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Ballet Des Moines · 2022
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Composer · Collaborator
Beau Kenyon is a Paris-based composer and cultural strategist whose work moves between the concert hall, the gallery, and the civic sphere — always asking the same question: what becomes possible when we center empathy and curiosity to solve problems and create?
His 2022 ballet Of Gravity and Light, premiered by Ballet Des Moines in partnership with NASA and PBS, translates the astrophysics of the solar system into music, movement, and large-scale film projection. His next ballet, The Raven, premieres in October 2026 — a meditation on grief, self-isolation, and Edgar Allan Poe, again with choreographer Tom Mattingly and Ballet Des Moines. His sound installation for Accumulation of Dreams was recently on view at the Institute of Contemporary Art Boston (2024).
In 2017 he founded Oakley Collective for Arts + Research, a nonprofit consulting firm supporting cultural institutions across the US and Europe. He is on faculty at Northeastern University and serves on the board of the American Composers Forum.
Kenyon finds solutions by building healthy collaborative systems. Everything else follows from there.
Full BiographyAccumulation of Dreams
2024
Multimedia Installation
Institute of Contemporary Art Boston
ReachYou
2022
Augmented Reality + Participatory Artwork
Tribeca Film Festival Official Selection
Of Gravity and Light
2022
Contemporary Ballet + Concert Score
Des Moines Civic Center · World Premiere
Tell Me
2020
Multimedia Installation · Film Score
SITE Santa Fe
River Constellation
2019
Permanent Sound + Sculpture Installation
Des Moines Water Works Park