The world premiere of the choreographer Alexei Ratmansky’s take on Shakespeare’s “Tempest†will open the American Ballet Theater’s first fall season at the David H. Koch Theater at Lincoln Center, the company announced Wednesday. Mr. Ratmansky, a former director of the Bolshoi Ballet who has been an artist in residence at the Ballet Theater since 2009, will also be contributing his recent version of Shostakovich’s “Piano Concerto #1,†which had its premiere during the spring season.
“The Tempest,†which features sets and costumes by Santo Loquasto and has the Tony Award-winning director Mark Lamos as its dramaturge, will be performed five times during the fall season, beginning with an opening night gala benefit on Oct. 30. The music for Mr. Ratmansky’s “Tempest†was written by the Finnish composer Jean Sibelius for a 1926 production and originally consisted of 35 pieces, lasting one hour.
The Ballet Theater’s fall program also includes revivals of several works, inluding Michel Fokine’s classic “Les Sylphides†and Mark Morris’s more recent “Gong.†But the least-seen of the revivals is clearly Twyla Tharp’s “Bach Partita,†based on Bach’s partita #2 in D minor for solo violin, which had its premiere at the Ballet Theater in 1983 but which has not been performed there since 1985.
