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

BALLET X at the Joyce Theater (Oct. 1-2, 7:30 p.m.; Oct. 3-4, 8 p.m.; through Oct. 6). “The Little Prince,” Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s enduring tale, gets the ballet treatment from the popular choreographer Annabelle Lopez Ochoa, performed by this valuable Philadelphia-based company. As in the novella, the titular character travels from planet to planet, with a stop on Earth, learning lessons about loneliness, loss and selflessness. The shifting all-white set provides a flexible blank slate, and against that backdrop, colorful characters relay the prince’s journey, which is accompanied by a live performance of an original score by Peter Salem.

212-242-0800, joyce.org

STEFANIE BATTEN BLAND at the Ellen Stewart Theater at La MaMa (Oct. 3-5, 7 p.m.; through Oct. 6). Stanley Kramer’s classic 1967 film, “Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner,” about a white woman who brings her black fiancé home to meet her parents, hit theaters just six months after the Supreme Court struck down state laws banning interracial marriage. More than 50 years later, this choreographer still sees relevance in its story. Her work, “Look Who’s Coming to Dinner,” appearing in the coming week at the French Institute Alliance Française’s Crossing the Line Festival, nods to the film not only in name, but also by placing seven performers around a table to confront ongoing racial biases.

212-352-3101, lamama.org

MONICA BILL BARNES & COMPANY at the Winter Garden at Brookfield Place (Oct. 3-6, 7 p.m.). Shopping malls are inherently theatrical spaces, a characteristic that Bill Barnes, an astute choreographer, exploits in her new site-specific work “Days Go By,” created with and written by Robbie Saenz de Viteri. Audience members receive headphones that supply them with a soundtrack of one-hit wonders as they observe an eclectic group of dancers, actors, musicians and amateur performers who are interspersed among regular shoppers at this Lower Manhattan retail center. As with much of Bill Barnes’s work, the result is likely to be a sweet mix of goofiness and poignancy.

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YOSHIKO CHUMA at the 92nd Street Y (Sept. 27-28, 8 p.m.). Chuma has been making urgent, multigenre work in New York since the 1980s, after moving here from her native Japan and founding a collective called the School of Hard Knocks. This weekend, as part of the Harkness Presents series, the group performs “Secret Journey to Tipping Utopia,” an exploration of an ideal place depicted through sound, text and movement that also grapples with utopia’s opposite: war. On Friday at noon, Chuma will join the renowned Senegalese dancer and choreographer Germaine Acogny to discuss their work, with examples from each performed live or shown on film.

212-415-5500, 92y.org