Dancer–choregrapher–performance artist Jessica Emmanuel recently appeared in Poor Dog Group’s The Murder Ballad 1938, and she returns to REDCAT this week with her new work WITNESSING HER, which addresses the devastating impact of police violence on black communities.

WITNESSING HER is part of the opening week of Redcat’s New Original Works Festival 2017, and Emmanuel’s piece will be followed by LOVE GASOLINE! by Stacy Dawson Stearns, and UNTITLED COMMUNION by Nancy Keystone (with live music by Jacob Richard).

JESSICA EMMANUEL—WITNESSING HER, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, July 27, 28, and 29. All shows at 8:30 pm.

REDCAT, DISNEY HALL, Music Center, downtown Los Angeles.

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Jessica Emmanuel. Photograph by Alex Barber, courtesy Project Row Houses, Round 46.