballet Theatre. He first joined the company in 1997 as a member of the Corps de Ballet, and was promoted to Soloist in 2000 and Principal in 2002....
  
  

• Gemma Bond
  Gemma Bond
  Gemma Bond is an English ballet dancer and member of the corps de ballet with American Ballet Theatre .-Biography:Bond was born in Bedfordshire, England. She received her early training in dance at the Sylvia Bebb School of Dance in Bedford, before entering professional training at the Royal...
  
  
• Kristi Boone
• Maria Riccetto
  Maria Riccetto
  Maria Riccetto is an Uruguayan ballet dancer and a soloist with American Ballet Theatre .-Biography:Ms. Riccetto was born in Montevideo, Uruguay, and began studying ballet at the Uruguay National Ballet School in 1990. She was hired as a professional dancer in 1995 by the national ballet company,...
  
  
• Simone Messmer
• Leann Underwood

• Daniil Simkin
  Daniil Simkin
  Daniil Simkin is a Russian ballet dancer. His parents Dmitrij Simkin and Olga Aleksandrova are also ballet dancers. The family left the Soviet Union in 1990...
  
  
• Blaine Hoven
• Roman Zhurbin
• Alexandre Hammoudi
• Thomas Forster
  Thomas Forster
  Thomas Forster was a Northumbrian politician and landowner, who served as general of the Jacobite army in the 1715 Uprising.-Life:...
  
  

• Marian Butler
• Melissa Thomas
  Melissa Thomas
  Mélissa Thomas is an Australian actress . She co-starred with Heath Ledger in the television series Sweat and has most recently been seen in the Heath Ledger episode of E! True Hollywood Story as herself, speaking frankly about life as his friend and co-star...
  
  
• Nicole Graniero
• Christine Shevchenko
• Jennifer Whalen
  Jennifer Whalen
  Jennifer Whalen is an American professional downhill mountain bike racer who won the 2005 NORBA National Championship in the Women's Super-D class...
  
  
• Katherine Williams

• Sean Stewart
  Sean Stewart
  Sean Stewart is a U.S.-Canadian science fiction and fantasy author.Born in Lubbock, Texas, Sean Stewart moved to Edmonton, Alberta, Canada in 1968...
  
  
• Isaac Stappas
• Mikhail Ilyin
• Roddy Doble
• Alexei Agoudine
• Gray Davis
  Gray Davis
  Joseph Graham "Gray" Davis, Jr. is an American Democratic politician who served as California's 37th Governor from 1999 until being recalled in 2003...
  
  

Thursday, October 8

Lincoln Center, Thursday, October 8

• • Seven Sonatas by Alexei Ratmansky
    Alexei Ratmansky
    Alexei Osipovich Ratmansky is a choreographer and former ballet dancer. He is artist in residence at the American Ballet Theatre and the former director of the Bolshoi Ballet. Ratmansky trained under Pyotr Pestov and Anna Markeyeva at the Bolshoi Ballet School...
    
     to music of Domenico Scarlatti
    Domenico Scarlatti
    Giuseppe Domenico Scarlatti was an Italian composer who spent much of his life in the service of the Portuguese and Spanish royal families. He is classified as a Baroque composer chronologically, although his music was influential in the development of the Classical style...
    
    

• Yuriko Kajiya
  Yuriko Kajiya
  Yuriko Kajiya is a Japanese ballerina with American Ballet Theatre . She was promoted to soloist on 5 July 2007 after 5 years with the company....
  
  
• Sarah Lane
  Sarah Lane
  Sarah Christina Lane is an American television and Internet personality. She is most notably known for her appearances on TechTV's The Screen Savers, G4's Attack of the Show!, and Revision3's popSiren...
  
  
• Hee Seo

• Carlos Lopez
• Joseph Phillips
• Jared Matthews

• • One of Three by Azure Barton to music of Maurice Ravel
    Maurice Ravel
    Joseph-Maurice Ravel was a French composer known especially for his melodies, orchestral and instrumental textures and effects...
    
    

• Misty Copeland
  Misty Copeland
  Misty Copeland is an American ballet dancer, described by many accounts as the first African American female soloist for the American Ballet Theatre , one of the three leading classical ballet companies in the United States...
  
  
• Paloma Herrera
  Paloma Herrera
  Paloma Herrera , is a principal ballet dancer with the American Ballet Theatre.Ms. Herrera was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and began studying ballet there at the age of seven with teacher Olga Ferri...
  
  
• Michele Wiles
  Michele Wiles
  Michele Wiles is an American ballet dancer and a principal dancer with American Ballet Theatre .-Biography:Ms. Wiles began studying ballet in Washington, D.C. where, at the age of ten, she received a full scholarship to the Kirov Academy of Ballet...
  
  

• Grant DeLong
• Thomas Forster
  Thomas Forster
  Thomas Forster was a Northumbrian politician and landowner, who served as general of the Jacobite army in the 1715 Uprising.-Life:...
  
  
• Carlos Lopez
• Jared Matthews
• Patrick Ogle
  Patrick Ogle
  Patrick Ogle was a member of the gothic ambient band Black Tape for a Blue Girl. Ogle was a long time friend of band leader and Projekt Records founder Sam Rosenthal. Ogle performed on the band's "a chaos of desire" and later wrote and performed the title track on the "this lush garden within" CD....
  
  
• Joseph Phillips
• Arron Scott
  Arron Scott
  Arron Scott is an American ballet dancer and member of the corps de ballet with American Ballet Theatre .- Biography :Arron Scott was born in Lewistown, Pennsylvania and raised in State College, Pennsylvania...
  
  
• Cory Stearns

• • Other Dances
    Other Dances
    Other Dances is a ballet made by New York City Ballet balletmaster Jerome Robbins on Natalia Makarova and Mikhail Baryshnikov to the music of Chopin:...
    
     by Jerome Robbins
    Jerome Robbins
    Jerome Robbins was an American theater producer, director, and choreographer known primarily for Broadway Theater and Ballet/Dance, but who also occasionally directed films and directed/produced for television. His work has included everything from classical ballet to contemporary musical theater...
    
     to music of Frederic Chopin
    Frédéric Chopin
    Frédéric François Chopin was a Polish composer and virtuoso pianist. He is considered one of the great masters of Romantic music and has been called "the poet of the piano"....
    
    

• Gillian Murphy
  Gillian Murphy
  Gillian Murphy is a principal dancer with American Ballet Theatre.Murphy was born in Wimbledon, England and took her first ballet class at the age of three in Belgium while her father was working overseas...
  
  

• David Hallberg

• • Everything Doesn't Happen at Once by Benjamin Millepied
    Benjamin Millepied
    Benjamin Millepied is a French danseur, best known for his work as choreographer in the movie Black Swan .-Early life:...
    
     to music of David Lang
    David Lang (composer)
    David Lang is an American composer living in New York City. He was awarded the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Music for The Little Match Girl Passion.-Biography:...
    
    

• Isabella Boylston
  Isabella Boylston
  Isabella Boylston is an American ballet dancer and a soloist with American Ballet Theatre .-Life and career:Boylston was born in Sun Valley, Idaho and has been dancing since she was 3 years old. She studied at the of Colorado Ballet. During that time, she won a gold medal at the 2001 Youth...
  
  

• Marcelo Gomes
  Marcelo Gomes (dancer)
  Marcelo Gomes is a Principal Dancer with the American Ballet Theatre. He first joined the company in 1997 as a member of the Corps de Ballet, and was promoted to Soloist in 2000 and Principal in 2002....
  
  

Friday matinée, October 9

• • Seven Sonatas by Alexei Ratmansky
    Alexei Ratmansky
    Alexei Osipovich Ratmansky is a choreographer and former ballet dancer. He is artist in residence at the American Ballet Theatre and the former director of the Bolshoi Ballet. Ratmansky trained under Pyotr Pestov and Anna Markeyeva at the Bolshoi Ballet School...
    
     to music of Domenico Scarlatti
    Domenico Scarlatti
    Giuseppe Domenico Scarlatti was an Italian composer who spent much of his life in the service of the Portuguese and Spanish royal families. He is classified as a Baroque composer chronologically, although his music was influential in the development of the Classical style...
    
    

• Christine Shevchenko
• Jacquelyn Reyes
• Stella Abrera

• Alexandre Hammoudi
• Herman Cornejo
• Gennadi Saveliev

• • One of Three by Azure Barton to music of Maurice Ravel
    Maurice Ravel
    Joseph-Maurice Ravel was a French composer known especially for his melodies, orchestral and instrumental textures and effects...
    
    

• company

• • Some Assembly Required by Clark Tippet
    Clark Tippet
    Clark Tippet was a ballet dancer and choreographer. He was a member of the American Ballet Theatre company in New York City. Among other roles, he was the male Spanish Dancer in Mikhail Baryshnikov's production of Tchaikovsky's ballet The Nutcracker...
    
     to music of William Bolcom
    William Bolcom
    William Elden Bolcom is an American composer and pianist. He has received the Pulitzer Prize, the National Medal of Arts, two Grammy Awards, the Detroit Music Award and was named 2007 Composer of the Year by Musical America. Bolcom taught composition at the University of Michigan from 1973–2008...
    
    

• Isabella Boylston
  Isabella Boylston
  Isabella Boylston is an American ballet dancer and a soloist with American Ballet Theatre .-Life and career:Boylston was born in Sun Valley, Idaho and has been dancing since she was 3 years old. She studied at the of Colorado Ballet. During that time, she won a gold medal at the 2001 Youth...
  
  

• Isaac Stappas

• • Everything Doesn't Happen at Once by Benjamin Millepied
    Benjamin Millepied
    Benjamin Millepied is a French danseur, best known for his work as choreographer in the movie Black Swan .-Early life:...
    
     to music of David Lang
    David Lang (composer)
    David Lang is an American composer living in New York City. He was awarded the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Music for The Little Match Girl Passion.-Biography:...
    
    

• Stella Abrera

• Cory Stearns

Friday evening, October 9

• • Seven Sonatas by Alexei Ratmansky
    Alexei Ratmansky
    Alexei Osipovich Ratmansky is a choreographer and former ballet dancer. He is artist in residence at the American Ballet Theatre and the former director of the Bolshoi Ballet. Ratmansky trained under Pyotr Pestov and Anna Markeyeva at the Bolshoi Ballet School...
    
     to music of Domenico Scarlatti
    Domenico Scarlatti
    Giuseppe Domenico Scarlatti was an Italian composer who spent much of his life in the service of the Portuguese and Spanish royal families. He is classified as a Baroque composer chronologically, although his music was influential in the development of the Classical style...
    
    

• Julie Kent
• Jacquelyn Reyes
• Stella Abrera

• David Hallberg
• Herman Cornejo
• Gennadi Saveliev

• • Other Dances
    Other Dances
    Other Dances is a ballet made by New York City Ballet balletmaster Jerome Robbins on Natalia Makarova and Mikhail Baryshnikov to the music of Chopin:...
    
     by Jerome Robbins
    Jerome Robbins
    Jerome Robbins was an American theater producer, director, and choreographer known primarily for Broadway Theater and Ballet/Dance, but who also occasionally directed films and directed/produced for television. His work has included everything from classical ballet to contemporary musical theater...
    
     to music of Frederic Chopin
    Frédéric Chopin
    Frédéric François Chopin was a Polish composer and virtuoso pianist. He is considered one of the great masters of Romantic music and has been called "the poet of the piano"....
    
    

• Gillian Murphy
  Gillian Murphy
  Gillian Murphy is a principal dancer with American Ballet Theatre.Murphy was born in Wimbledon, England and took her first ballet class at the age of three in Belgium while her father was working overseas...
  
  

• David Hallberg

• • Some Assembly Required by Clark Tippet
    Clark Tippet
    Clark Tippet was a ballet dancer and choreographer. He was a member of the American Ballet Theatre company in New York City. Among other roles, he was the male Spanish Dancer in Mikhail Baryshnikov's production of Tchaikovsky's ballet The Nutcracker...
    
     to music of William Bolcom
    William Bolcom
    William Elden Bolcom is an American composer and pianist. He has received the Pulitzer Prize, the National Medal of Arts, two Grammy Awards, the Detroit Music Award and was named 2007 Composer of the Year by Musical America. Bolcom taught composition at the University of Michigan from 1973–2008...
    
    

• Isabella Boylston
  Isabella Boylston
  Isabella Boylston is an American ballet dancer and a soloist with American Ballet Theatre .-Life and career:Boylston was born in Sun Valley, Idaho and has been dancing since she was 3 years old. She studied at the of Colorado Ballet. During that time, she won a gold medal at the 2001 Youth...
  
  

• Isaac Stappas

• • Everything Doesn't Happen at Once by Benjamin Millepied
    Benjamin Millepied
    Benjamin Millepied is a French danseur, best known for his work as choreographer in the movie Black Swan .-Early life:...
    
     to music of David Lang
    David Lang (composer)
    David Lang is an American composer living in New York City. He was awarded the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Music for The Little Match Girl Passion.-Biography:...
    
    

• Stella Abrera

• Cory Stearns

Saturday matinée, October 10

• • Seven Sonatas by Alexei Ratmansky
    Alexei Ratmansky
    Alexei Osipovich Ratmansky is a choreographer and former ballet dancer. He is artist in residence at the American Ballet Theatre and the former director of the Bolshoi Ballet. Ratmansky trained under Pyotr Pestov and Anna Markeyeva at the Bolshoi Ballet School...
    
     to music of Domenico Scarlatti
    Domenico Scarlatti
    Giuseppe Domenico Scarlatti was an Italian composer who spent much of his life in the service of the Portuguese and Spanish royal families. He is classified as a Baroque composer chronologically, although his music was influential in the development of the Classical style...
    
    

• Hee Seo
• Sarah Lane
  Sarah Lane
  Sarah Christina Lane is an American television and Internet personality. She is most notably known for her appearances on TechTV's The Screen Savers, G4's Attack of the Show!, and Revision3's popSiren...
  
  
• Yuriko Kajiya
  Yuriko Kajiya
  Yuriko Kajiya is a Japanese ballerina with American Ballet Theatre . She was promoted to soloist on 5 July 2007 after 5 years with the company....
  
  

• Jared Matthews
• Joseph Phillips
• Carlos Lopez

• • One of Three by Azure Barton to music of Maurice Ravel
    Maurice Ravel
    Joseph-Maurice Ravel was a French composer known especially for his melodies, orchestral and instrumental textures and effects...
    
    

• company

• • Other Dances
    Other Dances
    Other Dances is a ballet made by New York City Ballet balletmaster Jerome Robbins on Natalia Makarova and Mikhail Baryshnikov to the music of Chopin:...
    
     by Jerome Robbins
    Jerome Robbins
    Jerome Robbins was an American theater producer, director, and choreographer known primarily for Broadway Theater and Ballet/Dance, but who also occasionally directed films and directed/produced for television. His work has included everything from classical ballet to contemporary musical theater...
    
     to music of Frederic Chopin
    Frédéric Chopin
    Frédéric François Chopin was a Polish composer and virtuoso pianist. He is considered one of the great masters of Romantic music and has been called "the poet of the piano"....
    
    

• Gillian Murphy
  Gillian Murphy
  Gillian Murphy is a principal dancer with American Ballet Theatre.Murphy was born in Wimbledon, England and took her first ballet class at the age of three in Belgium while her father was working overseas...
  
  

• David Hallberg

• • Everything Doesn't Happen at Once by Benjamin Millepied
    Benjamin Millepied
    Benjamin Millepied is a French danseur, best known for his work as choreographer in the movie Black Swan .-Early life:...
    
     to music of David Lang
    David Lang (composer)
    David Lang is an American composer living in New York City. He was awarded the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Music for The Little Match Girl Passion.-Biography:...
    
    

• Isabella Boylston
  Isabella Boylston
  Isabella Boylston is an American ballet dancer and a soloist with American Ballet Theatre .-Life and career:Boylston was born in Sun Valley, Idaho and has been dancing since she was 3 years old. She studied at the of Colorado Ballet. During that time, she won a gold medal at the 2001 Youth...
  
  

• Marcelo Gomes
  Marcelo Gomes (dancer)
  Marcelo Gomes is a Principal Dancer with the American Ballet Theatre. He first joined the company in 1997 as a member of the Corps de Ballet, and was promoted to Soloist in 2000 and Principal in 2002....
  
  

Saturday evening, October 10

Lincoln Center, Saturday, October 10

• • Seven Sonatas by Alexei Ratmansky
    Alexei Ratmansky
    Alexei Osipovich Ratmansky is a choreographer and former ballet dancer. He is artist in residence at the American Ballet Theatre and the former director of the Bolshoi Ballet. Ratmansky trained under Pyotr Pestov and Anna Markeyeva at the Bolshoi Ballet School...
    
     to music of Domenico Scarlatti
    Domenico Scarlatti
    Giuseppe Domenico Scarlatti was an Italian composer who spent much of his life in the service of the Portuguese and Spanish royal families. He is classified as a Baroque composer chronologically, although his music was influential in the development of the Classical style...
    
    

• Stella Abrera
• Sarah Lane
  Sarah Lane
  Sarah Christina Lane is an American television and Internet personality. She is most notably known for her appearances on TechTV's The Screen Savers, G4's Attack of the Show!, and Revision3's popSiren...
  
  
• Julie Kent

• Gennadi Saveliev
• Herman Cornejo
• David Hallberg

• • One of Three by Azure Barton to music of Maurice Ravel
    Maurice Ravel
    Joseph-Maurice Ravel was a French composer known especially for his melodies, orchestral and instrumental textures and effects...
    
    

• Misty Copeland
  Misty Copeland
  Misty Copeland is an American ballet dancer, described by many accounts as the first African American female soloist for the American Ballet Theatre , one of the three leading classical ballet companies in the United States...
  
  
• Paloma Herrera
  Paloma Herrera
  Paloma Herrera , is a principal ballet dancer with the American Ballet Theatre.Ms. Herrera was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and began studying ballet there at the age of seven with teacher Olga Ferri...
  
  
• Gillian Murphy
  Gillian Murphy
  Gillian Murphy is a principal dancer with American Ballet Theatre.Murphy was born in Wimbledon, England and took her first ballet class at the age of three in Belgium while her father was working overseas...
  
  

• Grant DeLong
• Carlos Lopez
• Patrick Ogle
  Patrick Ogle
  Patrick Ogle was a member of the gothic ambient band Black Tape for a Blue Girl. Ogle was a long time friend of band leader and Projekt Records founder Sam Rosenthal. Ogle performed on the band's "a chaos of desire" and later wrote and performed the title track on the "this lush garden within" CD....
  
  
• Joseph Phillips
• Arron Scott
  Arron Scott
  Arron Scott is an American ballet dancer and member of the corps de ballet with American Ballet Theatre .- Biography :Arron Scott was born in Lewistown, Pennsylvania and raised in State College, Pennsylvania...
  
  
• Daniil Simkin
  Daniil Simkin
  Daniil Simkin is a Russian ballet dancer. His parents Dmitrij Simkin and Olga Aleksandrova are also ballet dancers. The family left the Soviet Union in 1990...
  
  
• Cory Stearns
• Eric Tamm

• • Some Assembly Required by Clark Tippet
    Clark Tippet
    Clark Tippet was a ballet dancer and choreographer. He was a member of the American Ballet Theatre company in New York City. Among other roles, he was the male Spanish Dancer in Mikhail Baryshnikov's production of Tchaikovsky's ballet The Nutcracker...
    
     to music of William Bolcom
    William Bolcom
    William Elden Bolcom is an American composer and pianist. He has received the Pulitzer Prize, the National Medal of Arts, two Grammy Awards, the Detroit Music Award and was named 2007 Composer of the Year by Musical America. Bolcom taught composition at the University of Michigan from 1973–2008...
    
    

• Nicole Graniero

• Isaac Stappas

• • Everything Doesn't Happen at Once by Benjamin Millepied
    Benjamin Millepied
    Benjamin Millepied is a French danseur, best known for his work as choreographer in the movie Black Swan .-Early life:...
    
     to music of David Lang
    David Lang (composer)
    David Lang is an American composer living in New York City. He was awarded the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Music for The Little Match Girl Passion.-Biography:...
    
    

• Isabella Boylston
  Isabella Boylston
  Isabella Boylston is an American ballet dancer and a soloist with American Ballet Theatre .-Life and career:Boylston was born in Sun Valley, Idaho and has been dancing since she was 3 years old. She studied at the of Colorado Ballet. During that time, she won a gold medal at the 2001 Youth...
  
  

• Marcelo Gomes
  Marcelo Gomes (dancer)
  Marcelo Gomes is a Principal Dancer with the American Ballet Theatre. He first joined the company in 1997 as a member of the Corps de Ballet, and was promoted to Soloist in 2000 and Principal in 2002....
  
  

• Gemma Bond
  Gemma Bond
  Gemma Bond is an English ballet dancer and member of the corps de ballet with American Ballet Theatre .-Biography:Bond was born in Bedfordshire, England. She received her early training in dance at the Sylvia Bebb School of Dance in Bedford, before entering professional training at the Royal...
  
  
• Kristi Boone
• Maria Riccetto
  Maria Riccetto
  Maria Riccetto is an Uruguayan ballet dancer and a soloist with American Ballet Theatre .-Biography:Ms. Riccetto was born in Montevideo, Uruguay, and began studying ballet at the Uruguay National Ballet School in 1990. She was hired as a professional dancer in 1995 by the national ballet company,...
  
  
• Simone Messmer
• Leann Underwood

• Daniil Simkin
  Daniil Simkin
  Daniil Simkin is a Russian ballet dancer. His parents Dmitrij Simkin and Olga Aleksandrova are also ballet dancers. The family left the Soviet Union in 1990...
  
  
• Blaine Hoven
• Roman Zhurbin
• Alexandre Hammoudi
• Thomas Forster
  Thomas Forster
  Thomas Forster was a Northumbrian politician and landowner, who served as general of the Jacobite army in the 1715 Uprising.-Life:...
  
  

• Marian Butler
• Melissa Thomas
  Melissa Thomas
  Mélissa Thomas is an Australian actress . She co-starred with Heath Ledger in the television series Sweat and has most recently been seen in the Heath Ledger episode of E! True Hollywood Story as herself, speaking frankly about life as his friend and co-star...
  
  
• Nicole Graniero
• Christine Shevchenko
• Jennifer Whalen
  Jennifer Whalen
  Jennifer Whalen is an American professional downhill mountain bike racer who won the 2005 NORBA National Championship in the Women's Super-D class...
  
  
• Katherine Williams

• Sean Stewart
  Sean Stewart
  Sean Stewart is a U.S.-Canadian science fiction and fantasy author.Born in Lubbock, Texas, Sean Stewart moved to Edmonton, Alberta, Canada in 1968...
  
  
• Isaac Stappas
• Mikhail Ilyin
• Roddy Doble
• Alexei Agoudine
• Gray Davis
  Gray Davis
  Joseph Graham "Gray" Davis, Jr. is an American Democratic politician who served as California's 37th Governor from 1999 until being recalled in 2003...
  
  

Tuesday, November 3

Giselle

Myrtha

• Julie Kent
• Veronika Part

Albrecht

Hilarion

• Jose Manuel Carreño
  Jose Manuel Carreño
  José Manuel Carreño is a retired Cuban ballet dancer, who performed as a principal dancer with the English National Ballet, Royal Ballet and American Ballet Theatre....
  
  
• Gennadi Saveliev

Wednesday, November 4

Giselle

Myrtha

• Paloma Herrera
  Paloma Herrera
  Paloma Herrera , is a principal ballet dancer with the American Ballet Theatre.Ms. Herrera was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and began studying ballet there at the age of seven with teacher Olga Ferri...
  
  
• Michele Wiles
  Michele Wiles
  Michele Wiles is an American ballet dancer and a principal dancer with American Ballet Theatre .-Biography:Ms. Wiles began studying ballet in Washington, D.C. where, at the age of ten, she received a full scholarship to the Kirov Academy of Ballet...
  
  

Albrecht

Hilarion

• Marcelo Gomes
  Marcelo Gomes (dancer)
  Marcelo Gomes is a Principal Dancer with the American Ballet Theatre. He first joined the company in 1997 as a member of the Corps de Ballet, and was promoted to Soloist in 2000 and Principal in 2002....
  
  
• Isaac Stappas

Thursday, November 5

Giselle

Myrtha

• Julie Kent
• Simone Messmer

Albrecht

Hilarion

• Jose Manuel Carreño
  Jose Manuel Carreño
  José Manuel Carreño is a retired Cuban ballet dancer, who performed as a principal dancer with the English National Ballet, Royal Ballet and American Ballet Theatre....
  
  
• Gennadi Saveliev

Friday, November 6

Giselle

Myrtha

• Xiomara Reyes
  Xiomara Reyes
  Xiomara Reyes is a Principal Dancer with American Ballet Theatre. Born in Cuba, Reyes trained at the Cuban National Ballet School. After graduation, she danced as a soloist with "La Joven Guardia", an offshoot of Cuba's National Ballet...
  
  
• Stella Abrera

Albrecht

Hilarion

• Herman Cornejo
• Jared Matthews

Saturday matinée, November 7

Giselle

Myrtha

• Maria Riccetto
  Maria Riccetto
  Maria Riccetto is an Uruguayan ballet dancer and a soloist with American Ballet Theatre .-Biography:Ms. Riccetto was born in Montevideo, Uruguay, and began studying ballet at the Uruguay National Ballet School in 1990. She was hired as a professional dancer in 1995 by the national ballet company,...
  
  
• Gillian Murphy
  Gillian Murphy
  Gillian Murphy is a principal dancer with American Ballet Theatre.Murphy was born in Wimbledon, England and took her first ballet class at the age of three in Belgium while her father was working overseas...
  
  

Albrecht

Hilarion

• David Hallberg
• Gennadi Saveliev

Saturday evening, November 7

Giselle

Myrtha

• Paloma Herrera
  Paloma Herrera
  Paloma Herrera , is a principal ballet dancer with the American Ballet Theatre.Ms. Herrera was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and began studying ballet there at the age of seven with teacher Olga Ferri...
  
  
• Michele Wiles
  Michele Wiles
  Michele Wiles is an American ballet dancer and a principal dancer with American Ballet Theatre .-Biography:Ms. Wiles began studying ballet in Washington, D.C. where, at the age of ten, she received a full scholarship to the Kirov Academy of Ballet...
  
  

Albrecht

Hilarion

• Marcelo Gomes
  Marcelo Gomes (dancer)
  Marcelo Gomes is a Principal Dancer with the American Ballet Theatre. He first joined the company in 1997 as a member of the Corps de Ballet, and was promoted to Soloist in 2000 and Principal in 2002....
  
  
• Isaac Stappas

Sunday matinée, November 8

Giselle

Myrtha

• Irina Dvorovenko
  Irina Dvorovenko
  Irina Dvorovenko is a classical ballet dancer. She was born in Kiev, in the Ukrainian SSR of the Soviet Union. She began her ballet training at the age of 10 at the Kiev Ballet School. She joined the National Opera and Ballet Theatre of Kiev in 1990 as a soloist, rising to the rank of Principal...
  
  
• Veronika Part

Albrecht

Hilarion

• Maxim Beloserkovsky
• Jared Matthews

Thursday, November 12

• • Seven Sonatas by Alexei Ratmansky
    Alexei Ratmansky
    Alexei Osipovich Ratmansky is a choreographer and former ballet dancer. He is artist in residence at the American Ballet Theatre and the former director of the Bolshoi Ballet. Ratmansky trained under Pyotr Pestov and Anna Markeyeva at the Bolshoi Ballet School...
    
     to music of Domenico Scarlatti
    Domenico Scarlatti
    Giuseppe Domenico Scarlatti was an Italian composer who spent much of his life in the service of the Portuguese and Spanish royal families. He is classified as a Baroque composer chronologically, although his music was influential in the development of the Classical style...
    
    

• Hee Seo
• Xiomara Reyes
  Xiomara Reyes
  Xiomara Reyes is a Principal Dancer with American Ballet Theatre. Born in Cuba, Reyes trained at the Cuban National Ballet School. After graduation, she danced as a soloist with "La Joven Guardia", an offshoot of Cuba's National Ballet...
  
  
• Stella Abrera

• Jared Matthews
• Herman Cornejo
• Gennadi Saveliev

• • One of Three by Azure Barton to music of Maurice Ravel
    Maurice Ravel
    Joseph-Maurice Ravel was a French composer known especially for his melodies, orchestral and instrumental textures and effects...
    
    

the company

• • Other Dances
    Other Dances
    Other Dances is a ballet made by New York City Ballet balletmaster Jerome Robbins on Natalia Makarova and Mikhail Baryshnikov to the music of Chopin:...
    
    

• Veronika Part

• Marcelo Gomes
  Marcelo Gomes (dancer)
  Marcelo Gomes is a Principal Dancer with the American Ballet Theatre. He first joined the company in 1997 as a member of the Corps de Ballet, and was promoted to Soloist in 2000 and Principal in 2002....
  
  

• • Everything Doesn't Happen at Once by Benjamin Millepied
    Benjamin Millepied
    Benjamin Millepied is a French danseur, best known for his work as choreographer in the movie Black Swan .-Early life:...
    
     to music of David Lang
    David Lang (composer)
    David Lang is an American composer living in New York City. He was awarded the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Music for The Little Match Girl Passion.-Biography:...
    
    

• Isabella Boylston
  Isabella Boylston
  Isabella Boylston is an American ballet dancer and a soloist with American Ballet Theatre .-Life and career:Boylston was born in Sun Valley, Idaho and has been dancing since she was 3 years old. She studied at the of Colorado Ballet. During that time, she won a gold medal at the 2001 Youth...
  
  

• Marcelo Gomes
  Marcelo Gomes (dancer)
  Marcelo Gomes is a Principal Dancer with the American Ballet Theatre. He first joined the company in 1997 as a member of the Corps de Ballet, and was promoted to Soloist in 2000 and Principal in 2002....
  
  

Friday, November 13

• • Seven Sonatas by Alexei Ratmansky
    Alexei Ratmansky
    Alexei Osipovich Ratmansky is a choreographer and former ballet dancer. He is artist in residence at the American Ballet Theatre and the former director of the Bolshoi Ballet. Ratmansky trained under Pyotr Pestov and Anna Markeyeva at the Bolshoi Ballet School...
    
     to music of Domenico Scarlatti
    Domenico Scarlatti
    Giuseppe Domenico Scarlatti was an Italian composer who spent much of his life in the service of the Portuguese and Spanish royal families. He is classified as a Baroque composer chronologically, although his music was influential in the development of the Classical style...
    
    

• Christine Shevchenko
• Sarah Lane
  Sarah Lane (dancer)
  Sarah Lane is an American ballet dancer and a soloist with American Ballet Theatre .-Life and career:Lane was born in San Francisco, California. She started training for dance at the Memphis Classical Ballet in Memphis, Tennessee. Her family later moved to Rochester, New York where she continued...
  
  
• Yuriko Kajiya
  Yuriko Kajiya
  Yuriko Kajiya is a Japanese ballerina with American Ballet Theatre . She was promoted to soloist on 5 July 2007 after 5 years with the company....
  
  

• Alexandre Hammoudi
• Joseph Phillips
• Carlos Lopez

• • One of Three by Azure Barton to music of Maurice Ravel
    Maurice Ravel
    Joseph-Maurice Ravel was a French composer known especially for his melodies, orchestral and instrumental textures and effects...
    
    

the company

• • Other Dances
    Other Dances
    Other Dances is a ballet made by New York City Ballet balletmaster Jerome Robbins on Natalia Makarova and Mikhail Baryshnikov to the music of Chopin:...
    
    

• Gillian Murphy
  Gillian Murphy
  Gillian Murphy is a principal dancer with American Ballet Theatre.Murphy was born in Wimbledon, England and took her first ballet class at the age of three in Belgium while her father was working overseas...
  
  

• David Hallberg

• • Everything Doesn't Happen at Once by Benjamin Millepied
    Benjamin Millepied
    Benjamin Millepied is a French danseur, best known for his work as choreographer in the movie Black Swan .-Early life:...
    
     to music of David Lang
    David Lang (composer)
    David Lang is an American composer living in New York City. He was awarded the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Music for The Little Match Girl Passion.-Biography:...
    
    

• Stella Abrera

• Cory Stearns

Saturday matinée, November 14

• • Don Quixote
    Don Quixote (ballet)
    Don Quixote is a ballet originally staged in four acts and eight scenes, based on an episode taken from the famous novel Don Quixote de la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes. It was originally choreographed by Marius Petipa to the music of Ludwig Minkus and was first presented by the Ballet of the...
    
    

• Michele Wiles
  Michele Wiles
  Michele Wiles is an American ballet dancer and a principal dancer with American Ballet Theatre .-Biography:Ms. Wiles began studying ballet in Washington, D.C. where, at the age of ten, she received a full scholarship to the Kirov Academy of Ballet...
  
  

• Cory Stearns

Saturday evening, November 14

• • Don Quixote
    Don Quixote (ballet)
    Don Quixote is a ballet originally staged in four acts and eight scenes, based on an episode taken from the famous novel Don Quixote de la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes. It was originally choreographed by Marius Petipa to the music of Ludwig Minkus and was first presented by the Ballet of the...
    
    

• Paloma Herrera
  Paloma Herrera
  Paloma Herrera , is a principal ballet dancer with the American Ballet Theatre.Ms. Herrera was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and began studying ballet there at the age of seven with teacher Olga Ferri...
  
  

• Angel Corella
  Angel Corella
  Ángel Corella is a Spanish dancer, currently the Artistic Director and principal dancer of Corella Ballet Castilla Y León as well as principal dancer with American Ballet Theatre...
  
  

Sunday matinée, November 15

• • Don Quixote
    Don Quixote (ballet)
    Don Quixote is a ballet originally staged in four acts and eight scenes, based on an episode taken from the famous novel Don Quixote de la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes. It was originally choreographed by Marius Petipa to the music of Ludwig Minkus and was first presented by the Ballet of the...
    
    

• Xiomara Reyes
  Xiomara Reyes
  Xiomara Reyes is a Principal Dancer with American Ballet Theatre. Born in Cuba, Reyes trained at the Cuban National Ballet School. After graduation, she danced as a soloist with "La Joven Guardia", an offshoot of Cuba's National Ballet...
  
  

• Herman Cornejo

Sunday evening, November 15

• • Don Quixote
    Don Quixote (ballet)
    Don Quixote is a ballet originally staged in four acts and eight scenes, based on an episode taken from the famous novel Don Quixote de la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes. It was originally choreographed by Marius Petipa to the music of Ludwig Minkus and was first presented by the Ballet of the...
    
    

• Gillian Murphy
  Gillian Murphy
  Gillian Murphy is a principal dancer with American Ballet Theatre.Murphy was born in Wimbledon, England and took her first ballet class at the age of three in Belgium while her father was working overseas...
  
  

• David Hallberg

Tuesday, January 26

• • Birthday Offering
  • Seven Sonatas
  • The Brahms-Haydn Variations

Wednesday, January 27

• • Birthday Offering
  • Seven Sonatas
  • The Brahms-Haydn Variations

Friday, January 29

• • Romeo and Juliet

Saturday evening, January 30

• • Romeo and Juliet

Wednesday, April 14, All-American Celebration

• • The Brahms-Haydn Variations
  • Company B
  • Fancy Free

See also

• ABT 2010 Spring repertory

articles

• NY Post by Leigh Witchel, October 5

External links

• ABT website