Dance

This weekend in the arts: Sofie Ramos at Bread and Salt; Armando de la Torre at Athenaeum Art Center; Mensah Bey at Bread and Salt; Jan Van Munster at Quint ONE; SPACE TIME and Project [BLANK]; The La Jolla Symphony and Chorus; Drowse and Neutral Shirt at Tower Bar; a City Heights graphic novel release and more.

San Diego native Jeremy McQueen's award-winning ballet company produces original works that center Black voices — but struggled to bring his ballets home. This week, the works will be performed here for the first time.

This weekend in the arts: "El Huracán" at Cygnet Theatre; Filipino American performance and art at New Americans Museum; "Electrification, Efficiency and Equity" at Art Produce; the San Diego Symphony's "Peltokoski, Thayer and Mozart" at California Center for the Arts Escondido and Southwestern College; "A Map Project" and "Excavation" at City College; Camarada at The Conrad; and "Lost in Translation" at the Central Library Art Gallery.

This weekend in the arts: Cecilia Wong Kaiser at BFree; Ana Carrete at Lang Books; Ephrat Asherie Dance at ArtPower; Tasha Smith Godinez album release; 'Into the Woods' at Ovation Theatre; Tom Driscoll at SIP; 'The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci' at The Old Globe and Lunar New Year events across the county.

This weekend in the arts: immersive music and art, contemporary dance for the Jewish holidays, museum staff get artsy, an M-Theory pop-up show, and the art of the sewing machine.

This weekend in the arts: Experimental electronic music at Bread and Salt; Shellie Zhang at ICA San Diego North; "Modern Women" at San Diego Museum of Art; the San Diego Symphony's "Noel Noel"; "The Nutcracker" in Balboa Park; and The New Pornographers at the Belly Up.

Here are a few highlights of performances and arts events to celebrate the winter holidays in San Diego, from Hanukkah art to reimagined Nutcrackers.

This weekend in the arts: Cog•nate Collective at ICA North; LITVAKdance's fall performances; Bocón Arts' "Mía'; the San Diego Symphony with Brahms, Liszt and Wagner; Iranian folk music at UC San Diego; 'As You Like It" at La Jolla Playhouse and more.

This weekend in the arts: "Pop Smoke" at OMA; "Balanchine to Martins," Cate Kennan at the Brown Building; "The Nutcracker" previews; "Hamilton"; plus Barrio Art Crawl and Marisol Rendón at Bread and Salt.

This weekend in the arts: San Diego Opera's "El último sueño de Frida y Diego"; "Up Close and Personal" at San Diego Dance Theater; Bread and Puppet Theater comes to North Park; "Portraits from the Anthropocene at WE Gallery"; Roberto Salas at Bonita Museum and the "Welcome tu Las Californias" music festival in Baja.