ABT Lists Program for Center Dates

A new ballet by Twyla Tharp and the first Orange County performance of Agnes de Mille’s “The Informer” are among 11 works slated for mixed repertory programs during the American Ballet Theatre’s March 6 to 18 engagement at the Orange County Performing Arts Center.

Tharp’s “Brief Fling” will receive its world premiere during the company’s engagement in San Francisco immediately before the Orange County run. It will be danced here on dates to be announced. De Mille’s “The Informer” received its first performance in 1988 in Los Angeles.

Other repertory for the mixed bill programs will include Ashton’s “Birthday Offering”; Balanchine’s “Theme and Variations”; Tudor’s “Jardin aux lilas” and “Dark Elegies”; Tharp’s “Push Comes to Shove” and “In the Upper Room”; Clark Tippet’s “Some Assembly Required”; De Mille’s “Rodeo,” and the “Kingdom of the Shades,” as staged by Natalia Makarova, from “La Bayadere.” Dates will be announced.

The run also will include Kenneth MacMillan’s full-length “Romeo and Juliet,” previously announced. Single tickets to all programs go on sale Feb. 4. Information: (714) 556-2787.