DanceFor the first time, Ballet Pacifica will...

Dance

For the first time, Ballet Pacifica will try its hand--and feet--at Balanchine on Friday and Saturday at Irvine Barclay Theatre. The troupe will perform the neoclassic master’s brief but ever fleet “Valse Fantasie,” a dance for one couple and four corps de ballet members to a Michael Glinka score. The company’s winter program also includes Antony Tudor’s “Sunflowers” and William Soleau’s “Between People.”

* What: Ballet Pacifica’s winter program.

* When: Friday at 8 p.m.; Saturday at 2:30 and 8 p.m.

* Where: Irvine Barclay Theatre, 4242 Campus Drive, Irvine.

* Whereabouts: Exit the San Diego (405) Freeway at Jamboree Road; go south. Turn left onto Campus Drive. The theater is on Campus near Bridge Road, across from the Marketplace mall.

* Wherewithal: $15-$18; $6 student rush.

* Where to call: (714) 854-4646.

Theater

As if the “Canterbury Tales” weren’t bawdy enough, the New Vic Theatre of London gives the Chaucer masterpiece a contemporary and even bawdier twist Friday at Plummer Auditorium in Fullerton. In the New Vic version, the audience attends the 600th anniversary--the sexcentennial?--Geoffrey Chaucer Storytelling Competition, where unlikely candidates vie for voter approval.

The result is a neo-vaudevillian, audience-participation, Monty Python-style sendup full of boisterous physical comedy and wicked humor. Due to the adult nature of the performance, which is on Cal State Fullerton’s Professional Artists In Residence series, “Canterbury Tales” is not recommended for children.

* What: The New Vic Theatre’s “Canterbury Tales.”

* When: Friday at 8 p.m.

* Where: Plummer Auditorium, 201 E. Chapman Ave., Fullerton.

* Whereabouts: Exit the Riverside (91) Freeway at Harbor Boulevard; go north. Turn right onto Chapman Avenue.

* Wherewithal: $22.50-$27.50; $2 discount for students and seniors.

* Where to call: (714) 773-3371.

Pop

Repair-shop mechanic by day, do-it-yourself pop-rock craftsman in his off-hours, Jack Logan has emerged in the past couple of years as a wonderful rock amateur who has more stylistic range and songwriting vitality than most of the careerist pros.

Logan and his supportive cast of Athens, Ga., buddies have issued two albums, “Bulk” and the new “Mood Elevator,” that put him up there with anyone currently mining the grand tradition of omnivorous, muscular rock. Among the chief assets of this even-poorer-man’s Paul Westerberg are a roughly emotive voice and a knack for the concise lyrical touch that gets at complex feelings with just a well-chosen image or two.

* Who: Jack Logan and Liquor Cabinet, Perfect.

* When: Friday at 8 p.m.

* Where: Coach House, 33157 Camino Capistrano, San Juan Capistrano.

* Whereabouts: Exit Interstate 5 at Camino Capistrano; turn left onto Camino Capistrano. The Coach House is in the Esplanade Plaza, on the right.

* Wherewithal: $10.

* Where to call: (714) 496-8930.

Family Affair

The coolest dude ever to sport a flea collar is the star of Broadway on Tour’s latest musical offering--a work that suits the youth troupe, according to BOT founder and director Dan Halkyard.

“The story kind of corrects adult beliefs about kids,” said Halkyard. “It proves that kids see things differently, but a lot more clearly than we think, which is actually the same message we try to get across in children’s theater.”

Recommended for kindergartners through adults, the one-hour show features the dog celebre, along with the rest of the “Peanuts” gang, in back-to-back pop and Gershwin-style tunes.

* What: Broadway on Tour’s “Snoopy.”

* When: Saturdays and Sundays at 2:30 p.m. through April 14 (no shows March 16 and 17).

* Where: Grove Theater Center’s Gem Theatre, 12852 Main St., Garden Grove.

* Whereabouts: Exit the Garden Grove (22) Freeway at Euclid Street; go north. Turn left onto Acacia Street, then right onto Main Street.

* Wherewithal: $6-$8.

* Where to call: (714) 741-9550.