REDCAT ROY AND EDNA DISNEY/CALARTS THEATER

The 23rd annual&nbsp;<a href="https://www.redcat.org/node/1914" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">New Original Works</a> kicks off with a program of works by Alfonso Abraham Cervera and Irvin Manuel Gonzalez, Scottie Harvey and Jeonghyeon Joo.&nbsp;

<h3>Alfonso Abraham Cervera and Irvin Manuel&nbsp;Gonzalez</h3>
las cosas que&nbsp;enter(r)amos
Drawing on Latinx American social and folk dance, storytelling, and contemporary dance, Alfonso Abraham Cervera and Irvin Manuel Gonzalez explore the (im)materiality of belonging in this new dance duet. Partners in life and on dance floors, they use movement to tell stories that foreground cuir/queer Mexicanidades.&nbsp;las cosas que enter(r)amos&nbsp;centers rhythm, aesthetics, and the body as sites of memory, mourning, and resistance. Set in Latinx nightlife, the duet presents grooving and exchange as living altars that honor past and present cuir/queer lives and transborder movidas (moves that expand possibilities for worldmaking).&nbsp;Rooted in&nbsp;rascuachismo—a Chicanx working-class aesthetic of creative resourcefulness—the duo dances between remembering and&nbsp;re-membering.
<h3>Scottie&nbsp;Harvey</h3>
Hole&nbsp;Gazers
Hole Gazers is a comedic satire about fantasy, surveillance, and life online. Wearing a Halloween muscle costume, Scottie Harvey plays the role of MAN—a gay porn star—who feels violated when he finds his likeness is being used in workplace accident prevention videos. Alone in his claustrophobic apartment, MAN begins messaging the anonymous animator, who has crafted his online avatar, and imagines an escape from his life through the chat box of their relationship. Combining humor, animation, and performance, this piece probes the absurdity and possibility of safety and connection in our slippery virtual&nbsp;world.&nbsp;
<h3>Jeonghyeon&nbsp;Joo</h3>
how to bathe&nbsp;properly
how to bathe properly is a solo work for&nbsp;haegeum, a two-string instrument, performed in a staged Korean sauna. The piece extends the gesture and sound of bowing an instrument to the repetitive, vigorous body scrubbing offered in a&nbsp;jjimjilbang, or Korean spa. As water flows onstage, Jeonghyeon Joo (Musical Arts PhD 2023) turns the private ritual of bathing into a public performance. Proposing that the labor of being spotless is an endless cycle of erasure, Joo asks what is left behind when we attempt to scrub away the history of our own&nbsp;skin.&nbsp;
NOW 2026: Week One will be presented as one shared program of all three works on Thursday, Friday, and&nbsp;Saturday.&nbsp;
Please note: las cosas que enter(r)amos contains strobe lights, nudity, mature content, and dried herbs; how to bathe properly contains mature content; Hole Gazers contains strobe lights and mature&nbsp;content.

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NOW 2026: Alfonso Abraham Cervera and Irvin...

The 23rd annual New Original Works kicks off with a program of works by Alfonso Abraham Cervera and Irvin Manuel Gonzalez,...

NOW 2026: Alfonso Abraham Cervera and Irvin Manuel Gonzalez, Scottie Harvey, Jeonghyeon Joo

The Chapter House, The Broad, and REDCAT co-present Sage-Based Drag Night, an interactive, queen-centric comedy and drag show hosted by Indigenous comedians and queens Jana Schmieding (Lakota), Brian Bahe (Diné/Hopi/Tohono O’odham), Landa Lakes (Chickasaw), Lady Shug (Navajo), Big Mama Tama (Hawaiian/Tahitian/Filipino/Chinese), Bohenne Arreaux (Jena Choctaw) and special guests. The night will feature a combination of standup comedy and drag performances, and will culminate in a live recording of the&nbsp;Sage-Based Wisdom podcast, where Jana, Brian, Landa, Shug, Big Mama Tama, and Bohenne Arreaux will give out the smudgiest, sagiest, solicited advice to willing audience&nbsp;members.
Tickets include admission to The Broad and the adjoining LA NDN Flea – A Native Market on Saturday and Sunday, November 7 and 8. Modeled after flea markets that can be found on many reservations, the biannual LA NDN Flea – A Native Market features everything from recycled clothing to handcrafted jewelry, original art, and much&nbsp;more.
Please note: Sage-Based Drag Night contains mature&nbsp;content.

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Sage-Based Drag Night: Jana Schmieding, Brian...

The Chapter House, The Broad, and REDCAT co-present Sage-Based Drag Night, an interactive, queen-centric comedy and drag show...

Sage-Based Drag Night: Jana Schmieding, Brian Bahe, Landa Lakes, Lady Shug, Big Mama Tama, Bohenne A

The 23rd annual<a href="https://www.redcat.org/node/1914" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">&nbsp;New Original Works</a> continues with a program of works by by Brenda Barrios, Cody Perkins / Algorythm.Code, and SUUVI.&nbsp;<a href="https://ci.ovationtix.com/34348/store/packages" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">BUY A FESTIVAL PASS! SEE ALL 9 WORKS FOR&nbsp;$50!</a><h3>Brenda&nbsp;Barrios</h3>
Muñequita Muy&nbsp;Muy
Drawing inspiration from her experience as a first-generation Mexican American, Brenda Barrios ‘&nbsp;Muñequita Muy Muy blends cultural symbolism, queerness, and&nbsp;disability&nbsp;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&nbsp;el grito mexicano. Her detailed, hyperrealistic sculptures transform familiar objects into&nbsp;milagritos—Mexican charms to meditate on how bodies hold histories of care, struggle, and&nbsp;evolution.
<h3>Cody Perkins /&nbsp;Algorythm.Code&nbsp;</h3>
Motherboard
Can machines support empathy, rather than extraction? Choreographer, composer, and director Cody Perkins / Algorythm.Code (Art and Technology MFA)&nbsp;takes up this question about technology and intimacy in&nbsp;Motherboard. In this dance and music piece, performer Gretchen 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&nbsp;exchange.
<h3>SUUVI</h3>
REGENESIS
REGENESIS&nbsp;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&nbsp;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&nbsp;SUUVI, the work brings together original music for cello and electronics, live dancers and choreography by&nbsp;Megan Paradowski, cinematic projections and lighting design by&nbsp;Matt Brown, and painted elements by&nbsp;Reed Gibson, creating an immersive work that considers endings as part of an ongoing process through which new forms, memories, and possibilities&nbsp;emerge.
Please note:&nbsp;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&nbsp;content.
NOW 2026: Week Two will be presented as one shared program of all three works on Thursday, Friday, and&nbsp;Saturday.

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2026 NOW Festival: Week 2

The 23rd annual New Original Works continues with a program of works by by Brenda Barrios, Cody Perkins / Algorythm.Code, and...

The 23rd annual&nbsp;<a href="https://www.redcat.org/node/1914" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">New Original Works</a> continues with a program of works by Chica Barbosa, Friidom and Tarren&nbsp;Johnson.&nbsp;
<a href="https://ci.ovationtix.com/34348/store/packages" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">BUY A FESTIVAL PASS! SEE ALL 9 WORKS FOR&nbsp;$50!</a><h3>Chica&nbsp;Barbosa</h3>
Marilyn&nbsp;Times
Chica Barbosa’s&nbsp;Marilyn Times revisits the legend of Marilyn Monroe through a Latin American lens to question what might be possible when an icon is liberated. The performance stages a dream-state encounter between three characters: Norma Jeane (the woman), Marilyn Monroe (the myth), and Bia Borinn (the performer). Inspired by Brazilian playwright Sergio Roveri’s play imagining Monroe’s final moments, director and filmmaker Chica Barbosa expands that text in a multidimensional piece layering film projection and solo performance. Created in Marilyn Monroe’s centenary year,&nbsp;Marilyn Times frames Monroe’s life as a site of rupture exceeding the illusions of Hollywood projected onto&nbsp;her.&nbsp;
<h3>Friidom</h3>
THE TETHER&nbsp;
THE TETHER is a deep dive into the ethos of street dance. The piece stems from a pivotal lesson Friidom’s parents taught him about support: when helping someone, you grab them by the wrist, not just the hand, to hold their full weight. In an increasingly divided world, Friidom (Dance and Choreography MFA 2026)&nbsp;sees the keys to survival in the ways dancers support each other. Bringing together dance forms including Krump, D-Boogie, Poppin, Waving, and Tutting, this dynamic piece explores the connections that tie community together,moving beyond one style, neighborhood, or generation. As live music builds and freestyling dancers gather in a propulsive cypher Friidom asks: how do we tether our ancestors’ wisdom and the needs of future generations to the decisions we make&nbsp;today?&nbsp;
<h3>Tarren&nbsp;Johnson</h3>
High Earners Not Rich&nbsp;Yet
In this dance theater piece, Tarren Johnson (Dance and Choreography BFA 2013) reflects on the physical and economic tensions of Los Angeles in a portrait of precarity. Collaging fragments of text, voice, movement, recorded piano, and image, High Earners Not Rich Yet references individuals who earn substantial incomes yet accumulate little net wealth despite outward signs of affluence. This duet follows a guard as she repeatedly assumes and relinquishes her post amid discarded tires and debris, tracing her inner monologue of observation and memory. Searching for the divine in disorientation, Johnson considers how care is negotiated and sustained through the rituals and contradictions of everyday&nbsp;life.
Please note:&nbsp;Marilyn Times contains flashing lights, nudity, loud sounds and mature content; THE TETHER contains loud&nbsp;sounds.
NOW 2026: Week Three will be presented as one shared program of all three works on Thursday, Friday, and&nbsp;Saturday.&nbsp;

Local Event: 2026 NOW Festival: Week 3

2026 NOW Festival: Week 3

The 23rd annual New Original Works continues with a program of works by Chica Barbosa, Friidom and Tarren Johnson. 
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CalArts Winter Dance Festival features commissioned works from choreographers Bernard Brown, Crystal Jackson-Singletary, Rosanna Tavarez, and Odessa Uno (Dance BFA 19) performed by the students of The Sharon Disney Lund School of Dance. As distinct voices in contemporary dance, these choreographers consider how the next generation of diasporas dance. Each artist utilizes their own movement language, lived experience, and historical legacies to contribute to a shared evening of virtuosity and personal meaning amidst community. Featuring faculty and guest choreographers, the festival highlights the talents of CalArts Dance undergraduate and graduate students in a diverse and celebratory&nbsp;evening.

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CalArts Winter Dance Festival

CalArts Winter Dance Festival features commissioned works from choreographers Bernard Brown, Crystal Jackson-Singletary,...

“Recital” and “citation” share the same root:&nbsp;cite. For Mindy Seu, the recital becomes a practice of embodied citation, where research is transformed into collective performance.&nbsp;A Recital of Citations&nbsp;restages two performances alongside a reflection on the lecture performance as an artistic form and its relationship to polyvocality. Seu begins with an augmented reality reading of her book CYBERFEMINISM INDEX, an encyclopedia of more than 700 entries documenting online activism and net art. In the participatory lecture performance A SEXUAL HISTORY OF THE INTERNET, these histories are spoken not by a single lecturer but collectively by the audience through a shared script on their mobile devices. Citations become scores, lectures become shared recitations, and the authority of a single speaker gives way to a polyphony of&nbsp;readers.
Please note: A Recital of Citations contains mature&nbsp;content.

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A Recital of Citations

“Recital” and “citation” share the same root: cite. For Mindy Seu, the recital becomes a practice of embodied citation, where...

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Barnes & Noble

Barnes &amp; Noble at The Grove welcomes award-winning LA photographers Charlie Nunn and Raymond Janis, joined by 21 of the stars featured in their new book, HOLLYWOOD TAILS: Famous Faces and the Dogs They Love.
Charlie and Raymond's studio has become Hollywood's go-to for celebrity portraits with their dogs. The book features more than 200 portraits of celebrities and the dogs they love, with candid stories from the stars about their pups.
Signing guests include Kristin Bauer, Julie Benz, Dan Bucatinsky, Laganja Estranja, Sasha Farber, Frances Fisher, Marin Hinkle, Matthew Lawrence, Danielle Macdonald, Mercedes Mason and David Denman, Donna Mills, Molly O'Neill, Ron Perlman and Allison Dunbar, Jeff Perry, Melissa Peterman, Eden Sher, Marla Sokoloff, Charlie Weber, and Gregory Zarian, with more still confirming.
Tickets ($54.88) include a copy of the book and a spot in the signing line. Limited tickets available, and a ticket is required for entry. Dogs welcome!

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HOLLYWOOD TAILS Book Signing: 21 Stars. One Night.

Barnes & Noble at The Grove welcomes award-winning LA photographers Charlie Nunn and Raymond Janis, joined by 21 of the stars...

St. Andrew's Lutheran Church

Experience the haunting atmosphere of Gian Carlo Menotti's operatic masterpiece, The Medium, presented by the Independent Opera Company. This gripping production promises a night of intense drama and musical excellence. Tickets are available online for these exclusive performances.

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The Medium

Experience the haunting atmosphere of Gian Carlo Menotti's operatic masterpiece, The Medium, presented by the Independent Opera...

Ever wonder what's behind the doors of LA's largest artist community? For one extraordinary weekend, more than 100 artists open their working studios to the public during the Brewery Artwalk.
Meet the artists. Explore thousands of works of art — painting, ceramics, sculpture, photography, fashion, installation and more. Buy art directly from the artists who make it. Plus a beer garden, food trucks and more.
Saturday and Sunday, November 7 and 8, 11am–6pm, at the Brewery Arts Complex, 2100 N. Main St., Los Angeles 90031.
$5 admission gets you in for the entire weekend. Under 18 free. Free for residents of 90031, 90033 and 90023 with ID. Free parking — arrive early, it fills fast.
Tickets: breweryartwalk.org/tickets. Come explore the Brewery and support LA's creative community.

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