[WORLD PREMIERE] Celebrate Cincinnati Ballet's bright future in this extraordinary new double bill, featuring live music from Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra with Maestro Carmon DeLeone. Resident choreographer Adam Hougland collaborates with set and costume designer Marion Williams to bring his world premiere The Firebird to the Aronoff stage. Hougland and Williams apply their contemporary vision to Stravinsky's classical masterwork in this ballet that celebrates the composition's centennial.

[THEME AND VARIATIONS] On the same bill, Cincinnati Ballet honors 20th century master choreographer George Balanchine by presenting his homage to the Russian Imperial Ballet of his youth in Theme and Variations, set to Tchaikovsky's regal Suite No. 3.