Mixed repertory programs organized by the dancer who stars in them don’t tend to turn out well, but this endeavor by the Paris Opera Ballet étoile Hugo Marchand could be the exception. There is a preponderance of pas de deux, but they run the gamut from neoclassical Balanchine to appealingly primitivist Angelin Preljocaj to the influential Franco-American Carolyn Carson, whose imagistic work rarely travels to the States. Plus, Marchand has spread the parts among his fellow POB principals, including the soulful and musically vibrant Dorothée Gilbert. And in a break from the duets, the late Maurice Béjart’s Swiss repertory company will perform his homoerotic Firebird, a welcome addition to the panoply of Firebirds that have landed in New York this year. As for Marchand the dancer, he is a paragon of Michelangelic beauty but a reticent star. The work he is best at—full-bodied contemporary dance, on the one hand, and Balanchine’s airy neoclassicism, on the other—is represented on the program, but he’s not dancing it. Instead, the 32-year-old appears in Béjart’s kitschy Bolero—bare-chested on a platform above a battalion of rapturous men. —Apollinaire Scherr

This performance is presented with support from Dance Reflections by Van Cleef & Arpels.