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Art Like Love (ALL!) ALEXA GRÆ, "COLLUSIONS OF GRANDEUR - transfiguration"
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ALEXA GRÆ, "COLLUSIONS OF GRANDEUR - transfiguration"

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COLLUSIONS OF GRANDEUR - transfiguration

Music by ALEXA GRÆ

Performed by ALEXA GRÆ



COLLUSIONS OF GRANDEUR - transfiguration - meets in soliloquy and spectacle. A surrealist multimedia opera engaging stories manifested through body evolutions. Snapshots and micro-takes of time in quarantine. Messages of trans and queer identity, spiritual downloads, ADHD, blackness, and magic. Where internal truths collide with external myths and reverberate at the body - the body as messenger, as vehicle. Quarantine imposed societal stillness and within that stillness a global moment of many movements. Journeying the streets of New York on foot for months I was greeted with nuance and the pursuit of integration of selves. Moments collected and stored in the body as legacy, Afrofuturistic visions, justice strategies, and fantastical thoughts tethered by escapism to self-regulate. A work rooted in the collusion of the performance of humanity. Thrilling moments and sonic expressions evoke grand opera thrust into the multiverse. Vocalized joy poems bend genre and arias of longing serve as musical anchors. Symphonic soundscapes pair with house music to conjure meditative states and access portals to the dream realm. Video and live dance are elemental for the ascent to reach the spectacular. Marching through the protagonist's hyper euphoric internal dialogue - arranging moments into many revolutions. 

BIO
ALEXA GRÆ, (they/them) is a multi-disciplinary artist and composer. They performed in Isaac Pool’s 2022/2021 works Horizon Lies and Untitled Mood Lighting. In 2021 ALEXA performed in video excerpts for Same As Sister (This is NOT a Remount) and served as sound artist and composer for Jessie Young’s teeth (2022) and in Stephanie Acosta’s installation work Good Day God Damn (2021). ALEXA performed their work “eve’s witness: 2 soliloquies to the night” for the Crossroad Series by Pioneers Go East. They played the role of Alice in A.L.I.C.E in Hologram: part i. - (Maggie Mascal/thnku4sëx) for the QuaranStream Theatre Festival in 2020 and in 2018 they released their first studio song cycle titled ‘SEEN’ accompanied by ‘Sur La Nuit’ an operatic/electronic music video with creators Matthew Ozawa and Jon Wes. ALEXA has performed with Haymarket Opera Company, Madison Opera, Elements Contemporary Ballet, and the Savannah Philharmonic, scored for short films Searching for Isabelle (Stephanie Jeter), Let Go and Let God (Rashida KhanBey), and served as a musical contributor for Bring The Beat Back

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COLLUSIONS OF GRANDEUR - transfiguration

Music by ALEXA GRÆ

Performed by ALEXA GRÆ



COLLUSIONS OF GRANDEUR - transfiguration - meets in soliloquy and spectacle. A surrealist multimedia opera engaging stories manifested through body evolutions. Snapshots and micro-takes of time in quarantine. Messages of trans and queer identity, spiritual downloads, ADHD, blackness, and magic. Where internal truths collide with external myths and reverberate at the body - the body as messenger, as vehicle. Quarantine imposed societal stillness and within that stillness a global moment of many movements. Journeying the streets of New York on foot for months I was greeted with nuance and the pursuit of integration of selves. Moments collected and stored in the body as legacy, Afrofuturistic visions, justice strategies, and fantastical thoughts tethered by escapism to self-regulate. A work rooted in the collusion of the performance of humanity. Thrilling moments and sonic expressions evoke grand opera thrust into the multiverse. Vocalized joy poems bend genre and arias of longing serve as musical anchors. Symphonic soundscapes pair with house music to conjure meditative states and access portals to the dream realm. Video and live dance are elemental for the ascent to reach the spectacular. Marching through the protagonist's hyper euphoric internal dialogue - arranging moments into many revolutions. 

BIO
ALEXA GRÆ, (they/them) is a multi-disciplinary artist and composer. They performed in Isaac Pool’s 2022/2021 works Horizon Lies and Untitled Mood Lighting. In 2021 ALEXA performed in video excerpts for Same As Sister (This is NOT a Remount) and served as sound artist and composer for Jessie Young’s teeth (2022) and in Stephanie Acosta’s installation work Good Day God Damn (2021). ALEXA performed their work “eve’s witness: 2 soliloquies to the night” for the Crossroad Series by Pioneers Go East. They played the role of Alice in A.L.I.C.E in Hologram: part i. - (Maggie Mascal/thnku4sëx) for the QuaranStream Theatre Festival in 2020 and in 2018 they released their first studio song cycle titled ‘SEEN’ accompanied by ‘Sur La Nuit’ an operatic/electronic music video with creators Matthew Ozawa and Jon Wes. ALEXA has performed with Haymarket Opera Company, Madison Opera, Elements Contemporary Ballet, and the Savannah Philharmonic, scored for short films Searching for Isabelle (Stephanie Jeter), Let Go and Let God (Rashida KhanBey), and served as a musical contributor for Bring The Beat Back

COLLUSIONS OF GRANDEUR - transfiguration

Music by ALEXA GRÆ

Performed by ALEXA GRÆ



COLLUSIONS OF GRANDEUR - transfiguration - meets in soliloquy and spectacle. A surrealist multimedia opera engaging stories manifested through body evolutions. Snapshots and micro-takes of time in quarantine. Messages of trans and queer identity, spiritual downloads, ADHD, blackness, and magic. Where internal truths collide with external myths and reverberate at the body - the body as messenger, as vehicle. Quarantine imposed societal stillness and within that stillness a global moment of many movements. Journeying the streets of New York on foot for months I was greeted with nuance and the pursuit of integration of selves. Moments collected and stored in the body as legacy, Afrofuturistic visions, justice strategies, and fantastical thoughts tethered by escapism to self-regulate. A work rooted in the collusion of the performance of humanity. Thrilling moments and sonic expressions evoke grand opera thrust into the multiverse. Vocalized joy poems bend genre and arias of longing serve as musical anchors. Symphonic soundscapes pair with house music to conjure meditative states and access portals to the dream realm. Video and live dance are elemental for the ascent to reach the spectacular. Marching through the protagonist's hyper euphoric internal dialogue - arranging moments into many revolutions. 

BIO
ALEXA GRÆ, (they/them) is a multi-disciplinary artist and composer. They performed in Isaac Pool’s 2022/2021 works Horizon Lies and Untitled Mood Lighting. In 2021 ALEXA performed in video excerpts for Same As Sister (This is NOT a Remount) and served as sound artist and composer for Jessie Young’s teeth (2022) and in Stephanie Acosta’s installation work Good Day God Damn (2021). ALEXA performed their work “eve’s witness: 2 soliloquies to the night” for the Crossroad Series by Pioneers Go East. They played the role of Alice in A.L.I.C.E in Hologram: part i. - (Maggie Mascal/thnku4sëx) for the QuaranStream Theatre Festival in 2020 and in 2018 they released their first studio song cycle titled ‘SEEN’ accompanied by ‘Sur La Nuit’ an operatic/electronic music video with creators Matthew Ozawa and Jon Wes. ALEXA has performed with Haymarket Opera Company, Madison Opera, Elements Contemporary Ballet, and the Savannah Philharmonic, scored for short films Searching for Isabelle (Stephanie Jeter), Let Go and Let God (Rashida KhanBey), and served as a musical contributor for Bring The Beat Back

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