What a difference a year makes! Last year, South Florida arts venues, theater and dance companies and musical ensembles were still cautiously resuming operations amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.

For most workers who are turning 40, retirement is still decades away.

Last year, when she announced the 2013-14 season, Miami City Ballet Artistic Director Lourdes Lopez promised she would challenge her dancers in ways they had never imagined. Challenging new works have consistently peppered her programs, but this Saturday in Program III: Triple Threat, her company not only danced, but provided audiences with a thrilling theatrical experience that included acting and singing.

Miami City Ballet dazzled audiences at the Kravis Center in West Palm Beach last weekend with a fascinating program of contemporary ballets, including two world premieres and a company premiere.

Miami City Ballet (MCB) is offering a busy schedule filled with some of ballet’s most revered works, including Jerome Robbins’s “West Side Story Suite,” “Afternoon of a Faun,” and the company premiere of “Antique Epigraphs.”