pair Quiz

The dancers in Ian Falconer’s striking costumes — black or red suits of cards on white tutus and bodytights — create lovely geometries, either alone or behind the coquettish duos for the principal pairs.

Aside from a preference for wines from grapes grown organically or biodynamically, Ms. Feiring has one major rule for pairing wine with highly spiced foods: “Oak and high alcohol don’t work,” she said.