Ballet Pacifica Announces New Season

Ballet Pacifica’s 2001-2002 season will include the world premiere of Robert Sund’s “Liaisons,” a children’s series and Tchaikovsky’s holiday favorite, “Nutcracker.”

Sund’s work, set to music by Bach, Vivaldi and Handel, will be a collaboration with cellist Tanya Tomkins and harpsichordist Corey Jamason performed Oct. 5-6. Other pieces on that program will be Antony Tudor’s “Sunflowers” and artistic director Molly Lynch’s “Different Trains,” set to music of Steve Reich. All concerts will be at the Irvine Barclay Theatre.

Other upcoming programs: March 22-23, Balanchine’s “Allegro Brillante,” Sund’s “Ravelesque,” and Lynch’s “City Sky”; June 14-15, Lynch’s “Romeo and Juliet: A Dance Suite,” “Double Contrasts” by Choo-San Goh and Tina Gerstler’s “Personal Statements-Common Knowledge” with music by Lisbeth Scott.

The children’s series will be performed at the Festival Forum Theatre in Laguna Beach with family fare such as “Cinderella,” “Pinocchio,” “The Pied Piper,” “Safari,” “Three Ring Circus” and others. Programs will be on the weekends of Oct. 20-21, Feb. 9-10, March 9-10 and April 13-14.

“Nutcracker” will be performed Dec. 14-24 at the Irvine Barclay Theatre. Information: (949) 851-9930, Ext. 107.