American Ballet Theatre wraps up its summer season at the Metropolitan Opera House this week, but will return to Lincoln Center later this year for its just-announced fall season, running October 15-November 1 at the David H. Koch Theater. The company has also announced its first-ever spring season at the Koch Theatre, which will take place March 6-21, 2026, occupying the venue in between the New York City Ballet's winter and spring seasons.

The fall season will include the world premiere of Have We Met?!, a new commission by Juliano Nunes, to music by Luke Howard. The world premiere will be paired on a program alongside George Balanchine's Theme and Variations, and Alexei Ratmansky's Serenade after Plato's Symposium, set to the violin concerto by Leonard Bernstein.

A program celebrating choreographer Twyla Tharp will receive four performance from October 15-24. Twyla@60: A Tharp Celebration will include the ABT company premiere of Tharp's Sextet, as well as revivals of Bach Partita and Push Comes to Shove, the latter of which was Tharp's inaugural work for the company.

A Retrospective of Master Choreographers will feature Michel Fokine's Les Sylphides, Antony Tudor's Gala Performance, and Agnes de Mille's Rodeo. Les Sylphides, often considered one of the earliest ballets to be more about tone than story, was originally choreographed by Fokine to a collection of Chopin piano works orchestrated by Alexander Glazunov. Other composers have orchestrated the suite over the years, and ABT will perform the work using Benjamin Britten's. Gala Performance set to music by Prokofiev, is described as "a clever and lighthearted satire of ballet’s grand traditions." Rodeo, with a score by Aaron Copland, is an American ballet about cowboys and ranchers, and it was on the merits of this 1942 ballet that de Mille was hired to choreograph Rodgers and Hammerstein's groundbreaking musical Oklahoma!

The final program of the fall season, titled Classics to the Contemporary, will feature Natalia Marakova's The Kingdom of the Shades, and the third act of Tchaikovsky's The Sleeping Beauty, as well as assorted pas de deux by Christian Spuck, Twyla Tharp, Victor Gsovsky, Alexei Ratmansky, and Frederick Ashton.

As previously announced, the fall gala, taking place October 22, will celebrate the career of ABT Principal Dancer Misty Copland, who retires from the company this year after 25 years with the company.

ABT's 2026 spring season will feature eight performances of Lar Lubovitch's Othello, running March 6-20. Based on Shakespeare's tragedy, the three-act ballet is set to an original score by Elliot B. Goldenthal, and features scenic design by George Tsypin, costumes by Ann Hould-Ward, lighting by Pat Collins, and projections by Wendall K. Harrington. Othello received its world premiere in 1997, and was last performed by ABT in 2015.

Alexei Ratmansky's Firebird will receive nine performances running March 13-21. Ratmansky's setting of Stravinsky's one-act ballet features scenery by Simon Pastukh, costumes by Galina Solovyeva, lighting by Brad Fields, and projections by Wendall K. Harrington. At certain performances, Firebird will be paired with George Balanchine's Mozartiana, and at others it will be performed with Marius Petipa's Raymonda: Grand Pas Hongrois.

For more details about the upcoming season, including ticketing information, visit ABT.org.