With spring the season for change and renewal, it’s fitting the American Ballet Theatre arrives at the Segerstrom Center for the Arts this week in fresh fashion, with a new artistic director behind the scenes and on stage with the North American premiere of the story ballet, “Like Water for Chocolate.”
ABT is newly headed by Susan Jaffe, a longtime principal dancer for the New York-based company and a veteran of many performances in Costa Mesa – back to the creation of the center in the late 1980s.