21st-c. settings of 12th-c. Hildegard von Bingen's miracle play "Ordo Virtutum" by Brazelton in collaboration with composers Eve Beglarian, Lisa Bielawa and Elaine Kaplinsky; DAT soundtracks developed in part at Columbia University Computer Music Center (pictured left). Revised version commissioned and premiered by Lincoln Center Festival '98.

Kitty Brazelton first convened DADADAH in autumn 1989, for a dance concert by Rebecca Romero at Columbia Teachers' College. The idea was to have a flexible yet compact orchestra able to perform more elaborate and exacting compositions than her 4-piece, hard-rocking Hide the Babies was capable of. Dadadah was conceived as an occasional group, but it soon won a vast amount of Kitty's attention, even as she completed her DMA in composition from Columbia University and taught for Lincoln Center Institute.

Performer/composers Kitty Brazelton and Dafna Naphtali collaborate on a montage of extremes: textures hard/soft, noises white/red, harmony rooted/disembodied, silence.

Brazelton fronted rock band V, which became Hide the Babies. Together she and songwriting partner Joey Scarperia, heavy metal bassist of the NJ band Toyz, pursued the American rock dream, trying to get “signed”, building a following in nightclubs in Philadelphia and New York, making videos but the response was peripatetic. Sometimes wildly positive—contracts with a major talent agency and well-known producer, managers, physical trainers, and a song called I’m not a Virgin mysteriously lost to Madonna.