A selection of arts events in Nashville that caught our eye this week.

Companhia Urbana de Dança: Entidades

• Nov 14, 16, 17 (times vary)
• OZ Arts
• Website

Rio de Janeiro street dance is illustrated as a meeting of hip-hop, samba, and capoeira in this Brazilian dance ensemble. The company was founded in Brazil by dancer Tiago Sousa and choreographer Sonia Destri Lie, and many of the company members grew up in favelas of Rio de Janeiro. Highlighting the abilities, identities, and testimonials of its company members.

Le Goûts Réunis

• Nov 12 at 8 p.m.
• Blair School of Music
• Website

Violinist Maria Romero, flutist Jessica Dunnavant, oboist Jared Hauser, and harpsichordist Polly Brecht show a fusion of styles performed on historic instruments. Music by Telemann, CPE Bach, Couperin, and Vivaldi – showing a variety of musical regions that make up the geography of the Baroque period.

La Vie Quartet: Mendelssohn & Mayer

• Nov 12 at 7 p.m.
• Rymer Gallery
• Website

With a repertoire that ranges from Top 40 to the classics, La Vie Quartet will accompany the contemporary art on exhibit at the Rymer Gallery.

The Fantasticks

• Nov. 8-24
• Center for the Arts, Murfreesboro
• Website

Try to remember when life was so tender … as this story about a boy and a girl, the manipulation of their fathers, lessons learned, and love hard-won is told. The musical, written in the 1950s, is based on the play Les Romanesques by Edmond Rostand. It was the world’s longest-running musical when it closed in 2002 after over 17,000 performances.