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Photography

Louis Faurer, who died last year at the age of 84, was considered a seminal member of the New York School of postwar photography. His gritty images of New York City often focused on ordinary people, and combined documentary impulse with fine art. A traveling retrospective opening today at the Museum of Photographic Arts in San Diego highlights his work through 137 photographs taken between the 1930s and 1960s.

Dance

Some of our most daring dance-makers collaborate with video artists in “Caught Between: Dancing for Camera and Live Audience” on Saturday and next Sunday at the Ivar Theatre in Hollywood. Participating choreographers include Stephanie Gilliland, Rosanna Gamson, Kitty McNamee, Jamie Nichols, Lauren Winslow-Kearns, Nina Kaufman, Alex Magno, Nina Winthrop and Deborah Brockus, the producer of this unusual multidisciplinary event.

Jazz

Ever since Diana Krall, below, scored two million-selling CDs, record companies have been tripping over themselves promoting female jazz singers--newcomers such as Jane Monheit, Norah Jones, Rene Marie, Lizz Wright and Paula West, to name a few, in addition to veterans Dianne Reeves, Cassandra Wilson, Karrin Allyson and Nnenna Freelon. Southland jazz fans can appreciate what all the fuss is about when Krall performs Saturday at the Santa Barbara Bowl.

Music

It’s a big chamber music week at the John Anson Ford Amphitheatre in Hollywood. On Monday night, Esa-Pekka Salonen brings an ensemble from SummerFest La Jolla 2002 to repeat a Salonen-Stravinsky program. On Wednesday, the New Hollywood String Quartet plays music by Mendelssohn and Ravel, and two world premieres by film composers Don Davis and Randy Kerber. And Friday, the Ahn Trio performs the U.S. premiere of Maurice Jarre’s “Engadiner Suite,” recent works by Michael Nyman and Kenji Bunch, as well as familiar pieces by Satie and Haydn.

Theater

The Mark Taper Forum’s Other Voices Project will present a free day of panels and performances featuring artists, scholars and activists from the disability and deaf theater communities at the El Portal Center in North Hollywood on Saturday. “Chautauqua 2002--The Theatrical Landscape of Disability and Deafness: Future, Past and Present” will include excerpts from classic and contemporary plays with disabled characters. There will also be a staged reading of “Evolution Piques,” a new play by Elena Minor.

Pop Music

Two of pop’s high-profile bare-knuckle combatants find their orbits bringing them into close proximity this week. Moby’s Area2 tour, also featuring David Bowie, Busta Rhymes, Blue Man Group and a pack of DJs, touches down Tuesday at Verizon Wireless Amphitheater in Irvine. Meanwhile, Eminem, above, who recently took some criticism from Moby and fired back with some disses on his new album, stomps through with Papa Roach, Ludacris, Xzibit and X-ecutioners on the Anger Management Tour, Thursday at Coors Amphitheatre in San Diego and Friday at Glen Helen Blockbuster Pavilion in Devore.

Video

Actor Todd Field skillfully directed “In the Bedroom,” an intimate, disturbing drama about a happy family whose lives are torn apart when tragedy strikes. The Academy Award-nominated film stars Sissy Spacek, Nick Stahl, Marisa Tomei and Tom Wilkinson, who steals the movie with his performance as the husband--a successful doctor--who decides to take justice into his own hands. In stores Tuesday on DVD and VHS.