The Weekend Tip: 'The Box That Rocks'

1. Artists working across a variety of mediums mark , a TV program created at a time when MTV largely ignored groundbreaking hip-hop coming out of inner-city neighborhoods like Fort Greene. , 80 Hanson Place. Opening Night Sat., 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Show runs March 10-May 28. $5.

2. at this open class with Batsheva Dance Company dancers. No experience necessary. Brooklyn Academy of Music, 30 Lafayette Ave. Sat., Noon. $20.

3. —a terrifying, delirious exercise in exploitation, the avant-garde, and camp hysteria. BAM Rose Cinemas, 30 Lafayette Ave. Sat. and Sun. 4 p.m., 6:50 p.m., 9:30 p.m. $12.

4. Moderated by playwright Erin Courtney, in New York's downtown experimental theater scene. Brooklyn Museum, 200 Eastern Pkwy. Sun., 11 a.m. Free.

5. Alternate side parking rules are in effect.