Ballet

Sylvia

3 upcoming performances in New York

At American Ballet Theatre, *Sylvia* returns as a full-length classical ballet shaped by Léo Delibes’s score and a lineage of choreography that includes Frederick Ashton. The story draws on myth: a nymph devoted to Diana is pulled between duty, desire, and the disruptions of love and mischief. In ABT’s current programming, it sits alongside Ashton repertory staged with the Frederick Ashton Foundation, placing British choreographic craft in dialogue with a New York company’s classical identity. Its enduring value lies in how clean academic steps are made to read as character and plot.