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
Combining original music for cello and electronics with audio and motion-reactive visuals, REGENESIS explores cycles of rupture, transformation, and renewal. This interdisciplinary performance draws connections between the rejuvenation of ecosystems, the formation of stars, and the healing of the human nervous system, weaving SUUVI’s personal journey into a broader meditation on resilience and new life. Her virtuosic composition and solo performance on electrified cello is mixed with cinematic visuals by Kyter Steffes and choreography by Megan Paradowski, in a work that invites audiences to reflect on how collapse can become the catalyst for new possibilities.
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.