Hip-hop dance gets mashed up with multimedia art in Intermedia Arts' latest showcase. Curated by local dancer, choreographer and teacher Amy Sackett, it's a sibling of sorts to the female-centric hip-hop festival B-Girl Be. Regular B-Girl Be dancers Lisa Berman, Aneka McMullen and Leah Nelson plus spoken word artist Desdamona will perform along with more than a dozen others. The most obvious distinction from B-Girl Be has to be the inclusion of male dancers, such as Bryce Davidson and Michael Sodergren. Expect a diverse range of performances, innovative choreography and plenty of you-go-girl (or -boy) positive energy. --Jahna Peloquin

Everything about Jeselnik disarms you. His youthful good looks combined with an early gig writing on "Late Night With Jimmy Fallon" suggest a blasé comedy act, something safe. In reality, few contemporary standups get as pitch-black as Jeselnik. The darkest topics -- think rape, suicide -- are cockily lampooned in breezy one-liner fashion. He's starting to get noticed, too: Jeselnik has scored a Comedy Central special, released a critically lauded debut CD (last year's "Shakespeare") and roasted Donald Trump. The 32-year-old is currently working on his own Comedy Central show, so expect even more big things. --Jay Boller

Congolese choreographer Faustin Linyekula last visited Minneapolis four years ago with the bold "Festival of Lies." His latest work "more more more ... future" draws upon the powerful words of political prisoner Antoine Vumilia Muhindo plus the driving pulse of ndombolo (a hot blend of rumba, traditional rhythms, church fanfares and funk) to mine hope from a place where it is often in short supply. Kinshasa's electric guitar legend Flamme Kapaya (touring this country for the first time) and a five-member band propel Linyekula's Studios Kabako dancers through all the rage and passion fueling Muhindo's poetic statements of resistance. --Caroline Palmer