Center Announces ‘92-93 Dance Series

The return of the Kirov and the Spanish National ballets, a world premiere of a work by Glen Tetley and rare (for the hall) performances of modern dance by the Paul Taylor Dance Company will be included in the 1992-93 dance series at the Orange County Performing Arts Center.

As previously announced, the Royal Danish Ballet will dance three programs of works by August Bournonville.

The Kirov, here from May 19 to 24, will dance Leonid Lavrovsky’s choreography for “Romeo and Juliet” as restaged last year by company artistic director Oleg Vinogradov (Lavrovsky worked with Prokofiev and choreographed the first Kirov production in 1940) and a program of shorter works, to be announced, by Balanchine and Tudor.

Among the artists confirmed for the engagement, according to Center President Thomas R. Kendrick, who announced the season Monday, are Altynai Asslymuratova, Andris Liepa, Tatiana Terekhova, Yulia Makhalina, Faruk Ruzimatov and Igor Zelensky.

The Spanish National Ballet (called the Royal Spanish National Ballet when it came to the Center in 1988) will dance “The Three-Cornered Hat” to the familiar Falla score, using costumes and sets reproduced from Picasso’s original designs, and works by Spanish choreographers, among them company artistic director Jose Antonio, during its engagement, Oct. 6 through 11.

The Taylor Company--only the second modern dance troupe ever offered in a Center series--will be here from Nov. 28 to 29 dancing “Company B” (music by the Andrew Sisters), with different short works on each program.

The American Ballet Theatre, from Jan. 19 to 24, will dance the Tetley premiere, a new staging of “The Firebird,” Agnes de Mille’s “The Other” (to premiere in Washington, D.C., next month) and a new staging of a full-length ballet to be announced.

The Royal Danish company, June 9 through 14, will dance Bournonville’s “Napoli,” “La Sylphide,” “Konservatoriet” and the pas de deux from “Flower Festival in Genzano.”

Subscription tickets, good for all but the Taylor engagement, go on sale March 15 at prices ranging from $65 to $219. Taylor tickets initially will be available only to subscribers for an additional $13 to $36. Remaining tickets for individual programs will go on sale about six weeks before each engagement.

Kendrick said the Center will use $800,000 of last’s year’s $1.1-million surplus to “prepay the subsidy” required for the dance season, to prevent the Center from “having to go up in our fund-raising goals.”