Danish Ballet Will Perform in O.C. in June : Dance: August Bournonville’s works, including a new production of ‘Napoli,’ will be on the program of the troupe’s only engagement on the West Coast next year.

COSTA MESA —  The famed Royal Danish Ballet will perform next June at the Orange County Performing Arts Center in the first West Coast appearance by the full company since 1965, Center officials announced Thursday. It will be one of only two U.S. stops for the troupe next year and the only West Coast engagement.

The company will perform works by Danish choreographer August Bournonville, including a new production of the full-length 1842 ballet “Napoli,” one of Bournonville’s principal works. The new staging of “Napoli” (by Dinna Bjorn, Henning Kronstam and company artistic director Frank Andersen) will premiere in Copenhagen next March, on the 150th anniversary of its first performance.

The Orange County engagement will also include two programs of mixed repertory. The first will feature Bournonville’s 1836 version of Filippo Taglioni’s “La Sylphide,” coupled with the third act of “Napoli.”

The second program will feature the U.S. premiere of the two-act “Konservatoriet,” the pas de deux from “The Flower Festival in Genzano” (all that remains of the original ballet) and “La Sylphide.”

Bournonville (1805-1879) directed the Royal Danish Ballet from 1830 to 1877 after joining the company as a dancer at age 15. He left a lasting stamp on Danish dance, and his works remain the core of the Royal Danish Ballet’s repertory.

The company’s engagement in Costa Mesa, along with a subsequent stop at the Kennedy Center in Washington, is planned as a part of the 1992 Bournonville Festival in Copenhagen. The company’s U.S. schedule was announced Thursday in New York by Andersen.

The most recent U.S. performances by the Royal Danish Ballet were in 1988, at the Kennedy Center and at New York City’s Metropolitan Opera House. The full company last visited the West Coast in 1965 for performances at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, but some company members danced at UC Irvine in 1989 and in previous years at numerous Southland venues.

The Royal Danish Ballet will perform June 9 through 14 in Costa Mesa. The engagement is the first announced by the Center for its 1992-93 dance series.