Artsy Stuff To Do This Weekend

Dancer/choreographer/curator Alice Gosti organizes Modern Dance Behind the Pink Door, a quarterly performance tonight at the Pink Door.

Modern Dance Behind the Pink Door. Dancer/choreographer Alice Gosti’s quarterly curated contemporary dance evening at the Pink Door is tonight. The line-up features work by Gosti herself, Morgan Nutt, Anh Nguyen, Rachel Randall, Maya Soto, Alix Isom, Rashelle McKee, Anh Nguyen, A K Mimi Allin, and Vanessa DeWolf. Admission’s free, but the show’s dinner theatre-style, so show up early to eat or just show up early to drink, because the place could be packed well before the 10:30 p.m. start.

ARC Dance’s Summer Dance at the Center. ARC Dance, a rather talented contemporary ballet company from up north, returns to Seattle Rep’s stage for “Summer Dance at the Center,” a mixed-repertoire evening of work from choreographers including Betsy Cooper, Penny Hutchinson (of Mark Morris Dance Group), Jason Ohlberg (of Chicago’s Hubbard Street Dance), and artistic director Marie Chong, among others. I saw last year’s performance and loved it, and there’s only two performances left tonight and tomorrow. (Tickets $15-$25)

Sounds Outside Festival. Wunderkind Beth Fleenor–a young woman as adept at promoting avant-garde music as she is she is composing and performing it–is the organizing and driving force behind the fifth annual Sounds Outside Music Festival this Saturday at Cal Anderson Park (another lineup goes up next month). Sounds outside, though, features a fantastic lineup of talented contemporary jazz composers and musicians, making for an awesome afternoon of chilling in the park. Starting at one in the afternoon, for free, you can catch a line-up including Non Grata, Seattle Jazz Composers Ensemble, Zubatto Syndicate, Wayne Horvitz/Sonny Clark Memorial Sextet, and NYC’s Father Figures. The second half of the festival goes up in mid-August.