SCR slates behind-the-scenes ballet play

What’s good enough for Robert Altman and Neve Campbell apparently is good enough for South Coast Repertory.

The Costa Mesa theater has filled the open slot in its season with the April 30 world premiere of “The Studio” by Christopher d’Amboise. Billed as a “play with dance,” it focuses on the creation of a ballet.

While Altman and Campbell enlisted the entire Joffrey Ballet of Chicago for their recent film, “The Company,” “The Studio” boils down the process to one room and three characters: a choreographer and the two dancers he is working with amid various personal entanglements.

D’Amboise, son of choreographer-dancer Jacques d’Amboise, was a New York City Ballet principal dancer and from 1990 to 1994 the artistic director of Pennsylvania Ballet.

He will direct and choreograph his show, which will run through May 16.