After Belgium, Mark Morris Looks to U.S. : Dance: Choreographer will return with his company from Brussels to take up residency in Massachusetts in 1992.

Choreographer Mark Morris and his 18-member dance company will establish residency with two Massachusetts production companies starting in 1992. In Boston, Morris will spend 10 weeks in residence at the Dance Umbrella, a production company that has presented several premieres by the Mark Morris Dance Company. During the summer, Morris will spend eight weeks at Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival in western Massachusetts.

Morris, 34, originally from Seattle, has earned an international reputation for his contemporary dance choreography. He and his company are performing with Mikhail Baryshnikov in New York and are in the last year of a residency at the Theatre Royal de la Monnaie in Brussels.

His stay in Belgium has been a stormy one and no plans were made to renew the contract, which expires in June, said Barry Alterman, manager for the Mark Morris Dance Company, by telephone in New York, where the troupe was on tour.

“Paradoxically,” Alterman said, “the connections which have been developing in Boston over the past two years have been strengthened since we’ve been in Brussels. These were the kinds of things we hoped to establish in Brussels. But seeds just didn’t take in the soil; it seems like . . . it will in Boston.”

According to Alterman, bitter resentment against the Monnaie director, Gerard Mortier, who precipitated the departure of the Bejart Ballet (the resident company before Morris’), was inevitably directed against the Morris company.

“Because we were seen as Mr. Mortier’s chosen people,” said Alterman, “we were identified with him. And so all the anger and all the resentment that was focused on him for making Bejart leave, sort of fell on us.”

Jaremy Alliger, executive director of Dance Umbrella, said the Morris residency would be a financial challenge. He estimated the cost of a three-year Morris company residency at $500,000 a year, in addition to his current annual budget of $1.4 million.

Sam Miller, executive director at Jacob’s Pillow, said: “Having a dancer of Mark’s stature in our community can only confirm Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival’s international role in dance today.”

Dance Umbrella and Jacob’s Pillow will not be the only companies to be affiliated with Morris in Massachusetts. Kenneth L. Freed, chairman of the board of directors of the newly formed Boston Opera Theater, said that talks are under way for Morris to direct and choreograph an opera, probably Gluck’s “Orfeo ed Euridice” in 1992 or 1993.

The Boston Opera Theater, affiliated with director Peter Sellars, will have its first production in January with Mozart’s “Le Nozze di Figaro,” which features Morris’ choreography. Sellars and Morris, who collaborated on “Nixon in China,” are also working together on a new opera by John Adams, “The Death of Klinghoffer.”