ABT in Wheeldon’s The Winter’s Tale: CliffsNotes Shakespeare

Skylar Brandt as Perdita and American Ballet Theatre in Wheeldon's The Winter's Tale

Cassandra Trenary as Hermione in Christopher Wheeldon's The Winter's Tale

Jake Roxander, James Whiteside, Claire Davison, Herman Cornejo, Skylar Brandt in The Winter's Tale

By Ivy Lin, 03 July 2025

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“The Winter’s Tale is quite simply the best-looking ballet I have ever seen”

Reviewed at Lincoln Center: Metropolitan Opera House, New York City on 2 July 2025

The Winter's Tale (Christopher Wheeldon)

American Ballet Theatre

Bob Crowley, Set Designer, Costume Designer

Natasha Katz, Lighting Designer

Cassandra Trenary, Dancer

Herman Cornejo, Dancer

Skylar Brandt, Dancer

Jake Roxander, Dancer

Atlanta Ballet shines in a mixed contemporary program

Rebecca Ehrhardt, 3rd April

Atlanta Ballet's Golden Hour program featured two world premieres and the Atlanta premiere of Christopher Wheeldon's Within the Golden Hour.

*****

NYCB: Ratmansky’s The Naked King is not satire, but good fun

Ivy Lin, 7th February

New York City Ballet presents a very entertaining quadruple bill which includes Alexei Ratmansky’s latest work, The Naked King, showing off the company’s comic talents.

****1

The Royal Ballet’s Like Water for Chocolate is sumptuous but complex

Amanda Jennings, 1st October

The Royal Ballet’s season opener, Christopher Wheeldon’s Like Water for Chocolate, is visually tremendous, very well danced but the many principal and soloist characters are difficult to keep up with.

****1

Ballet Nights makes an impressive and unforgettable Scottish debut

Kathy Elgin, 4th July

Ballet Nights is more than an evening of party pieces: it showcases emerging talent alongside older favourites and, in the case of this first Scottish outing, has an eye to local tradition.

****1

Wheeldon’s Alice: The Royal Ballet shines in a vehicle of excellence

Amanda Jennings, 13th June

Christopher Wheeldon's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland shows off The Royal Ballet's roster of supreme dance actors in every version of technical wizardry and comic incarnation.

****1

Wheeldon's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland dazzles again in Tokyo

Naomi Mori, 12th June

Christopher Wheeldon’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland returned to the National Ballet of Japan, a marvelous production that amply displays the many talents of the company.

****1

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Ivy Lin

Ivy Lin's love of ballet began in high school when at the school dance she quickly realized she had two left feet. One always admires things one cannot do, and so Ivy began to attend dance performances to marvel at the grace and beauty of bodies in motion. Ivy's day job is a biology teacher and after a long day in the classroom she loves to unwind by watching dance. She also enjoys theater, opera, pop and classical music. Ivy has her own blog (www.humbledandoverwhelmed,blogspot.com)