Join American Ballet Theatre in summer 2025 for performances that promise to delight through story, sight and sound.
Swan Lake
Of all the great classics performed by ABT today, Swan Lake remains the quintessential ballet. Featuring the unforgettable corps de ballet moving in magical unison as the majestic, glimmering swans, this romantic fable of dreamlike transformation, set to Tchaikovsky’s glorious score, inspires awe and wonder.
Woolf Works
Wayne McGregor’s award-winning ballet triptych Woolf Works re-creates the emotions, themes and fluid style of three of Virginia Woolf’s novels: Mrs. Dalloway, Orlando and The Waves. With inspiration also enmeshed with elements from her letters, essays and diaries, Woolf Works expresses the heart of an artistic life driven to discover a freer, uniquely modern realism. It brings to life Woolf’s world of “granite and rainbow”, where human beings are at once both physical body and uncontained essence. Created for The Royal Ballet in 2015, Woolf Works is an ambitious, brave and thoughtful ballet set to challenge our expectations and take us to exhilarating new places.
Giselle
A timeless favorite, Giselle masterfully conveys the heartbreaking story of unrequited love, devasting loss and triumphant forgiveness. A heart-wrenching saga of love and mercy, Giselle tells the story of the titular village maiden in love with a handsome villager named Albrecht. What Giselle does not know is that her new paramour is a young nobleman in disguise and is already betrothed to another. When the truth is revealed, she dies of a broken heart, but ultimately returns from the grave to forgive her lover and save him from a vengeful death by the forest-dwelling Wilis.
The Winter's Tale
King Leontes of Sicilia is crippled with an all-consuming jealousy when his friend, King Polixenes of Bohemia, comes to stay with him and his wife Hermione. What follows is a tale in which a marriage is destroyed, a child is abandoned and hope lives on within two lovers. Receiving its New York Premiere during ABT’s 2025 Summer season, The Winter’s Tale is an award-winning modern ballet classic, based on Shakespeare’s play and packed with emotional turmoil and compelling atmospheric designs, featuring choreography by two-time Tony Award winner Christopher Wheeldon and an original score by Joby Talbot.
Sylvia
In this Arcadian love story, set in mythical Greece amid a realm of otherworldly creatures and verdant forests, the deity Eros intervenes to unite the nymph Sylvia with the lovelorn shepherd Aminta. The splendid score by Léo Delibes was so admired by Tchaikovsky that he purportedly declared: had he known the music existed at the time, he would never have composed Swan Lake!
ABTKids
Share the wonder of dance with your entire family as American Ballet Theatre presents ABTKids, a special, one-hour performance designed to introduce young audiences to the magic and beauty of dance. The performance, recommended for children ages 4-12, is narrated by a member of ABT’s Artistic staff and features child-friendly highlights from the Company’s vast repertoire.
