8 pm: Dance

Almost exactly a year after being stuck in an excruciatingly pointless dance number on the Academy Awards telecast, 26-year-old tap dance phenomenon Savion Glover returns in triumph to the Southland with “Foot Notes--The Concert.” A 1996 Tony winner for his choreography in the groundbreaking musical “Bring In ‘Da Noise, Bring In ‘Da Funk,” Glover will present a four-generation spectrum of tap that places his hard-hitting style alongside the dancing of such veterans and pioneers as Jimmy Slyde, Buster Brown and Dianne Walker. There’s also a glimpse of the future in the form of 10-year-old tap prodigy Cartier A. Williams, a.k.a. “the Big Coop.”

* Savion Glover in “Foot Notes--The Concert,” Wilshire Theatre, 8440 Wilshire Blvd., Beverly Hills, 8 p.m. Also Friday, 8 p.m.; Saturday, 2 and 8 p.m.; Sunday, 3 p.m. $15 (students) to $57. (213) 365-3500.

8 pm: Theater

New York’s avant-garde theater Mabou Mines dramatizes women’s voices, past and present, in the West Coast premiere of its bilingual production, “Las Horas de Belen--A Book of Hours,” based on the history of Mexico’s notorious Belen prison. The collaborative work is sung in Spanish with text projections in English.

* “Las Horas de Belen--A Book of Hours,” Center for the Performing Arts, Cal State Northridge, Lot C at Plummer and Zelzah streets, Northridge. Today and Friday, 8 p.m. $15 to $25. (818) 677-2488

7:30 pm: Theater

“Mizlansky/Zilinsky,” Jon Robin Baitz’s comic, slightly dark valentine to Hollywood of the early 1980s, follows two marginal film producers (played by Michael Lerner and David Groh) and their bid to make one last great show-biz deal.

* “Mizlansky/Zilinsky,” Geffen Playhouse, 10886 Le Conte Ave., Westwood. Tuesdays-Thursdays, 7:30 p.m.; Fridays, 8 p.m.; Saturdays, 4 and 8:30 p.m.; Sundays, 2 and 7 p.m. Also April 12, 2 p.m. Ends April 23. $20 to $42; April 12 matinee, mezzanine seats, $25. (310) 208-5454; (213) 365-3500.

7:45 pm: Dance

After saturation screenings on PBS, the ballroom-oriented dance revue “Burn the Floor” launches in America by placing its 44 world-champion dancers from 15 countries on the stage of the Universal Amphitheatre. Directed and choreographed by Anthony Van Laast, the show evolved from a presentation nearly three years ago at Elton John’s 50th birthday party. It explores 10 standard and Latin idioms, plus street and industrial dance, offering everything from a large-scale Fred Astaire-Ginger Rogers medley dripping with white feathers to rock duets showing plenty of skin.

* “Burn the Floor,” Universal Amphitheatre, 100 Universal City Plaza, Universal City, 7:45 p.m. Also Friday, 8:15 p.m.; Saturday, 1:15 p.m. $33.50 to $75. (213) 480-3232.

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Freebie: Pre-auction viewing of Impressionist and contemporary paintings by Modigliani, Cezanne, Matisse, Picasso and many others will be on view today through Saturday at Sotheby’s, 9665 Wilshire Blvd., Beverly Hills. Thursday and Friday, 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.; Saturday, 12:30 to 4:30 p.m. (310) 274-0340.