Whipped Cream

Delightfully whimsical, this new full-length production springs from the imagination of ABT artist-in-residence Alexei Ratmansky and pop surrealist Mark Ryden. Based on the 1924 Viennese ballet Schlagobers (Whipped Cream) with music by Richard Strauss. Whipped Cream follows a young boy who overindulges at a Viennese pastry shop and falls into a delirium. Ratmansky and moderator John Meehan discussed the new work and ABT dancers performed excerpts prior to the New York premiere.