Arts: Best Bets

SPRINgtime just makes you want to dance, and the Baton Rouge Ballet Theatre is celebrating with a mixed bill of modern and traditional dance. The city’s nationally accredited company will perform new modern works by guest choreographers as well as Act III from The Sleeping Beauty. The event is slated for March 14, 7:30 p.m., at the River Center Theatre for the Performing Arts. Also, the Ballet Theatre hosts its fourth annual “Dancin’ in the Streets” fundraiser at Perkins Rowe, featuring music by Phat Hat Band, March 23 starting at 7 p.m. batonrougeballet.org

MARCH 8-24

Baton Rouge Little Theater offers a production of the witty 1940s Hollywood whodunit/musical City of Angels. brlt.org

MARCH 21

The Baton Rouge Symphony Orchestra presents a concert as part of its Masterworks series, with guest pianist Christopher O’Riley. brso.org

ENDING MARCH 31

The Louisiana’s Artist: Clementine Hunter exhibit finishes its run at LSU’s Museum of Art at the Shaw Center. Also, there isn’t much time left to see Gabriel Dawe’s eye-popping site-specific work of colorful thread, Cascade of Color, which will get taken down at the museum April 7. lsumoa.com

ONGOING THIS MONTH

Louisiana Art & Science Museum has two great exhibits: Gloriously Colorful Kodaks, showcasing Kodak’s line of Art Deco-style cameras from the ’30s and ’40s, and The Edge of Vision, which looks at abstract photography by 20 international artists. lasm.org