This past Friday I had the great pleasure of attending Buttrock Suites, the modern-dance-set-to-a-buttrock-soundtrack juggernaut whose third installment—Buttrock Suites III: Sweetest—runs through the upcoming weekend at Velocity Dance Center (915 E Pine St.).

Over the past few years, BRS has earned plenty of good press and devotees, and now I’m one of them. Sure, the show’s built on a gimmick, but it’s a surprisingly rich and witty one, casting the heady aesthetic pleasures of modern dance/performance against the crude, fist-pumping pleasures of ’80s hard rock, with both dance and music made richer from the collision.

The first half of the show is jokier, with a number of choreographers taking buttrock as both subject and soundtrack: Left Field Dance’s quartet channels the communal lust of teenage hard-rock fandom, Drew Elliott’s and Lasara Jarvis’ duet makes literal a timeless Def Leppard command.

In the second half, things get more abstract and ambitious. Best in show: You, the vast Scorpions-themed, Berlin Wall-destroying extravaganza choreographed by Diana Cardiff, one of Buttrock Suites’ masterminds, and one of the night’s most magnetic dancers.

Throughout, there’s the music—Guns N’ Roses, Motley Crue, Aldo fucking Nova, all of whose sturdy, scream-filled 4/4 rock is built to elicit big, crude emotions and encourage big, crude movements. Experiencing such music in the context of modern dance is just ridiculously exciting, and you should see it while you can.

As I mentioned, Buttrock Suites 3: Sweetest continues through this weekend at Velocity, with shows Fri, Sat, and Sun. Call 206-722-0963 for tickets.