Septime Webre, artistic director of the Washington Ballet, has topped himself with “Hemingway: The Sun Also Rises,” his latest production making its world premiere this week at the Kennedy Center.

Three years ago, his company journeyed to the Roaring ’20s via his unique choreographing of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Great Gatsby,” complete with jazz band and vocalist. When a friend who taught American literature at Yale suggested that TWB dancer Sona Kharatian, who was a hit as Myrtle in “The Great Gatsby,” would make an amazing Brett Ashley in Ernest Hemingway’s “The Sun Also Rises,” Webre leaped into creative mode.