Performer: Christine Shevchenko

Great novels make bad ballets. There might be exceptions to this rule, but this isn't it. 

A strong opening to ABT’s fall season, the company often seemed stagnant in the last years of Kevin McKenzie’s directorship. It is now more exciting. New leadership, new faces.

Wheeldon lacks the imagination to take this story beyond that of a well-crafted adaptation of a beloved movie.