There are not enough hours in the day. Just. Not. Enough. If we weren't already going to the New Pornographers show tonight, we'd likely be found at the Ten Tiny Dances performance at CHAC (7:30pm, $15). If you haven't seen it before, the idea is there's a 4' x 4' platform that the dancers have to (more or less) stay on for their performance, like when we were kids and the floor was lava. Lava!......

This Friday and Saturday, Velocity Dance Center presents its Strictly Seattle series, with a who's who of Seattle choreographers: Pat Graney, Dayna Hanson, Keith Johnson, Pablo Cornejo, Aiko Kinoshita, and Crispin Spaeth. It may also star your neighbor -- the series is the result of a three-week course where participants study with up to seven different instructors, work with a choreographer to create a new piece and then perform it publicly. (Here's the relevant Flickr......

Celebrate Seattle Festival @ PNB Program A: Sunday 1pm; Program C: Sunday 7pm McCaw Hall, tickets $20-$80 Pacific Northwest Ballet's Celebrate Seattle Festival gave Artistic Director Peter Boal a chance to invite a number of companies to share the stage with PNB, and while it seemed like a nice gesture to invite Christopher Stowell's Oregon Ballet Theatre, it turned out to be a canny artistic one, too. "Adin," to music by Rachmaninoff, is both......

We're trying to think of what would be the best overall reason to catch Ten Tiny Dances at CHAC. Let's make a list. We can think of five reasons right off. Pick your favorite. 1) Element of surprise: laugh one moment, cry the next. 2) Dancers are hot. Some are very, very hot. 3) You can bring drinks from the lounge back to your seat. 4) There's a new dance every 15 minutes. 5)......

MUSIC: Ben Kweller's in town opening for Gomez at the Showbox, but the smart money is on going to see his in-store, since it's free. Go hear some great indie-pop to kick off your evening. 5:30pm // Capitol Hill Sonic Boom, 514 15th Ave E // FREE SPORTS/TV: If you're Seth, you're falling all over yourself with the King County 4A district playoffs. If you're anyone else, you're thinking tonight is a good night......

Saturday we went to see Ten Tiny Dances, co-curated by Seattle's Crispin Spaeth and Portland's Mike Barber. All the dances are made for a 4' x 4' plywood stage, and this year Barber had decided to tighten the constraints by insisting that the performers stay within a foot or so of the stage if they stepped off. The tenth anniversary version brought the choreography of Kristina Dillard/Big Red Dance, Zoe Scofield, Crispin Spaeth Dance......