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Way behind on your holiday shopping? Christkindlmarket, Randolph Street’s Holiday Market, the Bucktown Holiday Art Show, and the Irish Christmas Market are just some of the places you can stop by today. If you’re not feeling these, take a look at the Reader‘s holiday calendar for more markets where you can find presents for your loved ones—or for yourself.

Tonight’s your last chance to see “Catch Your Breath,” a dance showcase that includes a piece by Co’Motion Dance Theater incorporating time-delay videos of the performance while it’s happening. Jena Cutie writes that “the tangle of video cameras, projections, and spotlights makes a point about methodology: the dancers, like the equipment, are also instruments, each assigned one line in the choreographer’s score.” See it at Constellation’s Links Hall.