What’s better than a ballet?

Four ballets!

The Miami City Ballet brings its acclaimed company to the Kravis Center for Program III: The Masters, which features the choreography and music by the titans of the performance world.

The company will perform two masterworks by George Balanchine: the dramatic La Valse and the thrilling Tschaikovsky Pas de Deux, plus his enchanting The Steadfast Tin Soldier.

Balanchine’s La Valse uses music from Ravel in a dark and mysterious piece that features 34 dancers. The Steadfast Tin Soldier, set to the music of George Bizet, is a fairy tale. Tschaikovsky Pas de Deux uses the “lost music” of Swan Lake and dazzling dancers.

Symphonic Dances, the repertory premiere of choreographer Alexei Ratmansky, is the closing ballet for Program III. Ratmansky is the artist-in-residence at American Ballet Theatre, and The New Yorker called him “the man who is remaking ballet.” Commissioned by Miami City Ballet, Symphonic Dances is performed to Sergei Rachmaninoff’s final important work, his large-scale Symphonic Dances of 1941, known for its energy and emotion.

The Opus One Orchestra performs under the direction of principal conductor Gary Sheldon.