The performance piece in four short acts serves up a bawdy farce, spiked with moments of sharp wit and teasing sexuality. While the commonalities between sex and food are well-known (and sometimes well-worn), the players of Pones Inc. find fresh and fun ways to explore sex, food, interpersonal relationships and more.  

With a dinner party of four people, four food groups and four scenes of true stories relating to sexuality, the performance possibilities intrigue. Are they couples or friends or something else?  

Virginia Woolf's sweeping novel, 'Orlando,' has been referred to as the longest love letter in history. It's also the inspiration behind Jan Street Dance Theatre's 'Bibliography of Love,' a multi-faceted exploration of gender transformations of the past and present — of the Bloomsbury Group and of the quintet of performers.  

From the glut of reality shows and the Peoples’ Choice Awards to blogging and Twittering, now more than ever audience members feel entitled to voice their opinions.   

In true democratic fashion, Cincinnati Ballet season subscribers were invited to cast votes for their favorite works the Ballet has performed. This weekend, the Ballet concludes its 45th season with its Greatest Hits, a powerhouse, if mixed, assortment of dance delights taken from the most-requested audience picks. The show will be at the Aronoff Center May 8 and 9.  

Following last season's 'Baker's Dozen,' Cincinnati Ballet again presents a piece choreographed by Twyla Tharp and restaged by veteran Tharp company member Shelley Washington. This time it's 'Sinatra Suite' from 1984, a series of four duets and a solo set to well-known Sinatra standards. The program also features new works from the Ballet's Associate Artistic Director Devon Carney and New York City-based choreographer Jessica Lang alongside Balanchine's 'Tarantella.'  

Following last season's 'Baker's Dozen,' Cincinnati Ballet again presents a piece choreographed by Twyla Tharp and restaged by veteran Tharp company member Shelley Washington, 'Sinatra Suite.' The program is presented Friday-Saturday at the Aronoff Center.   

No matter what Exhale Dance Tribe presents you can count on seeing talented, spirited young women performing their hearts out. A single show Saturday night at 8 p.m. marks this lively, Jazz-flavored ensemble’s final appearance of the season, Collection Complete. This aptly titled production features a diverse-sounding mix of guest choreographers’ works in addition to the creative choreographic endeavors of the Tribe’s Broadway-alum co-founders, Missy Lay Zimmer and Andrew Hubbard. At the Anderson Center in Anderson.  

There are compelling reasons to see this season’s Winter Concert presented by CCM’s Dance Division: fresh, original works created by emerging choreographic voices of CCM’s dance majors and guest choreographer and Butoh artist Maureen Fleming’s group restaging of her seminal solo work “The Immortal Rose.” She’s recreated the ethereal, multi-media piece for nine dancers who trained intensively in Fleming’s own “Fleming Elastics” program and methodologies and renamed the thought-provoking adaptation “Dancing on Deathless Feet.” Saturday and Sunday in CCM's Patricia Corbett Theater.  

Literary arts often inspire dance, but in the case of When Winter Come, NKU Writer-in-Residence Frank X. Walker’s poetry comes to life in a very direct creative form: a “choreopoem.” The cast is comprised of dancers as well as actors from Northern Kentucky University’s Department of Theatre & Dance in a well-rounded fusion of poetry, theater, music and movement. Walker’s book of poetry chronicles the historic Lewis and Clark expedition as seen from the perspective of York, a slave on board. Thursday and Friday.