REDCAT in downtown Los Angeles is hosting the 23rd edition of its New Original Works Festival, a three-weekend showcase of new performance that runs from November 5 to 21. Nine original pieces in dance, music, theatre and multimedia will be presented, giving Los Angeles artists a stage to develop and premiere work. Four of this year's projects come from graduates and current students of the California Institute of the Arts.

The opening weekend, November 5 to 7, features composer and haegeum player Jeonghyeon Joo, who completed a doctorate in music at CalArts in 2023. Her solo piece, how to bathe properly, is set in a staged Korean sauna, where she plays the traditional two-stringed instrument while water flows across the stage. The performance draws a line between the gestures of playing the haegeum and the repeated act of scrubbing at a Korean spa, reflecting on the labour of keeping clean as a cycle of erasure.

The second weekend, November 12 to 14, brings Motherboard, a dance and music work by choreographer and MFA student Cody Perkins. Performer Gretchen Ackerman enters into a changing relationship with an electronic shrine that responds to her movement and directs her actions, turning a starting point about the exploitation of women and machines into a duet built on care and exchange.

The final weekend, November 19 to 21, closes with two dance works. Darrel Dunn, a dance MFA student performing as Friidom, presents THE TETHER, a street-dance piece drawing on krump, popping, waving and tutting that explores how dancers support one another across styles, neighbourhoods and generations, guided by a lesson from his parents about holding someone by the wrist rather than the hand. Tarren Johnson, a 2013 dance graduate, offers High Earners Not Rich Yet, a duet set among discarded tyres that follows a guard through the economic pressures of life in Los Angeles. Performances begin at 8pm, Thursday to Saturday, with Saturday shows also streamed live.