Another jam-packed weekend is coming to Guild Hall, starting Friday at 8 p.m. with a performance by Parsons Dance. A contemporary American dance company known for its athletic ensemble work, it was founded in 1985 by David Parsons, its artistic director, and Howell Binkley, a Tony Award-winning lighting designer.
The troupe has performed at the Kennedy Center, the Sydney Opera House, Maison de la Danse in Lyon, France, and Teatro La Fenice in Venice. Parsons's awards include the American Choreography Award, the Dance Magazine Award, a Howard Gilman Fellowship, and the Dance Masters of America Annual Award, and he has collaborated with artists from other disciplines, among them Stephen Schwartz, Milton Nascimento, Donna Karan, Annie Leibovitz, and Alex Katz.
Tickets are $92 to $189 and selling briskly.
Julian Schnabel will return to Guild Hall with his new film, "In the Hand of Dante," on Saturday at 6 p.m. Adapted from Nick Tosches's novel of the same name, it stars Oscar Isaac, Gerard Butler, John Malkovich, Franco Nero, Gal Gadot, Martin Scorsese, and Jason Momoa and weaves together across centuries the lives of Dante Alighieri and a contemporary writer, both played by Isaac.
Schnabel will introduce the film. A handful of tickets remain at $35.
In a shift to art history, Guild Hall will welcome David Breslin, the Metropolitan Museum's curator in charge of modern and contemporary art, on Sunday morning at 11, to discuss "Krasner and Pollock: Past Continuous," an exhibition he co-curated that will open on Oct. 4. The show considers the parallel yet distinct breakthroughs that followed the artists' move in 1945 to Springs.
Both shared a long relationship with Guild Hall. In 1981 it presented "Krasner/Pollock: A Working Relationship," which was organized by Barbara Rose, a noted art historian, curator, and critic. Tickets are $35.
Third Thursdays, when Guild Hall is open until 8:30 p.m., features art and music. Next Thursday, Wood Dogg, featuring Woody Boley, will perform at 5:30 in the museum's garden in a series programmed by Carlos Lama. The band consists of Boley on vocals and guitar, Dean Frischer on guitar, Dylan Hewett on bass, and Scott Hewett on drums.
Afterward, visitors can take in a conversation in the galleries between Ross Bleckner and David Salle at 7:30. Moderated by Melanie Crader, Guild Hall's museum director and curator of visual arts, the discussion will focus on Bleckner's summer exhibition there, "Never the Less," which includes intimate studies dating from the 1980s and larger, more recent paintings. Bleckner and Salle first met in the early 1970s at the California Institute of the Arts before moving to New York and establishing themselves as influential painters.
Admission on Third Thursdays is $12.
