For his 25th work for the New York City Ballet, resident choreographer Justin Peck returns to Dan Deacon, whose darkly glimmering electronic album America propelled the choreographer’s 2017 The Times Are Racing towards a new urgency and melancholy. This time, Deacon, who will conduct the winter performances, has composed a score specially for Peck. The ballet’s name is Mystic Familiar, which—together with the Suprematist and Native American persuasions of the painter the choreographer has recruited for set design, the 2024 Whitney Biennialist Eamon Ore-Giron—carries us into the transcendental. Balanchine’s ironic Weimaresque duet, the 1974 Variations pour une Porte et un Soupir, to Pierre Henry’s electronic score of creaks and whines, and Christopher Wheeldon’s 2023 From You Within Me, which Schoenberg’s Verkläkte Nacht cannot save from clunky construction and overly broad strokes, complete the New Combinations program. —Apollinaire Scherr