REDCAT becomes a lively summer laboratory for performing artists next month as it presents the first annual New Original Works (NOW) Festival. The performance festival offers three weekend programs that feature some of the most inventive artists working in Los Angeles. Seven individual performing artists and collaborative teams were selected from more than 70 proposals to take part in the inaugural edition of the NOW Festival. Designed as a showcase for risk-taking work by emerging and mid-career performing artists, the festival embodies REDCAT's interdisciplinary mission by including a diverse blend of dance, theater, music and mixed media performances at various stages of development.

"There is a growing and thriving community of Los Angeles artists who have an important role to play in the evolution of the performing arts nationally and internationally," said Mark Murphy, executive director of REDCAT. "I hope that this festival serves a useful role in the development of their unique and vital voices."

Each program is performed Thursday, Friday and Saturday, for one week-end. All performances begin at 8:30 p.m.

July 15, 16, 17
Program 1:
Hassan Christopher & The Company of Strangers
Ken Roht's Orphean Circus

July 22, 23, 24
Program 2:
Maria Gillespie
Deborah Cohen
Cehng-Chieh Yu/Yu Dance Theater

July 29, 30, 31
Program 3:
Lauren Weedman
My Barbarian

SAVE! See all three programs in the three-week Festival for only $35. Available only by calling the REDCAT box office. 213.237.2800

For Student and Senior discounts, please call the REDCAT box office at 213-237-2800.

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