TWO PREMIERES BY ABT AT SHRINE

American Ballet Theatre will offer two local premieres at its engagement in Shrine Auditorium, March 4-23. Kenneth MacMillan’s “Requiem” (set to the score of the same name by Andrew Lloyd Webber) will be presented opening night and March 5. David Gordon’s “Murder” (music by Berlioz) will receive its first performances here March 11 and 12.

“Requiem,” MacMillan’s seventh piece set on Ballet Theatre, is scheduled for its world premiere in Chicago in February. Gordon’s work, with designs by Edward Gorey, is his second for the company--ABT danced his “Field, Chair and Mountain” here last season.

Antony Tudor’s “Dim Lustre” (1943) will be danced here March 18 and 19.

Remaining repertory lists full-length mountings of “Giselle” (March 6-9), “Romeo and Juliet” (March 13-16) and “Don Quixote” (March 20-23). Other works include “La Bayadere, Act II,” “Bourree Fantasque,” “Symphonie Concertante,” “Push Comes to Shove,” “Swan Lake, Act II” and “Theme and Variations.”

Casting will be announced at a later date, although if all goes according to plan, company director Mikhail Baryshnikov is expected to appear in some performances of “Requiem” and “Murder.”

Information: (800) 472-2272.