Center’s dance season

The Southern California premiere of Mark Morris’ “Mozart Dances” and Kirov Ballet star Diana Vishneva in “Romeo and Juliet” will highlight the 2007-08 Dance at the Music Center season, announced by the Music Center of Los Angeles County.

The Mark Morris Dance Group will perform “Mozart Dances,” set to three complete Mozart works, Oct. 20-21 at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion. The music consists of the Piano Concertos Nos. 11 and 27 and the Sonata in D for Two Pianos.

Vishneva will appear in the opening-night performance of choreographer Kenneth MacMillan’s “Romeo and Juliet,” also at the Pavilion, on July 1, 2008, with the Teatro alla Scala Ballet Company. A ballerina to be announced will take over as Juliet on July 2.

The Music Center dance season will open Sept. 17 with the West Coast premiere of David Michalek’s “Slow Dancing,” a free outdoor video installation that will be projected nightly through Sept. 26 at the Music Center Plaza. The work, which was commissioned by the center, will include hyper-slow-motion video portraits of such major contemporary dance figures as Trisha Brown, Bill T. Jones, William Forsythe and Judith Jamison and dancers considered national treasures in countries in Southeast Asia, along the Pacific Rim and in Africa.

The remainder of the season, also at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, will include American Ballet Theatre in artistic director Kevin McKenzie’s “Swan Lake,” March 27-30, and Dwight Rhoden and Desmond Richardson’s Complexions Contemporary Ballet in the Southern California premiere of Rhoden’s “Chapters,” set to the music of Marvin Gaye, April 11-13.

chris.pasles@latimes.com