DANCE
If you want an up-close-and-personal look at the dancers of Boston Ballet, you'd do well to check out "Raw Dance," a popular event that gives those dancers, and their counterparts in the Boston Ballet II farm team, a chance to choreograph for one another -- and provides audiences a more intimate than usual glimpse of their talents. Performances are tonight through Saturday at 8 at the Boston Center for the Arts' Cyclorama, 539 Tremont Street in the South End. Tickets are $18 in advance, $20 at the door; call (617) 426-2787.

Over at the Cambridge Multicultural Arts Center, meanwhile, the Rebecca Rice Dance Company teams up with acclaimed photographer and Burberry designer Martin Cooper for a collaboration entitled The Altis Vignettes, in which Rice's company, outfitted in costumes designed by Cooper, provides a series of "short movement studies" to accompany his photo exhibit depicting "a mythological fantasy where women, defying the law, participated in the Olympic Games in ancient Greece." Performances are tonight through Saturday at 8 at the CMAC, 41 Second Street. Tickets are $20; call (617) 577-1400.