Kirov Dancers to Join in ABT Spring Season

American Ballet Theatre has announced that Altynai Assylmuratova and Konstantin Zaklinsky, principal dancers of the Kirov Ballet, will appear with the company during its spring season at the Shrine Auditorium.

The Shrine programs also feature the local premiere of new works by Twyla Tharp, “The Bum’s Rush,” “Quartet” and “Everlast.”

The schedule:

March 7, 8 p.m.: “La Bayadere” (Petipa/Minkus)--Cynthia Harvey, Andris Liepa. “Prodigal Son” (Balanchine/Prokofiev) Cynthia Gregory, Danilo Radojevic. “Everlast” (Tharp/Kern) Kevin O’Day, Anne Adair, Susan Jaffe.

March 8, 8 p.m.: “La Bayadere”--Marianna Tcherkassky, Radojevic. “Prodigal Son”--Martine van Hamel, Johann Renvall. “In the Upper Room” (Tharp/Glass)--company.

March 9, 8 p.m.: “The Bum’s Rush” (Tharp/Hyman)--company. “Quartet” (Tharp/Riley)--Gregory, Harvey, Ricardo Bustamante, Guillaume Graffin. “Everlast”--O’Day, Adair, Jaffe.

March 10, 8 p.m.: “Swan Lake” (Baryshnikov/Tchaikovsky)--Christine Dunham, Ross Stretton, Clark Tippet.

March 11, 2 p.m.: “Swan Lake”--Jaffe, Liepa, Michael Owen.

March 11, 8 p.m.: “Swan Lake”--Gregory, Stretton, Owen.

March 12, 2 p.m.: “Swan Lake”--Leslie Browne, Bustamante, Victor Barbee.

March 12, 8 p.m.: “Swan Lake”--Assylmuratova, Zaklinsky, Tippet.

March 14, 8 p.m.: “Swan Lake”--Assylmuratova, Zaklinsky, Tippet.

March 15, 8 p.m.: “Swan Lake”--Harvey, Jeremy Collins, Barbee.

March 16, 8 p.m.: “Rigaudon” (Tippet/Britten)--company. “Drink to Me Only With Thine Eyes” (Morris/Thomson)--company. “Gaite Parisienne” (Massine/Offenbach)--Jaffe, Bustamante, Radojevic.

March 17, 8 p.m.: “Romeo and Juliet” (MacMillan/Prokofiev)--Browne, Liepa, Renvall.

March 18, 2 p.m.: “Romeo and Juliet”--Alessandra Ferri, Bustamante, Gil Boggs.

March 18, 8 p.m.: “Romeo and Juliet”--Tcherkassky, Stretton, Radojevic.

March 19, 2 p.m.: “Romeo and Juliet”--Amanda McKerrow, Wes Chapman, John Gardner.

March 19, 8 p.m.: “Romeo and Juliet”--Ferri, Bustamante, Radojevic.