Our guide to dance performances happening this weekend and in the week ahead.

CARRIE AHERN at various locations (Oct. 10-12, 8 p.m.; through Oct. 19). In 2016, Ahern read Simone de Beauvoir’s 1949 seminal feminist treatise, “The Second Sex,” and found in it answers to many of the questions she had about femininity, authenticity and power. She then created “Sex Status 2.0,” an exploration of gender expectations and desire that premiered last year and now returns for an encore. To enhance the intimacy, and as a comment on how female identity is often tied to domestic spaces, Ahern and six other dancers perform the work in private homes in Brooklyn, the locations of which will be shared with ticket buyers upon purchase.

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DANCE HEGINBOTHAM at Baryshnikov Arts Center (Oct. 10-12, 7:30 p.m.). In 2017, in a most unlikely partnership, the choreographer John Heginbotham collaborated with the author and illustrator Maira Kalman to create a whimsical dance-theater work based on Kalman’s musings. They’ve teamed up again for “Herz Shmerz,” a new dance-play, this time inspired by the writings of the posthumously appreciated early-20th-century Swiss writer Robert Walser. Heginbotham handles the quirky movement, and Kalman, the charming design. Like their previous project, this one also finds humor and pathos in small, simple moments and big, profound questions.

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AUTUMN KNIGHT at Danspace Project (Oct. 5, 3 and 8 p.m.). In “WALL,” a work recently acquired by the Studio Museum in Harlem, Knight looks at physical barriers and their impact on personal and social psychology and spirituality. The walls in question are the Western Wall in Jerusalem, a contentious holy site, and the Galveston sea wall, a 10-mile hurricane barricade not far from Knight’s native Houston. Through abstract sounds and gestures, Knight and the performer Natasha L. Turner, joined by a supporting ensemble, create a sense of ritual that becomes a physical examination of the power of place.

866-811-4111, danspaceproject.org