When Merce Cunningham’s dance company performed the choreographer’s magnum opus in a Minnesota quarry in 2008, filmmaker Charles Atlas was there. His Ocean, which captures the Walker co-production in vivid detail, screens this week as part of the Whitney Biennial.

Bill T. Jones says he’s directing and choreographing a Broadway musical based on the blaxploitation film Super Fly. It’s “quite a new take on” the 1972 movie, he says, adding that it’s “very much made for our Occupy Wall Street era.”

Newly published research finds that spectators watching ballet performances “showed muscle-specific responses in their brain as if they were expert dancers—even though ‘they were clearly not capable of doing the actual movements.’”

Tate’s live “performance room”— works performed in real time on YouTube—launches Thursday with a 1997 piece by choreographer Jérôme Bel. Future participants: Pablo Bronstein, Harrell Fletcher, Joan Jonas, and Emily Roysdon.

Unlike Naked, presented in the Walker galleries in 2010, Eiko and Koma’s Fragile will be performed to a live soundtrack by Kronos Quartet at San Francisco’s Yerba Buena Center for the Arts this weekend.

“If we compartmentalize the environmental question, the whole earth burns, so we might as well get everybody in any way that we can,” says Marc Bamuthi Joseph, whose new Walker-commissioned performance examines issues of environmental justice. red, black & GREEN: a blues uses hip-hop, spoken word, and audience participation to expand the discussion about how to define that “environmental question.”