Agenda

Opening reception Fri., May 9, 6-8 p.m., runs through June 7, Steven Kasher Gallery, 521 W. 23rd St., second floor, New York, N.Y., 212-966-3978, stevenkasher.com Runs May 9-24, $15, Vanity House Theater, 4373 Main St., 610-955-9282, vanityhouse.org

Aunt Dracula went from playing odd, frightened psychedelic folk to creating an edgier, irked noise pop that comes across like Tom Zé fronting Can. Screw the qualifiers. It's all hip-hop, one and the same, and should all be treated equally. For the all-American closer of the New Philadelphia Classical Symphony season, director Karl Middleman has chosen music that represents a European style as filtered through the American experience.

Iolanta's simple message (belief in love conquers all impediments) needs nothing elaborate to be a moving musical experience. Meg Foley will inaugurate Moving Research with a new piece, slip, which will explore the concept of viewer perception. Hinton Battle, known as much as a performer as a dance-maker (he was in Dreamgirls) is choreographing a piece called Commitments.