Dance, dance, dance

Decisions, decisions. Dance events abound today through Sunday at the Kennedy Center, Maryland Hall for the Creative Arts and Howard Community College. The Kennedy Center is hopping tonight and tomorrow at 7: 30 p.m., Saturday at 1: 30 p.m. and 7: 30 p.m. and Sunday at 1: 30 p.m., as dancers of ballerina Suzanne Farrell perform works of George Balanchine, Jerome Robbins and Maurice Bejart in "Suzanne Farrell Stages the Masters of 20th Century Ballet" at the Terrace Theater, off Virginia and New Hampshire avenues N.W., Washington. $25. Show may be sold out. Call 800-444-1324. Also at the Kennedy Center, tonight through Saturday at 7: 30 p.m., Martha Clarke's "Vers la flamme," a dance-theater piece based on short stories of Anton Chekhov and danced to the music of Scriabin and Rachmaninoff, is performed at the Eisenhower Theater. $22-$35. Call 800-444-1324.

The Ballet Theatre of Annapolis opens its 19th season at the Maryland Hall for the Creative Arts, 801 Chase St., Annapolis, tomorrow and Saturday at 8 p.m. with "Grand Pas de Deux" from the second act of "Don Quixote" and the modern dance program "Ellington Suite." $22; $12 children. Call 410-263-2909. (See Best Bets, Page 19.) Kinetics Dance Theatre opens its 15th year Sunday at 7 p.m. at Howard Community College, Smith Theatre, 10901 Little Patuxent Parkway, Columbia, with "Celebrates 15," which features premieres of two works, one choreographed by company director Priscilla Kaufhold and the other by Amy Eisenhower and Jef Kaufhold. $10; $5 students. Call 410-480-1686.