New York City Ballet: Classic NYCB I

DANCE
THURSDAY & SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 6 & 9, 2020 (continuing through FEBRUARY 29)
7:30 PM THURSDAY
3:00 PM SUNDAY

David H. Koch Theater
20 Lincoln Center Plaza, Upper West Side, Manhattan

$35-$200
https://www.nycballet.com/Season-Tickets/19-20-Season-Page/Winter-2020/classic-nycb-i.aspx

I'm recommending this for Episodes — setting the ethereally precise music of Webern — the Balanchine piece that most looks like it could have been choreographed the day before yesterday.  Also for Rodeo:  Four Dance Episodes, which to me remains Justin Peck's very best work — and in which Sara Mearns is sassy and radiant.  And occasionally NYCB dusts off a Balanchine piece that nobody's seen; in this program, it's the strongly neoclassical (and hence right in Balanchine's sweet spot) Haieff Divertimento.

MAKE A NIGHT OF IT:  There's nothing special about Joanne Trattoria — but it is owned by Lady Gaga's parents.