CLAUDIA BAUER’S DANCE PICK

Dance disappears the moment it’s performed, but artists have found ways to create a visual record that captures the joy, beauty and immediacy of dance in its many manifestations – rituals and rites of passage, onstage and in the streets.

Lawrence Rinder, director and chief curator of Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, has gathered an array of images and ephemera into the exhibition “Get Dancin’,” opening Wednesday, Jan. 9. The show is compact, but Rinder’s vision for it is expansive; the 25 pieces he’s chosen range from 1820s woodblock prints by Yusai Chiharu and Glen E. Friedman’s 1982 photograph of the punk band Bad Brains onstage at CBGB in New York, to an 1888 etching by Edgar Degas, vintage movie posters and iconic images of modern-dance pioneers José Limon and Martha Graham.

“Get Dancin’ ” also has a live component that’s hosted by the museum’s Full series, which presents on-site performances on the evening of every full moon. Berkeley Ballet Theater kicks things off on Jan. 11 with exhibition-inspired choreography by Raymond Ejiofor and Kylie WoodwardSollesnes; future lunar cycles will bring Halau O Keikiali’i, Chhandam School of Kathak, De Rompe y Raja Cultural Association, Xandra Ibarra, Latanya d. Tigner, Erik Lee and Larry Arrington.

“Get Dancin’ ”:

11 a.m-7 p.m. Wednesdays and Thursdays; 11 a.m.-9 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays; 11 a.m.-7 p.m. Sundays. Wednesday, Jan. 9-March 31. $11-$13; 18 and younger free. BAMPFA, 2155 Center St., Berkeley. 510-642-0808. www.bampfa.org