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Following a successful March performance at The Modern Art Museum, Alexandra Farber, who performs principal roles with Texas Ballet Theater, returns to the famed gallery on Aug. 20 and 21.
The Fort Worth-based, multi-hyphenate artist will perform a new slate of choreographed dances inspired by the museum’s most recent exhibition, Women Painting Women. The performance includes three works of choreography, including excerpts from “The Way We Change,” Inside Voices”, and the premiere of her new piece, “Three Portraits.” Her latest performance will feature three female dancers, each pulling inspiration from one of the paintings in the exhibition (Marilyn Minter’s Red Flare, Alex Heilbron’s Labor of Thought, and Lorna Simpson’s Black Darkness). Additionally, the performances will feature music from a female-only slate of artists, including Roniit, Feist, and Regina Spektor.
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“It was a perfect relationship, of course, myself being a female choreographer and their exhibition being all female creators displaying female narratives,” Farber says. “Especially now, the femme narrative is so important to continue exploring as women face exploitation and misogyny like never before, hiding behind the idea that ‘we have come such a long way.’”
Farber hopes to inspire other female dancers and choreographers to strive for and actively participate in change that provides more equality and equity for women.. With the majority of her work being abstract – or at least abstract narratives — the stories can unfold in the viewer's mind based on their own life experiences. She wants her audience to interpret her work in a way that is most meaningful to them.
“I hope that exposure to art with themes of Jewish and femme-hood brings commonality to a viewer who might not have experienced those journeys in a way that makes them feel seen
or is uniting,” Farber says.
