Regional arts and entertainment events

Sunday

The

New Edge Mix Performance Series

presents a quintet of modern dance troupes and choreographers, including recent Temple grad

Jumatatu Poe

,

Diane Sharp-Nachsin

and her

SHARP Dance Company

,

Michelle Stortz

's ensemble

Ring

, the performance collective

Perpetual Mvmt<>Snd

with codirector

Emily Sweeney

, and Fringe vet

Abigail Zbikowski

. The program begins at 3 p.m. at the

Community Education Center

, 3500 Lancaster Ave. Tickets are $12; $10 for seniors and students. Call 215-387-1911.

Monday

Pulitzer Prize-wining author

Anthony Lewis

looks at the ways the First Amendment has been interpreted and the ways the right of free expression has evolved over the decades in his latest book,

Freedom for the Thought That We Hate

. He discusses his work at 6:30 p.m. at the

National Constitution Center

, 525 Arch St. Tickets are $15. Call 215-409-6700.

Tuesday

The acclaimed and acrobatic

Moiseyev Dance Company

performs traditional dances from Russia, Greece, Egypt, Spain and elsewhere at 8 p.m. at

the Commerce Bank Arts Centre

, 519 Hurffville-Crosskeys Rd., Sewell. Tickets are $28 to $52. Call 856-218-8902.

Wednesday

Don't be fooled by their appearance on TV's glamour-kids fantasy

Gossip Girl

. Though

the Pierces

have the looks to fit right in with the walking eugenics ads on the tube melodrama, this sister act is not purveying anything close to mindless bubblegum. Their sound is revved-up folk-pop that combines southern Gothic, euro-trash ennui, and grad-school-level hipness into a pleasing, if decidedly anti-cuddly, aesthetic. The duo plays at 7:30 p.m. at

World Cafe Live

, 3025 Walnut St. Tickets are $21 and $26. Call 215-222-1400.

With a journalism career that starts with being hired by the legendary Edward R. Murrow and includes stints at the beginning of CBS and CNN, three Emmys, and a Peabody Award,

Daniel Schorr

couldn't be blamed for resting on his laurels. As any news junkie knows, the nonagenarian reporter is still working. Schorr discusses his new book,

Come to Think of It

, observations on politics over the last 20 years, at 7 p.m. at the

Free Library's

Montgomery Auditorium, 19th and Vine Streets. Admission is free. Call 215-567-4341.

Thursday

The

Tokyo Quartet

performs a wide-ranging recital - Beethoven's

Quartet in F Major

, rising star Lera Auerbach's

Quartet No. 2 "Primera Luz,"

and Weber's

Clarinet Quintet in B-flat Major

with guest artist

Anthony McGill

- at 8 p.m. at the

Kimmel Center's

Perelman Theater, Broad and Spruce Streets. Tickets are $22.50; $10 for students. Call 215-569-8080.

Based on the true story that inspired

Moby-Dick

, James Sugg's song cycle

The Sea

is a tale of a sea captain's obsessed search for his mermaid daughter, upending both classical and rock opera traditions with video projections, site-specific performances, and an avant-folk electronica score. The show goes on at

Old Swedes' Church

, 916 S. Swanson St., at 8 p.m. Thursday through Saturday. Tickets are $15. Call 215-389-1513.

Friday & Saturday

The inventive San Francisco troupe

LEVYdance

was set to appear here in March, but an ice storm put the kibosh on that. Undaunted, the troupe takes its chances with a winter show again. Choreographer Bernard Levy and company present new work at the

Performance Garage

, 1515 Brandywine St., at 7:30 p.m. Friday. Tickets are $10. Call 215-546-2552. . . . The intriguing

nEW festival

presents two programs at the

UArts Dance Theatre at the Drake

, 1512 Spruce St. (call 215-359-7775):

Megan Mazarick

performs Roadkill, a modern dance piece set in a truck stop, at 7 p.m. Friday and 9 p.m. Saturday (tickets are $15), while the omnibus program

Dancehouse

previews works by

Charles Anderson/

DanceTheatrex, Eun Jung Choi-Gonzalez

,

Jeffrey Gunshol

,

Jaamil Kosoko/PerFORMance

,

Olive Prince Dance

,

Gabrielle Revlock

, and

Melanie Stewart Dance Theatre

at 9 p.m. Friday, 7 p.m. Saturday, and 3 p.m. next Sunday (tickets are $10).

Dutch pianist

Misha Mengelberg

brings his free-jazz quartet to the

International House

, 3701 Chestnut St., at 8 p.m. Friday. Tickets are $25; $20 for seniors; $17.50 for students. Call 866-468-7619. . . . The

Sunny Jain Collective

blends jazz, South Asian and Indian music into a winning mix at the

Painted Bride Art Center

, 230 Vine St., at 8 p.m. Saturday. Tickets are $25. Call 215-925- 9914.

Icelandic soprano

Dísella Làrusdóttir

, a rising star, performs works by Purcell, Strauss, Rachmaninoff and Bellini in a recital at the

Community Music School

, 775 W. Main St., Trappe, at 8 p.m. Saturday. Tickets are $16; $12 for seniors and students. Call 610-489-3676. . . . Violist

Brett Deubner

plays works by Frank Ezra Levy, Amanda Harberg, Sergio Parotti, and Andrew Rudin at the

Woodmere Art Museum

, 9201 Germantown Ave., at 8 p.m. Saturday. Admission is free. Call 215-247-0476.