A touring dance production hopes to help the 10,450 kids diagnosed with cancer every year, but the inspiration for the production is a single girl for whom the effort comes too late.

The Agassiz Baldwin Afterschool program’s Hip Hop Festival returns Thursday for its 19th February vacation.

The sixth annual “What the Dickens!” arrives Friday, Saturday and Sunday – an all-ages, untraditional “A Christmas Carol” that is old and successful enough to have traditions of its own.

The Luminarium Dance Company takes more creative leaps around and forward with its production “The Sleeprunner,” opening Friday at the Multicultural Arts Center.

It’s time for dance in the Art City August schedule, after the new arts organization put the focus on music in the first weekend and film last weekend.

The image of serene, balletic dance gets a dramatic remix in “I Am Here Now,” which uses video projections and laser writing to show our fractured, distracted lives.

Young performers take to the stage in synchronized struts, controlled slides and dizzying, gravity-defying flips Thursday at the 18th annual Agassiz Baldwin Hip-Hop Festival.

Now in Somerville after 37 years in Cambridge, the school is preparing for a March grand opening and, as of Feb. 17, launching classes with Rozann Kraus, founder of The Dance Complex.

In many communities, going to a high school arts production means hours of cringing through an awkward obligation. In Cambridge, the Dance/Works show is rightfully a hot ticket.

It happened: Cambridge lost the Deborah Mason School of Dance – to just over the border in Somerville near Porter Square.