Thursday, November 12, 2026 at 8:00 PM
REDCAT, Los Angeles
The 23rd annual[ New Original Works](https://www.redcat.org/node/1914) continues with a program of works by by **Brenda Barrios**, **Cody Perkins / Algorythm.Code**, and **SUUVI**. [*BUY A FESTIVAL PASS! SEE ALL 9 WORKS FOR $50!*](https://ci.ovationtix.com/34348/store/packages) **Brenda Barrios** ***Muñequita Muy Muy*** Drawing inspiration from her experience as a first-generation Mexican American, **Brenda Barrios** ‘** ***Muñequita Muy Muy* blends cultural symbolism, queerness, and disability into a celebration of healing and visibility. Barrios uses sculpture, dance, song, and storytelling to bring life-size replica dolls and a motorized truck onstage alongside live musicians and performers. Barrios composes and performs original music combining pop music and Mexican operatic vocal traditions with ranchera and rock en español, alongside extended vocal techniques including *el grito mexicano*. Her detailed, hyperrealistic sculptures transform familiar objects into *milagritos*—Mexican charms to meditate on how bodies hold histories of care, struggle, and evolution. **Cody Perkins / Algorythm.Code ** ***Motherboard*** Can machines support empathy, rather than extraction? Choreographer, composer, and director **Cody Perkins / Algorythm.Code** (Art and Technology MFA) takes up this question about technology and intimacy in *Motherboard*. In this dance and music piece, performer **Gretch Ackerman** enters into an evolving relationship with the Motherboard shrine—an independent electronic device onstage that observes, responds to, and directs her body. Perkins draws a connection between women and machines, recognizing that both have historically been controlled and discarded within systems of power. Through movement, sound, ritual, and interaction with the Motherboard shrine, a shared history of exploitation evolves into a duet of care and exchange. **SUUVI** ***REGENESIS*** *REGENESIS* is a multidisciplinary work exploring the intertwined cycles of life, death, transformation, and renewal. Drawing connections between regenerating ecosystems and the continual processes of decay and emergence that shape the natural world, the work weaves **SUUVI**’s personal experience of grief and loss into a broader meditation on the processes of dissolution and renewal through which living systems continually transform. Composed, directed, and performed by multidisciplinary artist SUUVI, the work brings together original music for cello and electronics, live dancers and choreography by **Megan Paradowski**, cinematic projections and lighting design by **Matt Brown**, and painted elements by **Reed Gibson**, creating an immersive work that considers endings as part of an ongoing process through which new forms, memories, and possibilities emerge. *Please note: *Muñequita Muy Muy *contains flashing lights, loud sounds and mature content; *Motherboard *contains nudity and loud sounds; *REGENESIS* contains flashing lights, loud sounds and mature content.* NOW 2026: Week Two* will be presented as one shared program of all three works on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday.* [NOW 2026: Week One](https://www.redcat.org/events/now-2026-week-one) / [NOW 2026: Week Three](https://www.redcat.org/events/now-2026-week-three) / [NOW 2026](https://www.redcat.org/node/1914)