*A performance by Jane Franklin Dance in cooperation with Fine Art Photographer Fax Ayres
An everyday object can be irresistible. Beyond the intended purpose to get the job done, objects can represent a memory or merge in unlikely, whimsical combinations. Second Glance presented at Alexandria’s Athenaeum, the home of Northern Virginia Fine Arts Association, features excerpts from recent repertory and new work in cooperation with Fine Art Photographer Fax Ayres.
“Second Glance” heightens the perception of photography with movement and sound that leads to a greater understanding of both visual art and dance. Artist Fax Ayres combines the aesthetics of photography and painting. Still lifes are compiled by merging objects to inspire a comic sensibility and a delicate balance of opposition. Fax’s words about process and relationship are used to provide a backbone to inspire dance and movement in “Second Glance”. Find beauty in moments that draw a “Second Glance” performed by Jane Franklin Dance to music by Handel and Bach’s Suite #1 G Major Prelude; recorded by US Army Band clarinetist Martin Gold.
“The company shined when portraying inanimate surroundings…the dancers gave life to a parking lot by forming a vertical line with their bodies and hitting the floor in unison, evoking the heaviness of a line of cars. — the dance provided context to these otherwise ordinary places and activities.”
Nanda Srikantaiah, Dance MetroDC
The Athenaeum, home to Northern Virginia Fine Arts Association
201 Prince Street, Alexandria VA 22314
Performance Date/Time: Friday February 15, 2019 @ 7:30 pm
Tickets: $15 at https:/www.nvfaa.org/ or call 703-548-0035
About Fax Ayres
I grew up and went to elementary school in Connecticut, moved to Evanston, IL to attend Northwestern University, and earned an MBA from the Darden Graduate School of Business in Charlottesville, VA. I live in Charlottesville full time with my wife and three children. In my professional life, I have been a commercial pilot, financial analyst for a mutual fund company, CFO of the Thomas Jefferson Foundation, and started several small businesses in Charlottesville since moving here with my wife Andrea in 2000. I live here now with my wife and three children. I fly airplanes part time for several local business people and families, and devote the bulk of my time to photography.
