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DON'T MISS!: PAS DE POOCH ‘PUNK ballerina” Karole Armitage has gone to the dogs. Her “Werk!: The Armitage Gone! Variety Show” — Wednesday through May 5 at the Abrons Arts Center — brings together a group of acts from artists including painter Will Cotton and former New York City Ballet principal Charles Askegard. But a dance featuring one of photographer William Wegman’s famed Weimaraners is the ribbon on the bow-wow-wow. Eight-year-old Bobbin will be outfitted like in a Wegman photo, as Armitage dancers try and impress the pooch with their mad dance skills from ballet to krumping. “I always thought you could make dogs dance,” Armitage explains. “[Wegman] was more skeptical. Dogs have their own personalities. We tried a younger dog, but he rebelled. Bobbin is the right dog; he’s noble, soulful, with a lot of gravitas.” Capping off the doggie dance will be Armitage’s carnival-like celebration, “Rave.” Tickets, $30, at 466 Grand St.; 212-598-0400, abronsarts-center.org — Leigh Witchel

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LISTEN UP!: KIDSTOCK Three days of peace, love, music and juice boxes, this weekend’s KindieFest is a who’s who of family-friendly music. This fourth annual gathering includes panels and networking among artists, radio deejays, record-label people, publicists and others. It’s like Davos for kids’ music, except “Yo Gabba Gabba!” co-creator Scott Schultz is the keynote speaker, instead of some European finance minister. For the public, the main event is Sunday’s show at Brooklyn’s Littlefield space (622 Degraw St., Gowanus; littlefieldnyc.com). Among the kid-fave bands in the lineup are Jazz at Lincoln Center’s WeBop, the Bari Koral Family Rock Band, Moona Luna and Apple Brains. “I’m pretty fired up about Sunday’s show,” says cool kids-tunes pioneer Dan Zanes, a KindieFest panelist. “The lineup gives a good sense of how the family music world is slowly getting more diverse in its offerings. That’s good news.” The show is noon to 4; tickets are $12 to $15. — Billy Heller

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WATCH IT!: SEEWORTHY When Alfred Hitchcock came to America in 1939, his first film was supposed to be “Titanic,’’ which got scuttled because it might have reflected badly on the British, who had just taken on Germany in World War II. Hitch finally went to sea for the John Steinbeck-written “Lifeboat’’ (1944), which pits an American journalist (Talullah Bankhead) and other survivors from a sunken liner against a Nazi (Walter Slezak) responsible for the dastardly deed. Tonight at 8, it will kick off a weekend of nautical disaster flicks — “A Night to Remember’’ (1959), tomorrow night at 6, and “The Poseidon Adventure’’ (1966) at 8:20 — at the Landmark Loew’s Jersey movie palace, by the PATH at Journal Square in Jersey City. Info: loewsjersey.org — Lou Lumenick

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RIDE ON OVER!: BIKERS ISLAND Get May’s National Bike Month rolling early with the second annual New Amsterdam Bicycle Show. In addition to 68 vendors showing 300 bikes from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. tomorrow and Sunday, there’s a bikewear fashion show tomorrow at 2 p.m. featuring cycling cinema star Matthew Modine. “I have an Old Dutch — orange for the Knicks,” says Modine of his own ride. “It’s a single-gear, kick-back-brake, upright bicycle.” While the actor used to own a fancier, multi-gear bike, it was stolen two years ago. Still, he says the Old Dutch gets him from the Village to Yankee Stadium in 40 minutes. “The stadium beer tastes so much better after a bike ride than [after] the subway,” says Modine. The show features bikes from around the globe including hand-built cycles by Brooklyn’s own Rosko company. And Modine might be pleased to know the latest in bike locks will also be on display. Skylight SoHo, 275 Hudson St.; newambikeshow.com. Tickets are $15 online or $20 at the door. — Brian Niemietz

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GO HERE!: A HELLO TO ARMS The 35th annual White Castle NYC Big Apple Grapple International Arm Wrestling Championship muscles into the East Village tomorrow. At the Village Pourhouse, amateurs and pros will compete in several weight classes divided between lefties and righties and also split by gender. But all grapplers will use one of three techniques, explains Gene Camp, who started this competition in 1977. “There’s the old-fashioned curl; the curl over the top, where they try to roll or open your fingers up; or the press, where they put all their weight into it and slam you down.” Spectators pay $5 to watch, but bettors beware. “Sometimes you see a skinny guy and think he has no chance, and he ends up winning,” says Camp. “I’ve never seen a bodybuilder that’s good at arm wrestling. They don’t build the tendons up.” Weigh-ins begin at 9:30 a.m., grappling at 1 p.m. 64 Third Ave.; 212-979-2337, nycarms.com — B.N.