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EIFMAN COMETH: As New York City Ballet’s yearlong Balan chine centennial celebration prepares to move into its last week, tonight the company has one last surprise for us, a world premiere by Boris Eifman, Russia’s most famous living choreographer. Peter Martins, Balanchine’s longtime suc cessor as artistic director, has commissioned Eifman to stage this new work, his first ever for an American company, as a tribute. Eifman, who actually created the work in re hearsal on his own dancers in Russia and then taught it to City Ballet, has been inspired in this work called “Musagete” (translated loosely as “Leader of the Muses”) by Balan chine’s achievement and personality. Eifman himself says: “It is not a biographical ballet, but there is the personality of the choreographer.” It seems that that personality will be principally portrayed by a British-born City Ballet principal, Robert Tewsley. The scenery and costumes are by Eifman’s customary collaborator, Slava Okunev, and the large-scale work (in addition to Tewsley there are six soloists and an en semble of 24) is set to Bach, a little Georgian music (in honor of Balanchine’s ethnic Georgian heritage) and ends with the finale of Tchaikovsky’s Fourth Symphony. “Musa gete” will be repeated this season only tomorrow, Tuesday and Thursday. New York State Theater, Lincoln Center; (212) 870-5570.