CROSSING OVER Featured in The Brooklyn Museum's BEAT Festival, 9/12

The Brooklyn Museum is once again the epicenter of this exuberant festival, which inserts dance, theater and music into alternative spaces throughout the borough, including a farmer's market in East New York and Greenwood Cemetery in Sunset Park. For the opening night, visitors are free to roam the museum after hours, as all of the festival's artists - such as members of the street dance crew Bed-Stuy Veterans - perform in the galleries. The dancers Kyla Ernst-Alper and Maxx Passion lead the interactive project "#TweetDance," using audience tweets as inspiration for one-minute dances. Various locations, 347-762-3281, beatbrooklyn.com; free to $35; $60 for festival pass.

Crossing Over is a nighttime tour of Green-Wood Cemetery featuring four site-specific dance performances, each uniquely created by a distinctive Brooklyn-based choreographer to celebrate the now, with history and place as the stunning backdrop. These dramatic performances will coincide with a journey though Green-Wood led by Atlas Obscura, tour-guide to the world's most wondrous places. The expedition and performances will highlight tombs from New York's remarkable performing arts history, and conclude within the cemetery's hallowed catacombs.

Each Crossing Over tour lasts approximately 2 hours and may be hilly and strenuous; wear comfortable shoes. Also, these performances are rain or shine.

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