Whether you missed this physically mesmerizing company of 11 lithe young women in Binocular in January at the Aronoff Center or just want to exhale the cold winter, take yourself to The Anderson Center Friday night for Exhale Dance Tribe's funny, sensual, explosive and sometimes serious 'Look Closer.' 8 p.m.  

Between them, they have worked with some of the most significant modern choreographers on the dance scene today and have performed in top-ranked companies. One is a former dancer with Dance Theatre of Harlem and the other grew up on a ranch two miles east of Boise, Idaho.  

Kellye A. Saunders and Matthew Prescott, and they’ll be performing for the second season as a duo in ballet tech cincinnati’s eighth Gala of International Dance Stars this weekend to choreography by Prescott and Thaddeus Davis. Between them, they have worked with some of the most significant modern choreographers on the dance scene today and have performed in top-ranked companies. One is a former dancer with Dance Theatre of Harlem and the other grew up on a ranch two miles east of Boise, Idaho. The two appear with 10 other dancers of world note in duets and solos at The Aronoff Center Saturday night.  

Choreographer, designer and photographer Jeanne S. Mam-Luft wears a lot of hats and has a lot of history. Born in a refugee camp and raised as an immigrant, she says, “I grew up questioning class, race, normalcy and cultural customs.” Yet in BLACK BOX, her newest performance work for MamLuft&Co.Dance this weekend, she confronts these perplexities with an abstract, non-narrative movement style. 8 p.m. Friday and 2 and 8 p.m. Saturday at the Aronoff Center’s Fifth Third Bank Theater.  

Small Streams-2, the newest offering from Cincinnati Choreographers’ Collective this weekend at Contemporary Dance Theater’s College Hill Dance Hall, features the diverse work of eight highly regarded choreographers in two full-length evening performances.  

Small Streams-2, the newest offering from Cincinnati Choreographers’ Collective this weekend at Contemporary Dance Theater’s College Hill Dance Hall, features the diverse work of eight highly regarded choreographers in two full-length evening performances. 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday.  

If you dig modern dance, don't miss Contemporary Dance Theater's 2008 Choreographers Festival. Thirteen impressive choreographers -- all with local links -- are set to show works with a rich varie  

Fiendish fouettés. Double cabrioles. Stratospheric grand jetés. All the pyrotechnics that burn brightest at ballet galas are scheduled to return to the Aronoff Center during the sixth a  

For 13 years, adventurous choreographers and dancers have gathered fruitfully under the umbrella of Choreographers Without Companies, an intriguing season-closing round-up of engaging modern dance  

Face it: The world of modern dance is, like it or not, pretty esoteric to most. But sometimes when its subject matter interfaces with the grit of the real world, it couldn't seem more timely. Th