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SUMMARY:New Original Works Festival 2026: Week Two
DESCRIPTION:Brenda BarriosMuñequita Muy Muy\nDrawing inspiration fr
 om her experience as a first-generation Mexican American\, Brenda Bar
 rios ‘ Muñequita Muy Muy blends cultural symbolism\, queerness\,
  and disability into a celebration of healing and visibility. Barrio
 s uses sculpture\, dance\, song\, and storytelling to bring life-size 
 replica dolls and a motorized truck onstage alongside live musicians a
 nd 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 h
 old histories of care\, struggle\, and evolution.\n \nCody Perkins /
  Algorythm.Code Motherboard\nCan machines support empathy\, rather t
 han extraction? Choreographer\, composer\, and director Cody Perkins 
 / Algorythm.Code (Art and Technology MFA) takes up this question ab
 out technology and intimacy in Motherboard. In this dance and music p
 iece\, performer Gretch Ackerman enters into an evolving relationshi
 p with the Motherboard shrine—an independent electronic device onsta
 ge that observes\, responds to\, and directs her body. Perkins draws a
  connection between women and machines\, recognizing that both have hi
 storically been controlled and discarded within systems of power. Thro
 ugh movement\, sound\, ritual\, and interaction with the Motherboard s
 hrine\, a shared history of exploitation evolves into a duet of care a
 nd exchange.\n \nSUUVIREGENESIS\nCombining original music for cello 
 and electronics with audio and motion-reactive visuals\, REGENESIS e
 xplores cycles of rupture\, transformation\, and renewal. This interdi
 sciplinary performance draws connections between the rejuvenation of e
 cosystems\, the formation of stars\, and the healing of the human nerv
 ous system\, weaving SUUVI’s personal journey into a broader medita
 tion on resilience and new life. Her virtuosic composition and solo pe
 rformance on electrified cello is mixed with cinematic visuals by Kyt
 er Steffes and choreography by Megan Paradowski\, in a work that inv
 ites audiences to reflect on how collapse can become the catalyst for 
 new possibilities.\n \nPlease note: Muñequita Muy Muy contains fl
 ashing lights\, loud sounds and mature content\; Motherboard contain
 s nudity and loud sounds\; REGENESIS contains flashing lights\, loud
  sounds and mature content.\n \nNOW 2026: Week Two will be present
 ed as one shared program of all three works on Thursday\, Friday\, and
  Saturday.
URL:https://www.redcat.org/events/now-2026-week-two
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ORGANIZER;SENT-BY="mailto:redcat@calarts.edu";CN=Rolando Rodriguez:
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