Dance-Operas
Our evening length mainstage presentations are fully staged theatrical works. These extraordinary pieces push the genre boundaries of story-telling through music and movement to tell epic narratives of spiritually transformative journeys.
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Conference of the Birds Conference of the Birds is based on Sufi mystic poet Attar’s seminal text. The story follows the birds of the world who embark on a journey to find their king, the Simurgh, a divine, mythical creature. |
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The Moon Has Made Us Brothers Harlequin and Pierrot, two characters in the Commedia dell’arte often depicted as companions, are actually the same person in The Moon Has Made Us Brothers. The story chronicles how the sad and naive Pierrot eventually came to be the romantic Harlequin. |
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Saharava: A Ritualized Dance-Opera Saharava is the telling of the hero’s journey as portrayed in the Major Arcana of the Tarot. It is the journey of The Fool, as narrated by The Magician, from ignorance to understanding. |
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Concert-Theatre
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Stimmung a newly realized, ritualistic performance of the seminal work by Stockhausen for vocal sextet and live electronics. 6 singers and 1 electronics artist. Requires a basic PA and amplification for each performer. |
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Rise and Fall (in collaboration with theatre dybbuk) a concert work from theatre dybbuk and HEX that mashes up spoken language and song to form a journey of creation, separation, coming together, and coming apart. This event combines poetic text from theatre dybbuk's theatrical works entwined with and elevated by HEX's exquisite vocal landscapes. |
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Fall of the House of Usher (silent film score) a live film soundtrack to Jean Epstein's surrealist work from the 1920s. HEX creates a multi-textural world using only voices from a score written collaboratively by 12 Los Angeles composers. |
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Interstitial (in collaboration with brightwork
newmusic)
Educational Opportunities
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