This is Welch's fifth work for the Houston Ballet.
The program also includes the company premiere of Maurice B_jart's Songs of a Wayfarer, set to Mahler's song cycle Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen. The ballet was created in 1971 for Paolo Bortoluzzi and Rudolf Nureyev.
Among the other works included in the program are excerpts from George Balanchine's Apollo, Kenneth MacMillan's Manon, and Frederick Ashton's La Fille mal gard_e, as well as works by Timothy O'Keefe and Welch.
Houston Ballet was founded in 1969 by Nina Popova, a former dancer with the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo and American Ballet Theatre. James Clouser and Ben Stevenson have also served as artistic director. With 52 dancers, the company is the fifth largest in the United States.