5 things to do this weekend, including a dance performance and an adaption of the 'The Cherry Orchard'

October has come and gone. I had so much fun last weekend seeing everyone dressed up and celebrating Halloween. The best costumes I saw were worn by two little dogs and their owner. They dressed up as insects–a bumble bee, a butterfly and a ladybug. The holiday celebrations may be over, but not to worry. The arts scene in Boston is offering up some other sweet treats. This weekend, you can catch a modern adaption of the classic Russian play “The Cherry Orchard,” watch Grammy-award-winning singer Dee Dee Bridgewater perform and see an inclusive dance performance from Abilities Dance Boston. But that’s not all. See the rest of our recommendations below.

Two-time Grammy-winning singer-songwriter and Tony-winning actress Dee Dee Bridgewater will perform for Berklee’s Signature Series. Throughout the evening, Bridgewater will lead student musicians who were chosen and rehearsed by Shirazette Tinnin, a faculty member of the percussion department and a member of Dee Dee Bridgewater’s professional band. The show is a tribute to jazz pianist, composer and bandleader Horace Silver, a leading pioneer of hard-bop jazz. The student ensemble will perform Silver’s compositions “Nica’s Dream,” “Permit Me to Introduce You to Yourself” and more.

Abilities Dance Boston is a company that uses dance as a tool for intersectional disability rights in Greater Boston. They have performed at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Peabody Essex Museum and the Contemporary Dance Festival Boston. This weekend, the company will present a new ballet production called “Inversion,” created by Andrew Choe and Ellice Patterson (one of the 2019 ARTery 25). In it, dancers will explore neurodivergence, race and more. Both performances will offer in-person and livestream tickets.

“The Cherry Orchard,” written in 1903 by Russian playwright Anton Chekhov, revolves around a family and their estate, which holds a cherry orchard about to be auctioned off to pay the mortgage. It’s a story about the socioeconomic state of Russia at the start of the 20th century. Jessica Hecht and Mikhail Baryshnikov will star in a reimagination of the classic play, conceived and directed by Igor Golyak of Needham’s Arlekin Players Theatre. The performance will be in person, but there will also be a unique, interactive version available online.

“It’s a practice that requires total body awareness,” said Victoria Lynn Awkward, one of WBUR’s The Makers, about her relationship to dance. This weekend, catch her choreography in a live performance by her dance company VLA DANCE at Hibernian Hall. The show is an exploration of excitement, joy and triumph. "ALIVE" will feature 11 dancers, including Olivia Moon, another one of WBUR’s Makers.

Known for her large wall drawings, Shelagh Keeley will present her work alongside items like tea bowls, woodblock-printed books and selected pages from the diary of famed zoologist, archaeologist and early museum director Edward Sylvester Morse. The exhibition's centerpiece is a 58-foot-long wall drawing based on Keeley’s research into the history of the Peabody Essex Museum.