WORKS & PROCESS PRESENTS
AMERICAN BALLET THEATRE
CRIME AND PUNISHMENT BY HELEN PICKETT

PANEL (in alphabetical order)
James Bonas, Director and Treatment Writer
Susan Jaffe, Artistic Director, American Ballet Theatre, Moderator
Helen Pickett, Choreographer, Co-Director, and Treatment Writer
Jennifer Tipton, Lighting Designer

AMERICAN BALLET THEATRE DANCERS (in alphabetical order)
Joseph Markey, Corps de Ballet
SunMi Park, Soloist
Calvin Royal III, Principal Dancer
Christine Shevchenko, Principal Dancer
Ingrid Thoms, Corps de Ballet
Cassandra Trenary, Principal Dancer

Leadership support of ABT’s New Works Initiative is provided by the Blavatnik Family Foundation, The Ted and Mary Jo Shen Charitable Gift Fund, and through an endowed gift from The Toni and Martin Sosnoff New Works Fund.

The World Premiere of Crime and Punishment is made possible in part with support from the Rockefeller Brothers Fund.

PROGRAM NOTES
Written in 1866 by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment is a devastatingly modern psychological thriller that provided Helen Pickett and James Bonas with a startling source for a ballet. The protagonist Raskolnikov is, at once, a brilliant student forced to stop his studies due to brutal poverty, a person capable of great warmth and generosity, a loyal family member and friend, and an appalling murderer. These contradictions are so real and so vivid that this young man’s journey towards redemption has captured readers for over 150 years.

The powerful physicality of Raskolnikov’s life, the web of relationships and drama that surround him, and the profound humanity that Dostoyevsky discovers all speak to today’s world and beg to be explored in dance. Choreographer, co-director, and treatment writer Helen Pickett, alongside director and treatment writer James Bonas, brings Raskolnikov’s story to life in this striking new ballet, featuring music by Isobel Waller-Bridge, sets and costumes by Soutra Gilmour, lighting design by Jennifer Tipton, and video design by Tal Yarden.

Crime and Punishment will receive its World Premiere on Wednesday, October 30 at 7:30 P.M. at the David H. Koch Theater at Lincoln Center. Performances will run through Sunday, November 3. For tickets and more information, visit abt.org.

Crime and Punishment will be brought to The Kennedy Center in Washington DC, for seven performances from February 12–16, 2025. For tickets and more information, visit kennedy-center.org.