From left: Roman Zhurbin, Alessandra Ferri, Herman Cornejo and Cassandra Trenary in “I now, I then,” the first section of Wayne McGregor’s “Woolf Works,” in its American Ballet Theater debut at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York, June 25, 2024. McGregor’s 2015 work fails to make dance poetry of Virginia Woolf’s novels. (Erin Baiano/The New York Times)