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BE A DOLL (Dexa) Video 2019 Alexa Dexa
Information on the Performance
- Work Title: Be A Doll
- Composer: Dexa Alexa
- Libretto: Libretto Text, Libretto Index
- Venue & Opera Company: Studio
- Recorded: 2019
- Type: Staged Opera Live
- Singers: Alexa Dexa
- Conductor:
- Orchestra:
- Stage Director: Alexa Dexa
- Costume Designer:
Information about the Recording
- Published by: Alexa Dexa
- Format: Streaming
- Quality Video: 4 Audio:4
- Subtitles: nosubs
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE
A woman struggles with her perfectionist and submissive conditioning in a world that commands her to BE A DOLL. Living in a dollhouse filled with functioning toy versions of household items, she reluctantly carries out the traditional role of woman as pretty plaything and keeper of the home. Each of her daily play routines are a reinforcement of gender-based norms in an overwhelming cycle of adulthood mimicking childhood games that mimic adulthood. Far from the promised picture of perfection, an existential game of hide and seek emerges between her and her neuroses. As the distinctions between woman and doll diminish, repetitive and intrusive thoughts, compulsive behaviors, and symptoms of generalized anxiety disorder surface.
Be a Doll is composed for solo vocalist performing choreographed play routines on musical and nonmusical toys with pre-programmed electronic sequences and live electronic processing in MaxMSP.
The development of Be a Doll received funding from OPERA America’s Opera Grants for Female Composers program, supported by the Virginia B. Toulmin Foundation.