REDCAT, CalArts' cutting edge presence downtown, opens its 2019-2020 performance season with choreographer Ligia Lewis' Water Will (in Melody). This third section of a trilogy opens with pastoral sounds as Lewis leads viewers into a deconstructed grim fairy tale about a misbehaving or maybe just being a lonely child. Dominican Republic-born Lewis grew up in Florida and now divides her time between New York and Berlin, picking up a New York Bessie award along the way. With performers (including Lewis) garbed in sharply contrasting white and black, the work incorporates voice and gesture along with the movement to tell the tale.

REDCAT, 631 W. 2nd St., downtown; Thu.-Sat., Sept. 12-14, 8:30 p.m., Sun., Sept. 15, 3 p.m.; $27-$32, $22-$26. redcat.org.