alexander
gedeon
alexander
gedeon
gedeon
I am a deviser and director of new opera and theater
born and based in los angeles.
the latest
--+ Everything Rises, my collaboration with Jennifer Koh, Davóne Tines and Ken Ueno, at BAM (Brooklyn Academy of Music) was a New York Times Critics’ Pick.
--+ Last fall, I spent a month in Knoxville at the Loghaven Artist Residency with choreographer Daeun Jung & composer Daniel Corral, devising a dance opera to be produced by Los Angeles Performance Practice.
--+ This spring, i associate-directed Proximity at Lyric Opera of Chicago, with libretto by Anna Deavere Smith, music by Daniel Bernard-Roumain, Caroline Shaw & John Luther Adams; directed by Yuval Sharon.
opera | concert theater
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Everything Rises
La tragèdie de Carmen
Concerto for Having Fun with Elvis on Stage
Sanctuaries
The Double
La tragèdie de Carmen
Concerto for Having Fun with Elvis on Stage
Sanctuaries
The Double
popular music
Before pivoting to opera, I worked as the songwriter, choreographer, guitarist & lead singer of Brooklyn-based punk-funk band Trick and the Heartstrings, & LA disco ensemble Yellow Alex. I collaborated with Grammy winning producer Paul Epworth (Adele, Florence + the Machine) & had song placements in indie films, ABC TV and the iTunes worldwide playlist. My last record, House of Discipline, received over a year of airplay on LA’s KCRW.
prisoner of fashion / house of discipline
body & voice
I sometimes perform in my own & other folks’ work as a multidisciplinary performer. As a bandleader, I frequently choreographed movement for musicians.+
art does not organize parties, nor is it the servant or colleague of power. rather, the work of art becomes a political force simply through the faithful representation of the spirit. it is a political act to create an image of the self or of the collective.
[lewis hyde]