Copresented by Northwest Film Forum and Velocity Dance Center, Dance Cinema is the quarterly series pairing classic movies containing amazing dance sequences with thematically linked short films from iconic dancers and choreographers. Tonight’s offerings: 1961’s West Side Story, featuring the Oscar-winning direction and choreography of Jerome Robbins, and Meredith Monk’s short film of 1981, Ellis Island. (Northwest Film Forum, 1515 12th Ave, nwfilmforum.org, 8 pm, $10)