New York Ballet Gives Repertory for O.C. Show

Preliminary casting has been announced by New York City Ballet for its seven-performance engagement beginning Tuesday at the Orange County Performing Arts Center in Costa Mesa.

Repertory includes West Coast premieres of George Balanchine’s “Vienna Waltzes,” Jerome Robbins’ “Gershwin Concerto” and two ballets by the company’s director, Peter Martins: “Ecstatic Orange” and “Fearful Symmetries.”

Opening night is an all-Balanchine program; all-Robbins bills are scheduled Thursday night and the afternoon of Sept. 29. Evening performances begin at 8, matinees at 2.

Sept. 25, evening: Concerto Barocco (Balanchine/Bach)--Heather Watts, Judith Fugate, Otto Neubert. Tarantella (Balanchine/Gottschalk)--Margaret Tracy, Damian Woetzel. The Four Temperaments (Balanchine/Hindemith)--Zippora Karz, Ben Huys, Wendy Whelan, Peter Naumann, Lauren Hauser, Nilas Martins, Peter Boal, Melinda Roy, Jock Soto, Adam Luders, Diana White. Tchaikovsky Suite No. 3 (Balanchine/Tchaikovsky)--Maria Calegari, Kipling Houston, Fugate, Martins, Nichol Hlinka, Gen Horiuchi, Merrill Ashley, Lindsay Fischer.

Sept. 26, evening: Mozartiana (Balanchine/Tchaikovsky)--Kyra Nichols, Woetzel, Horiuchi. Ecstatic Orange (Martins/Torke)--Watts, Soto, White, Philip Neal, Hauser, Albert Evans. Vienna Waltzes (Balanchine/J. Strauss, Lehar, R. Strauss)--Nichols, Fischer, Fugate, Robert LaFosse, Stacy Caddell, Michael Byars, Valentina Kozlova, Neubert, Calegari, Luders.

Sept. 27, evening: Fanfare (Robbins/Britten)--ensemble. Dances at a Gathering (Robbins/Chopin)--Nichols, Calegari, Hauser, Ashley, Whelan, LaFosse, Soto, Huys, Woetzel, Houston. Gershwin Concerto (Robbins/Gershwin)--Calegari, Roy, Houston, Neal.

Sept. 28, evening: Chaconne (Balanchine/Gluck)--Calegari, Luders, Kelly Cass, Boal, White, Hauser, Neal, Caddell, Jennifer Fuchs, Yvonne Borree, Sherri LeBlanc, Andrea Long, Marisa Cerveris, Kathleen Tracey, Tracy Bennett, Naumann. Fearful Symmetries (Martins/Adams)--Ashley, Alexandre Proia, Watts, Soto, Tracey, Evans. Stars and Stripes (Balanchine/Sousa)--Roy, Woetzel, Katrina Killian, Teresa Reyes, Horiuchi.

Sept. 29, matinee: Fanfare--ensemble. Dances at a Gathering--Watts, Calegari, Hauser, Ashley, Whelan, LaFosse, Soto, Huys, Woetzel, Houston. Gershwin Concerto--same as Sept. 27.

Sept. 29, evening: Stars and Stripes--Hlinka, Woetzel, Roma Sosenko, Reyes, Byars. Fearful Symmetries--same as Sept. 28. Tchaikovsky Suite No. 3--Calegari, Houston, Hauser, Martins, Killian, Horiuchi, Fugate, Fischer.

Sept. 30, matinee: Chaconne--Ashley, Luders, Cass, Boal, Simone Schumacher, Deborah Wingert, Neal, Sosenko, Fuchs, Borree, LeBlanc, Long, Tracey, Karz, Bennett, Charles Anderson. Ecstatic Orange--same as Sept. 26. Vienna Waltzes -- same as Sept. 26.