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.