ART

SPEAKING IN FIGURES “Body Beware: 18 American Artists” features paintings and sculptures that each present an individual view on anatomy or human interaction. Artists include Pavel Tchelitchew, Walt Kuhn, Romare Bearden, and Federico Castellon. Selected works include a painting by the artist known as Jess, “Crossing and Recrossing the Heart: Translation #28” (1975), left, and Beauford Delaney’s “Makonde Figure” (1952), right. Through Friday, July 27, Tuesday–Saturday, 10 a.m.–6 p.m., Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, 24 W. 57th St., between Fifth and Sixth avenues, 212-247-0082, free.

DANCE

BUDDING BALLERINAS The School of American Ballet presents its 43rd annual Workshop Performances, featuring two Balanchine ballets, “The Four Temperaments” and the “Gounod Symphony.” The program director of SAB and the New York City Ballet, Peter Martins, also contributes his “Les Gentilhommes” to the program. Young dancers trained at SAB regularly fill the ranks of the NYCB. The workshop performances give balletomanes a chance to see the advanced students of SAB onstage before they strike out to dance professionally. Saturday, 2 and 8 p.m., Monday, 7 p.m., Lincoln Center, Peter Jay Sharp Theater, 155 W. 65th St. at Broadway, between Columbus and Amsterdam avenues, 212-769-6600, $40 for Saturday’s performance, $70 for Monday’s benefit performance.

FILM

LOCAL FLAVOR “L.I.C., NYC,” at the Socrates Sculpture Park, is an exhibit of works by artists working in Long Island City. The exhibit features a three-park screening supplement: The second installment of these screenings happens tonight, featuring films by eight local artists. Kate Gilmore films herself getting in and out of physically demanding situations and Karsten Krejcarek and Matthew Ronay depict themselves in short comedic situations. Tonight, 7 p.m., Socrates Sculpture Park, 32-01 Vernon Boulevard at Broadway, Queens, 718-956-1819, free.

MUSIC

OMAHA’S FINEST The Bowery hosts three shows by the indie-rock band Bright Eyes, who are accompanied each night by a rotating lineup of guest performers. Band members include lead singer and guitarist Conor Oberst and multi-instrumentalist Mike Mogis. Mr. Oberst has been hailed as a wunderkind in praise of his gift for songwriting and ornate orchestration. Bright Eyes performs selections from its recent album releases, including “Cassadaga” and “I’m Wide Awake, It’s Morning.” Among the featured guests is an alternative-country singer, Gillian Welch. Tonight, tomorrow, and Friday, 8 p.m., Town Hall, 123 W. 43rd St., between Sixth Avenue and Broadway, 212-840-2824, $28.50–$33.50.

A ROMANTIC GOODBYE Conductor Lorin Maazel leads the New York Philharmonic in “Brahms the Romantic: A Philharmonic Festival,” a performance of the composer’s third and fourth symphonies. Symphony No. 4 is Brahms’s farewell to the genre. Although he was a romantic at heart, he chose the classical modes of expression for this masterwork, referencing Bach and beyond in employing such elements as counterpoint and the Baroque passacaglia form, a musical fragment that repeats throughout the piece. Preconcert talks led by the orchestra’s Leonard Bernstein Scholar-in-Residence, Charles Zachary Bornstein, precede the shows at 6:30 p.m. tomorrow, and 10 a.m. on Friday. Tomorrow, 7:30 p.m., Friday, 11:00 a.m., New York Philharmonic, Avery Fisher Hall, 10 Lincoln Center Plaza, Broadway and 65th Street, 212-875-5900, $29–$84, $5 pre-concert talks.

TIBETAN CHANT The Rubin Museum of Art and the Harmonic Presence Foundation presents “Resonance and Radiance: Sacred Music, Sacred Mind,” a concert given by the Nepal-based Nagi Gompa Nuns. The nuns perform sacred chant and music from the Chöd tradition, which was founded by the 11th-century Tibetan female saint and Tantric practitioner Machik Lapdron. Friday, 7 p.m., Rubin Museum, 150 W. 17th St, between Sixth and Seventh avenues, 212-620-5000, $25.

POETRY

HONORING A LOCAL Jerome Badanes, born and raised in Brooklyn, was a professor at Vassar College and was a novelist, poet, and screenwriter at the time of his death in 1995 at the age of 58. KGB Bar presents a reading from his posthumous collection of verse, “Long Live a Hunger To Feed Each Other” (Open City Books). Readers include Gerald Stern, Thomas Beller, Helen Schulman, Nancy Willard, Eric Lindbloom, and others. Tonight, 7 p.m., KGB Bar, 85 E. 4th St. at Second Avenue, 212-625-9048, free.

READINGS

ROCKING WRITERS The Carlton on Madison Avenue hosts a celebrity book signing to raise funds for the nonprofit organization 826NYC, which helps students develop creative and expository writing skills, and teachers inspire their students to write. The event is presented in conjunction with a performance by the Rock Bottom Remainders, a charity rock band featuring some of America’s most well-known writers. Featured authors during the book signing include Amy Tan, Dave Barry, Ridley Pearson, and Scott Turow. Tomorrow, 11 a.m., the Carlton on Madison, 88 Madison Ave., between 28th and 29th streets, 212-532-4100, free.

SOIRÉES

HELPING LITTLE ONES The Children’s Health Fund, co-founded by singer-songwriter Paul Simon and pediatrician Irwin Redlener, offers 21 programs that provide pediatric primary care and mental health services to homeless and uninsured children. The fund celebrates its 20th anniversary with a dinner reception and a performance by salsa and pop star Marc Anthony, with a special appearance by his wife, Jennifer Lopez. The chairman and chief executive officer of Wyeth Laboratories, Robert Essner, and the executive chairman of the Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company, Christian Haub, are honored. Tonight, 6:30 p.m., Hilton New York, 1335 Sixth Ave. at 54th Street, 212-997-0100 ext. 234, $1,000 and up.

TALKS

NEW LOOK AT ANCIENT SCROLLS New York University’s Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies hosts “The Dead Sea Scrolls: A New Perspective,” featuring presentations by four scholars. A professor at Yeshiva University, Moshe Bernstein, discusses “Rewriting the Bible: Two Views From Qumran”; a professor from the University of Notre Dame, James Vanderkim, speaks on “Intramural Calendar Conflicts”; another professor from Notre Dame, Gary Anderson, presents “Forgive Us Our Debts: The Lord’s Prayer in Light of Qumran,” and a professor at NYU, Lawrence Schiffman, discusses “Modifications of Biblical Law in the Temple Scroll.” A third professor from Notre Dame, John Meier, is moderator of the roundtable. Today, 4 p.m., NYU, 100 Washington Square East at Washington Place, 212-998-8981, free, reservations required.

FIGHTING WORDS The College of Arms Foundation is a nonprofit group that sponsors the study of heraldry, including royal symbols, armor, and weaponry. The Foundation, along with the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society, presents “Haitian Heraldry and the Armorial of Haiti,” a talk on noble coats of arms in the early 19th-century kingdom of Haiti. The discussion is presented by author Clive Cheesman, who recently published “The Armorial of Haiti: Symbols of Nobility in the Reign of Henry Christophe” (College of Arms). Tonight, 6 p.m., New York Genealogical and Biographical Society, 122 E. 58th St., between Third and Park avenues, 212-873-6715 , free, reservations required.

ISSUES IN ISRAEL AND ELSEWHERE Politician Natan Sharansky is considered to be a crucial figure to the demise of the Soviet Union in the 1990s. In the talk “Past, Present, and Future,” he discusses the impact of the Six-Day War on the dissident movement in Russia, and speaks about pressing issues on the state of Jewish identity and the role of democracy in Israel. Tonight, 8 p.m., 92nd Street Y, 1395 Lexington Ave. at 92nd Street, 212-415-5500, $25.

THEATER

A VOICE ON A SHOULDER Norman Beim’s “Fritz and Froyim,” directed by John Cooper, is a comedic musical about Fritz, a former Nazi trooper, who is haunted by Froyim, the ghost of a Jewish comedian, in Germany at the end of World War II. Fritz struggles to shed himself of the ghost through ventriloquism, tap dancing, exorcism, and show tunes. Tonight through Saturday, June 16, Wednesday–Friday, 8 p.m., Saturday, 3 and 8 p.m., Monday, 7 p.m., Turtle Shell Theater, 300 W. 43rd St. at Eighth Avenue, 212-868-4444, $18 general, $12 students and seniors.

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