Choreographer in residence Loughlan Prior and designer Tracy Grant Lord reimagined The Firebird for a new generation, where the natural world was threatened and humanity was staring into the abyss of extinction. The story followed the firebird who was captured. She offered the possibility of redemption, but only if humankind was brave enough to follow her path. Like the phoenix, humanity could rise from the ashes and forge a new world. Prior said The Firebird drew on the beauty of the earth at its most elemental. “The vastness of the cosmos and the impact, both good and evil, of humans on our precious world."