ABT Guest Artists Limit Dates : Ballet: Carla Fracci and Fernando Bujones will sidestep Orange County. The troupe will perform at the Performing Arts Center March 12-24.

Carla Fracci of Italy and Fernando Bujones of Miami will be guest artists with American Ballet Theatre this season but will not dance here during ABT’s March 12 through 24 engagement at the Performing Arts Center, a company spokesman said.

Fracci, one of the great Giselles of her generation, and Bujones, the Miami-born firebrand who captured attention when at 19 he won a gold medal at the Varna International Ballet Competition in Bulgaria, will dance only in New York City and Washington, the ABT spokesman said.

Bujones was seen locally as Lensky in John Cranko’s “Onegin” with the National Ballet of Canada at the Performing Arts Center in 1988.

The company also has announced repertory for the run, which includes the full-length “Coppelia” (March 15 through 17) and “La Bayadere (March 19 through 22):

* March 12 and 13, 8 p.m.: Balanchine’s “Ballet Imperial” (Tchaikovsky), de Mille’s “Fall River Legend” (Morton Gould) and Kylian’s “Sinfonietta” (Janacek).

* March 14, 8 p.m.: “Swan Lake” Act II (Tchaikovsky), a new work by Clark Tippet (Michael Tippet) and “Sinfonietta.”

* March 23, 2 p.m.: MacMillan’s “Concerto” (Shostakovich), Tippet ballet, Twyla Tharp’s “Brief Fling” (Michel Colombier and Percy Grainger).

* March 23, 8 p.m.: “Concerto,” Tippet, “Sinfonietta.”

* March 24, 2 p.m.: “Concerto,” “Swan Lake” Act II, “Brief Fling.”

* March 24, 8 p.m.: “Concerto,” “Fall River Legend,” “Brief Fling.”

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