Talk about a bargain! Thanks to a generous and enlightened donor, there are now $25 seats available for nearly every performance of New York City Ballet’s winter season. This individual’s underwriting makes possible the sale of 50 such seats—normally priced at $90—for all but three of the 56 performances of repertory programs that begin tomorrow and continue through Mar. 1.
With the snowflakes and candy canes of “The Nutcracker” banished back to storage, the company now gets down to business, offering a dozen diverse programs of works by George Balanchine, Jerome Robbins, Christopher Wheeldon, Peter Martins and others. You can select the generous all-Balanchine evening (offered four times this week), which goes from the luminous elegance of “Chaconne” to the bracing angularity of “The Four Temperaments” to the sweeping extravagance of “Vienna Waltzes.” Or take in the theatrical brilliance of Robbins in a diverse program to be offered Jan. 15, 20 and 21. Other programs mix and match works by several choreographers, sometimes according to musical connections; “20th Century Music Masters” (Feb. 4, 7, 13 and 15) ranges from Stravinsky to Ravel to Bernstein. If you’re focused on what’s new, check out last season’s sensational new work, Alexei Ratmansky’s “Concerto DSCH” or be even bolder and head for the New Combinations program (Jan. 22, 25, 31 and Feb. 3) that includes two world premieres by choreographers new to the company.
The $25 tickets go on sale each Monday for the following week’s seven performances. The tickets will be sold through CenterCharge at 212-721-6500, and at the box office at the David H. Koch Theater at Lincoln Center. They will not be sold online. Full information about New York City Ballet’s programs and repertory is available at www.nycballet.com.
