Ten choreographers. A new dance every fifteen minutes. A very small stage. In a bar.

It’s called Ten Tiny Dances. It started years ago in a town called Portland with a man named Mike Barber. Now Barber and Crispin Spaeth (recently of Dark Room at Western Bridge) co-curate and perform Ten Tiny Dances both here and there. The Seattle iteration will go down this Saturday and Sunday at the Capitol Hill Arts Center.

Past participants include Crispin Spaeth, Sarah Rudinoff, Juliet Waller Pruzan & Stephen Hando, Amy O’Neal & locust, Monster Squad, and others.

It’s a nice way to get your modern dance on without feeling like you’re being held hostage—the pieces are short, there is booze, and you can come and go as you please.

(Now please enjoy today’s best headline: Magician ‘told to shut up about death’. I didn’t link to the story because it’s so sad, it takes all the fun out of the title. Don’t read it.)