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EVENT: Do you just wanna dance, dance, dance? Well find out why tonight, as Columbia University neuroscientist Dave Sulzer and the university's Motor Performance Laboratory co-director, John Krakauer, make some sense out of the urge to shake it. They'll discuss brain activity and conduct a live experiment of sound manipulation.

6:30 p.m. // CUNY Grad Center [365 5th Ave] // Free

MUSIC: DC's Le Loup join New Zealand's The Ruby Sons (pictured) at Union Hall tonight for a night of top shelf tunes.

8 p.m. // Union Hall [702 Union St, Park Slope] // $10

THEATER: Classic Stage Company, which is currently hosting a star-studded revival of Chekhov’s The Seagull, turns its stage over to their popular First Look Festival tonight with a one-time-only reading of Sophocles’s Electra, directed by Brian Kulick. This is part two of a three night series covering the Oresteia trilogy with one play by each of the Greek heavyweights; next week's playwright is Euripides. Tonight’s reading features Elizabeth Marvel, who was sensational in the 2004 NYTW production of Hedda Gabler and was most recently seen in Ethan Coen’s Almost an Evening. – John Del Signore

8 p.m. // Classic Stage Company [136 East 13th Street] // Tickets cost $30.

PARTY: Starting your week off with an open Bulldog Gin bar may not be a wise decision, but if you're ready to throw caution to the wind, head over to Botanica Bar for just that. Death and Taxes are throwing a B-52s party tonight so drink up and get ready to yell: "Tin Roof...Rusted."

9 p.m. // Botanica Bar [47 East Houston St] // Free

Photo by Michael On

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