DANCE

SECRET GARDEN “Twilight in the Garden of Hope,” a performance and reception in celebration of movement and dance in the Hamptons, includes a program by dance troupe Jennifer Muller/The Works. The show is presented by the artistic director of the company, Ms. Muller, Guild Hall, and Rebecca Cooper/The Gallery Sag Harbor. Among the selected pieces is “Island” (2005), inspired by Roberto Dutesco’s photographs of wild horses on Sable Island, the small Canadian island southeast of Nova Scotia. It features an original score by Marty Beller, a drummer for the band They Might Be Giants. A newly choreographed piece, “Edge” (2007), explores the nature of fear. It is set to the music of Zap Mama. Members of the Works are in attendance during a VIP reception that follows the performance. VIP reception guests are also invited to a cocktail toast preceding the show, at 4:30 p.m. Saturday, 5 p.m.(raindateisSunday,5p.m.), estate of Rory Riggs, 46 Further Lane, East Hampton, $30 (performance), $100 (performance and reception), 631-324-4050. For complete information, go to guildhall.org.

FAMILY

CLASS TRIP “The Magic School Bus” is featured as part of the “Word for Word Kids” series presented at Bryant Park, in conjunction with the Scholastic Store. Ms. Frizzle is on hand to greet visitors and entertain with tales of her adventures. The children’s book series was written by author Joanna Cole between 1986 and 2001 to impart scientific concepts to young minds. In the books, a teacher, Ms. Frizzle, and her class board a school bus endowed with special properties. The bus transports them on field trips to such unlikely destinations as outer space, the area beneath the earth, and the human body. Saturday, noon–1 p.m., Bryant Park Reading Room, 42nd Street, between Fifth and Sixth avenues, rain venue: Barnes & Noble, 555 Fifth Ave. at 46th Street, free.

FILM

BAD AND BEAUTIFUL Best known for musical films such as “Meet Me in St. Louis” and “An American in Paris,” Vincente Minnelli was also at home producing heart-wrenching melodramas that still maintained moments of classiness. Anthology Film Archives celebrates Minnelli’s melodramatic work with a four-day series. The showcase begins with “The Bad and the Beautiful” (1952), about the ruthless rise of an aggressive Hollywood producer, played by Kirk Douglas. Tonight, 7 p.m., Friday, 9:15 p.m., Sunday, 4 p.m., Anthology Film Archives, 32 Second Ave. at 2nd Street, 212-505-5181, $8 general, $6 students and seniors, $5 members.

HEARTBREAK HOTEL The Museum of the Moving Image presents a screening of Neil Simon’s “The Heartbreak Kid” (1972), an acerbic variation on Mike Nichols’s “The Graduate.” In it, a New York couple on their honeymoon in Miami discovers each other’s quirks and grows to dislike the other, before the husband falls for an attractive blonde. The film, directed by Elaine May, is presented as part of the museum’s “Uneasy Riders: American Film in the Nixon Years, 1970–1974,” a series that highlights rarely seen gems produced by the film industry during a period marked by the unrest of the Vietnam War. Featured actors include Cybill Shepherd and Charles Grodin. Saturday, 3 p.m., through Sunday, September 2, dates and times vary, Museum of the Moving Image, 35th Avenue at 36th Street, Astoria, Queens, 718-784-0077, $10 general, $7.50 students and seniors, $5 children under age 18, free for members. For complete information, go to movingimage.us.

LOVE, PERHAPS BAMcinématek and the Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office present “The New Decade: Hong Kong Film.” The celebration of films produced since China assumed political control of the country includes Law Wing-Cheong’s “2 Become 1” (2006), a romantic comedy about a woman who discovers she has breast cancer. Tonight, 4:30, 6:50, and 9:15p.m., through Sunday, August 26, times vary, BAM, 30 Lafayette Ave., between St. Felix Street and Ashland Place, 718-636-4100, $7.50 general, $7 members.

FILM & PHOTOGRAPHY

“Spaces to See, Stories to Tell,” an exhibit by Babette Mangolte, charts her aesthetic trajectory. Works include jarring photographs of her loft in TriBeCa, film stills from her experimental shorts, and a view of Canal Street from hermontage” Composite Buildings” (1978), above. Through Sunday, September, 2, Wednesday–Friday, 2–6 p.m., Broadway 1602, 1182 Broadway, between 28th and 29th streets, 212-481-0362, free.

MUSIC

ROOTS OF ROCK Lincoln Center Out of Doors hosts its annual “Roots of American Music” program, a performance series showcasing the best in blues, gospel, and folk music. Among the featured performers are the Dixie Hummingbirds, the Claire Lynch Band, Ricky Skaggs and Kentucky Thunder, and musicians Andy Statman and Tom Paxton, who celebrates his 70th birthday and a career of crafting protest music. The mini-festival features 16 performances over two days. Selected highlights include a unique collaboration presented by Mr. Statman, a klezmer virtuoso, and a bluegrass giant, Mr. Skaggs. Saturday and Sunday, 1 p.m., Lincoln Center, South Plaza and Damrosch Park Bandshell, Southwest corner of Lincoln Center Plaza, between 62nd Street and Amsterdam Avenue, 212-875-5456, free. For complete information, go to lincolncenter.org.

NATIONAL TREASURE The National’s most recent album of dark, dramatic indie pop, “Boxer,” has helped this New York band to gain wider exposurebeyondtheir home bases in Brooklyn and Cincinnati. The group recently finished a tour during which they opened for the Arcade Fire. Band members include lead singer Matt Beminger. The National performs this weekend as part of the River to River Festival, with bands Takka Takka and the Forms. Friday, 7p.m., South StreetSeaport, Pier17, FDR Drive at Fulton Street, 212-732-7328, free.

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