Ballet Pacifica Year to Include 5 Premieres

IRVINE —  Ballet Pacifica’s 34th season will feature five new ballets, three of them works for children.

A new, still untitled work by David Allan with music by Henryck Gorecki will highlight the season’s first Concert Series program, Oct. 11-12 at Irvine Barclay Theatre. Gorecki’s string quartet “Quasi una Fantasia” accompanies the work. Rick McCullough’s “By Lamplight” and Robert Sund’s “Tchaikovsky’s Trio” complete the program.

Also at the Irvine Barclay, the March 21-22 program features William Soleau’s “Dream Dialogues,” Diane Coburn Bruning’s “Remote Relationships” and Michel Fokine’s “Les Sylphides.”

The June 13-14 program there includes the premiere of Sund’s contemporary adaptation of “Carmen” with a Miles Davis score, plus “Counterpoint” by Ballet Pacifica artistic director Molly Lynch, and Israel El Gabriel’s “Duetto.”

Children’s programs, at the Festival of Arts Forum Theatre, are: “Old MacDonald’s Farm” (premiere) and “Shoemaker and the Elves,” Sept. 28-29; “Tubby the Tuba” (premiere) and “Twelve Dancing Princesses,” Feb. 22-23; “Jack and the Beanstalk” (premiere) and “The Hilarious Tales of Peter Rabbit,” April 27-27; and “Something’s Fishy” and “The Ugly Duckling” May 17-18.

The company will perform Lynch’s “The Nutcracker” for the 30th year Dec. 13-24 at Irvine Barclay.

Single tickets range from $6 for student and senior rush to $16. Concert series subscriptions run $40 to $50. (714) 851-9930.