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DANCE
Nick Sowards
A performance of Paul Taylor's 'Esplanade' by Dancewave's Kids Company.
NEW WAVE A performing arts program for young people, Dancewave, presents new works by choreographers Stephanie Liapis, Adam Scher, and Kevin Joseph as part of its Demitasse Summer Cafe performance series. Ms. Liapis is a former member of Doug Varone and Dancers; Mr. Scher has collaborated with the Keigwin + Company dance ensemble and the Metropolitan Opera, and Mr. Joseph is the co-founder and principal dancer of the Creative Outlet Dance Theatre of Brooklyn. He performs with members of his company at Dancewave. After the performance, members of Dancewave's Kids Company, right, participate in a question-and-answer session with the choreographers. Wednesday, 6 p.m., Old First Reformed Church, 729 Carroll St. at Seventh Avenue, Park Slope, Brooklyn, 718-522-4696, free.
GALLERY-GOING
SOUTHERN SCENERY The Dillon Gallery concludes its summer group show this week. The exhibit includes works by the artists Makoto Fujimura, who uses gold and mineral pigments on paper to create gleaming abstract pieces; Jeanne Risica, who pours thick pools of paint onto canvas to form anatomical lines, and photographer Cedric Smith, who sets old photographs of black men, women, and children against imagery that connotes the American South, as in "Envy" (2006), above. Through Sunday, Tuesday–Saturday, 10 a.m.–6 p.m., Dillon Gallery, 555 W. 25th St., between Tenth and Eleventh avenues, 212-727-8585, free.
FILM
CRIMINAL MINDS Jean-Pierre Melville's film noir "Le Doulos" (1962) screens at Film Forum as part of the theater's French Crime Wave series. In the movie — whose title is a French slang term for an informant — an ex-convict recently released from prison, Maurice (Serge Reggiani), attempts a heist in a bid to repay his debts. When he divulges his plan to Silien (Jean-Paul Belmondo), a rumored police informant, it tests the bonds of friendship and loyalty. Today, 1:30, 5:35, and 10 p.m., series through Thursday, September 11, Film Forum, 209 W. Houston St., between Sixth Avenue and Varick Street, 212-727-8112, $11 general, $6 for members, seniors, and children.
NICHOLSON AT NIGHT The Brooklyn Bridge Park Conservancy concludes its Movies With a View series with a screening of Stanley Kubrick's "The Shining" (1980), the director's adaptation of Stephen King's horror novel of the same name. In it, writer Jack Torrance (Jack Nicholson) moves with his family to an isolated hotel for the winter. Snowbound and haunted by ghosts, Jack tries to murder his son and wife. Will Frears's short film "All Saints Day," about a man looking for his soul mate, is also screened. Thursday, 6 p.m., Empire-Fulton Ferry State Park (adjacent to Brooklyn Bridge Park), lawn, between Main and Plymouth streets, DUMBO, Brooklyn, 718-802-0603, free.
MUSIC
ALL THE WAY Jazz vocalist Cynthia Holiday joins the 16-piece Harlem Renaissance Orchestra for an open-air performance of the ensemble's signature big-band swing, as part of the Jazzmobile Summer Festival. Today, 7 p.m., 106th Street at Duke Ellington Boulevard, between Central Park West and Manhattan Avenue, 212-866-4900, free.
TALKS
POP-UP HOUSE Designers Douglas Gauthier (Gauthier Architects) and Jeremy Edmiston (SYSTEMarchitects) discuss their collaboration "Burst*008" (2008), a full-scale prefabricated house on view as part of the "Home Delivery" exhibit at the Museum of Modern Art. Meet in the museum's first-floor garden lobby; advance purchase is recommended and does not require museum admission. Today, 3:30 p.m., MoMA, 11 W. 53rd St., between Fifth and Sixth avenues, 212-708-9847, $5 general, $3 for students and seniors.
ROMANCE LANGUAGE Domnica Radulescu's debut novel, "Train to Trieste" (Knopf), tells the story of Mona, a lovestruck 17-year-old who flees to America to escape life under Romanian ruler Nicolae Ceausescu. Mona returns years later in search of her lost love. The Romanian-born Ms. Radulescu joins her editor at Knopf, Robin Desser, to talk about how the author's own immigration to America inspired the novel. Today, 7 p.m., McNally Jackson, 52 Prince St., between Lafayette and Mulberry streets, 212-274-1160, free.
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